Table of Contents
- Florence Nightingale's Spiritual Journey: Biblical Annotations,
Sermons, and Journal Notes: Collected Works of Florence
Nightingale, Volume 2, edited by Lynn McDonald
- Acknowledgements
- Dramatis Personae
- List of Illustrations
- A Précis of the Collected Works
- Introduction to Volume 2
- An Overview of Nightingale's Spiritual Journey
- Theological Views
- The Character of God the Father
- Jesus the Son and Saviour
- The Holy Spirit
- Atonement and Forgiveness
- Sin and the Problem of Evil
- Miracles and Signs
- Eternity, Judgment, Heaven and Hell
- The Bible
- The Sacraments
- Unitarian and Wesleyan Connections
- The Church of England
- Comparative Religion
- The Practice of Religion
- Christian Duty
- Public Health Care as Christian Duty
- The Proper Approach to Prayer
- Devotional Reading
- Missionary Work
- Christian Feminism
- Nursing as a Divine Vocation
- Practical Mysticism
- Identification with Religious Figures
- Her Voices
- Blessings and Peace
- Nightingale's Unpublished and Published Writing on
Religion
- Conclusions: Saint, ""Lesser Saint"" or No Saint at All?
- Nightingale's Biblical Annotations
- Key to Editing
- Introduction
- Old Testament
- Epistle Dedicatory
- Genesis
- The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus
- The Third Book of Moses, Called Leviticus
- The Fourth Book of Moses, Called Numbers
- The Fifth Book of Moses, Called Deuteronomy
- The First Book of Samuel, Otherwise Called, The First Book of
Kings
- The Second Book of Samuel, Otherwise Called, The Second Book of
Kings
- The First Book of the Kings, Commonly Called, The Third Book of
the Kings
- The Second Book of the Kings, Commonly Called, The Fourth Book
of the Kings
- The First Book of the Chronicles
- The Second Book of the Chronciles
- The Book of Job
- The Book of Psalms
- The Proverbs
- Ecclesiastes; or, The Preacher
- The Book of the Prophet Isaiah
- The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah
- The Lamentations of Jeremiah
- The Book of the Prophet Ezekiel
- The Book of Daniel
- Hosea
- Joel
- Amos
- Micah
- Nahum
- Zechariah
- Malachi
- Pages Following the Old Testament
- New Testament
- Matthew
- Mark
- Luke
- John
- The Acts of the Apostles
- The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans
- The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians
- The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians
- The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Galatians
- The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Ephesians
- The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Philippians
- The Epistle of Paul to the Colossians
- The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Thessalonians
- The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the
Thessalonians
- The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy
- The Epistle of Paul to Titus
- The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews
- The General Epistle of James
- The First Epistle General of Peter
- The Second Epistle General of Peter
- The First Epistle General of John
- The Second Epistle General of John
- The Revelation of St. John the Divine
- The End of the Bible
- Annotations from the Jubilee Bible
- Sermons and Journal Notes
- Sermons
- Introduction
- ""Strait Is the Gate""
- ""Be Ye Perfect""
- ""Lord, to Whom Shall We Go?""
- Letters and Notes about Sermons
- Journal Notes
- Short, Dated Notes on Religion (1844-77)
- 1844
- 1845
- 1848
- 1850
- 1851
- 1852
- 1854
- 1855
- 1856
- 1857
- 1858
- Early 1860s
- 1864
- 1865
- 1866
- 1867
- 1868
- 1869
- 1870
- 1871
- 1872
- 1873
- 1874
- 1876-1877
- 1877 Diary
- Journal Notes
- Short Notes on Religion (1878-1904)
- 1878
- 1887
- 1888
- 1889
- 1890
- 1891
- 1892
- 1893
- 1894
- 1895
- 1896
- 1897
- 1898
- 1899
- Undated Late Notes
- Last Dated Notes (1900-1904)
- 1900
- 1901
- 1904
- Bibliography
- Index
About the Author
Lynn McDonald is a professor of sociology at the University of
Guelph, Ontario, a former president of the National Action
Committee on the Status of Women, Canadas largest womens
organisation, and a former Member of Parliament. She herself has
been a public health advocate. As a Member of the Canadian
Parliament, she succeeded in getting the Non-smokers Health Act
adopted in 1988 as a private members bill. It not only made
Parliamentary history (aside from the fact that McDonald was the
first Ms in the House of Commons) but it also made Canada a leader
in the tobacco wars. She is the author of several books on women
theorists.
Reviews
``The Nightingale project ranks with both the Gladstone diaries and
the Disraeli letters as a major undertaking in the field of
Victorian-era scholarship, and therefore is of surpassing value to
historians of the period, as well as to general readers.'' -- C.
Brad Faught, Tyndale University College, Toronto -- Anglican and
Episcopal History, Vol. 81 (1), March 2012, 201204
``The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale is an extremely
ambitious project that is a great service to scholarship. Every
general academic library should own the complete set. It pulls
together material that has been hitherto diffused across more than
150 collections, some of them private ones, in places ranging from
Germany to India and Japan, as well as numerous English-speaking
countries.'' -- Timothy Larsen -- Books and Culture,
November/December 2008, 200901
``The details and explications of her views...are presented in
carefully annotated and insightful editorial discussions....[These
volumes] provide a more complete understanding of this complex
woman, extending our appreciation of her much beyond the `The Lady
with the Lamp' legend.... The product of rigorous scholarship, of
meticulous historical research--and a labour of love.'' -- Canadian
Bulletin of Medical History, Volume 21/1, 2004, 200510
``[I]t is clear that this is an academic project of the highest
importance and integrity. It will have an impact on the work of
scholars far beyond the immediate field of health history.
Nightingale's interests were wide-ranging and her correspondence
included some of the leading thinkers of her day....The editing of
these volumes is exemplary. Every reference has been followed up,
including the identification of minor dramatis personae. Important
personalities are accorded short biographies. On every page there
are biblical allusions, which are faithfully identified. Each
thematic section has an introductory essay and these are amplified
by a full outline of Nightingale's life and thought in volume 1.
This project makes a major contribution to scholarship which will
be of permanent value.'' -- Helen Mathers, University of Sheffield,
Ecclesiastical History
``The Collected Works will allow us to see for the first time the
full complexity of this extraordinary and multifacted woman. It
will be a tool of enormous value not only to Nightgale scholars and
biographers, but also to historians of a wide variety of aspects of
Victorian society: war, the army, public health nursing, religion,
India, women's issues and so on.'' -- Mark Bostridge -- Times
Literary Supplement, January 10, 2003, 200310
