Browsing by Author "a18b5159-dc76-44e9-8793-2c28b048f2ce"
Now showing items 1-10 of 10
-
Debating the fundamentals of the faith among South African baptists
Hale, Frederick (Cape Town Baptist Seminary, 2012)During the 1920s two words recently coined in the United States of America (where they had immediate currency among Baptists), “fundamentalist” and “fundamentalism”, entered the lexicon of English in both the United Kingdom ... -
Forecasting the future of religion in the 1920s: Ramsden Balmforth's post-orthodox prognostications
Hale, Frederick (The Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2015)Standing at the apogee of post-Protestant theological liberalism, the scholarly Unitarian minister Ramsden Balmforth, who served the Unitarian Church in Cape Town from 1897 until 1937, responded to a broad spectrum of ... -
Interpreting Luguru religious practice through Colonialist eyes: Child Sacrifice and East African Dance in Brett Young’s The Crescent Moon
Hale, Frederick (AJOL, 2015)Public perceptions of indigenous African religious life have been heavily influenced by its representation in imaginative literature and film, both before and after serious scholarly investigations yielded detailed analyses ... -
Italian grand opera at the Cape of Good Hope : the 1875 and 1876 Cagli seasons
Hale, Frederick (South African Society for Cultural History, 2015)The history of Italian grand opera (opera seria) remains a woefully underexplored topic in the cultural historiography of South Africa. The present article is intended to fill one of the many gaps by exploring the first ... -
A missionary racing against civilisation? Nils Astrup's 1889 Trek To the Limpopo
Hale, Frederick (NLSA, 2015) -
Opera through varying theological lenses: religious nonconformists interpret Wagner's Parsifal
Hale, Frederick (Koninklijke Brill NV, 2015)Although a great deal of scholarly attention has been devoted to Richard Wagner and his renowned works since the nineteenth century, and considerable attention has been given to Christian interpretations of them from ... -
Public issues perceived from the theological left flank: the social ethics of Ramsden Balmforth in the Union of South Africa
Hale, Frederick (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2012)For decades research into the history of Christian social ethics in South Africa has illuminated responses within a broad spectrum of major denominations to public issues, but has thus far shed considerably less light ... -
Reading the Bible as literature: a key dimension of spiritual formation for the literarily inclined
Hale, Frederick (Cape Town Baptist Seminary, 2012)Spiritual formation is introduced as an inclusive concept which encompasses various dimensions of the development of personal spirituality. For many Christians, this obviously includes deepening their comprehension of the ... -
Sweden's welfare state at a turning point
Hale, Frederick (Daniel Mark Redmond, 2012) -
A Whale of a fight against Hitler: Norwegian-South African Whalers in the Second World War
Hale, Frederick (NLSA, 2015)The article discusses the Norwegian-South African whalers' participation in World War II against Germany and Axis Powers, including military recruitment of whalers in Durban, South Africa. An overview of the impact that ...