Val Webb has taught Religious Studies at the University of Minnesota and Augsburg College in the United States and at Whitley College, Melbourne, Murdoch University, Perth and Charles Sturt University, Sydney. She has written eight books, including In Defense of Doubt: An Invitation to Adventure (Chalice Press, 1995), Why We're Equal: Introducing Feminist Theology (Chalice Press, 1999), and Florence Nightingale: The Making of a Radical Theologian (Chalice Press, 2002).
"Val Webb's carefully crafted study of Florence Nightingale's religious works, her letters and diaries, reveals some surprising and little known aspects of this great nineteenth-century woman pioneer reformer. Her posthumously published writings are evidence of a strong religious vocation and of unexpectedly radical theological thought, resonating more with contemporary feminist theology and process thought than with the Victorian ideas of her own days. This book shows the complex personality, brilliant mind, and deeply religious motivation of this God-intoxicated woman, who is both a mystic and a militant, an original thinker and great innovative doer."
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