Anglican Theological Review, July 1st, 2004
Florence Nightingale: The Making of a Radical Theologian. By Val Webb. St. Louis, Mo.: Chalice Press, 2002. xxiii + 363 pp. $34.99 (cloth). In elementary school, I was told the stoiy of Florence Nightingale, "the lady with the lamp." VaI Webb expands that story and provides us with the theological and spiritual biography of this woman who changed the face of nursing and hospital care, sought to find ways to provide sanitary living conditions in India, and fought for the right of women to follow God's calling. She was decidedly more than what we were taught. Webb does an excellent job in pres...
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