Browsing by Author "Hale, Frederick"
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The first scholarly South African interpretation of Wagner? Ramsden Balmforth's Fabian analysis of the Ring and Parsifal
Hale, Frederick (Taylor & Francis, 2013)2013 marks both the bicentenary of Richard Wagner’s birth and the centenary of performances of his Ring cycle in Cape Town, which contemporary critics hailed as a noteworthy advance in the cultural life of the Mother ... -
The formation of a conservative Catholic Intellectual: Douglas Francis Jerrold as a disciple of Hilaire Belloc
Hale, Frederick (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)That the highly prolific and versatileAnglo-French littérateur, historian, editor, and commentator Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953), like his friend and confrère Gilbert Keith Chesterton, made a profound impact on many Englishmen ... -
From a comedy of errors to tragedy: the cessation of Italian opera in Cape Town in 1877
Hale, Frederick (South African Society for Cultural History, 2016)The history of grand Italian opera (opera seria) in South Africa remains largely unwritten. With regard to the pre-Union period, the few scholarly investigations into this topic have revealed that European touring companies ... -
‘Fundamentalism’ and ‘fundamentalist’ semantically considered: their lexical origins, early polysemy, and pejoration
Hale, Frederick (OASIS, 2013)The words fundamentalist (as both a noun and an adjective) and fundamentalism were coined in 1920 within the Northern Baptist Convention when that and other American Protestant denominations were experiencing theological ... -
Holy Toledo: Muslim-Christian Relations and Catholic Nationalism in Vicente Blasco Ibáñez's The Shadow of the Cathedral
Hale, Frederick (Association for the Study of Religion in Southern Africa, 2017)Although the eminent Spanish novelist and anticlericalist Vicente Blasco Ibánez (1867-1928) received little scholarly attention outside his homeland for several decades, he gained significantly greater international notice ... -
Literary criticism from a Cape Town pulpit: Ramsden Balmforth's explications of modern novels as parables revealing ethical and spiritual principles
Hale, Frederick (AOSIS, 2017)Literary criticism evolved slowly in southern Africa. One of the first commentators to write about this topic was the Unitarian minister, Ramsden Balmforth (1861-1941), a native of Yorkshire and Unitarian minister who ... -
Motivating the great betrayal in Egon Fridell's Die Judastragödie
Hale, Frederick (Sabinet, 2013)In 1923 the eminent Viennese philosopher, playwright, cultural historian, and theatre critic Egon Friedell turned to what by then had become an evergreen theme in European literary history by publishing his Judastragödie ... -
Norwegian–South African cultural resurgence during the second World War (1939–1345)
Hale, Frederick (South African Society for Cultural History, 2013)Although residents of Norwegian birth or ancestry were never a large ethnic group in South Africa, they made determined efforts to preserve aspects of their cultural heritage. After Norway was occupied by forces of the ... -
The Quinlan opera company in Cape Town, 1912–1913
Hale, Frederick (Association of Friends of the National Library of South Africa, 2013)The performance of serious concert music in Cape Town evolved significantly during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but during that period much of it was provided by touring European musicians.1 This ... -
The radicalisation of a Swedish ecclesiastical critic of apartheid-Gunnar Helander
Hale, Frederick (Scriber Editorial Systems, 2011)From the 1950s through the 1980s, both the government of Sweden and various non-governmental agencies in that country stood at the forefront of the international campaign against apartheid. To a considerable extent, ... -
Raising prophetic voices on public issues: the international baptist heritage
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Ramsden Balmforth on the reformation and the evolution of Christianity: a post-protestant South African perspective
Hale, Frederick (The Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2017)Theologians and historians of the Protestant Reformation have often interpreted it in terms that are strongly determined by their own concerns. One such writer was Ramsden Balmforth (1862-1942), a prominent Unitarian ... -
Satirising the Norwegian language conflict: Gabriel Scott's Babels taarn contextually reconsidered
Hale, Frederick (University College of London, 2013)Gabriel Scott’s comedy Babels taarn (Babel Tower), first performed at the National Theatre in Kristiania in 1911, satirises the language controversy that was raging in Norway at the time. The play is regarded as important ... -
Settling accounts with Southern Baptist distinctives: James Howel Street's The Gauntlet
Hale, Frederick (Cape Town Baptist Seminary, 2013)James Howell Street has been lauded for crafting in fiction one of the most insightful portrayals of the twentieth-century Protestant ministry. His pastorates in the Southern Baptist Convention were quite brief, but they ... -
Stigmatising faith? Differing modes of sanctification in Gian-Carlo Menotti's The Saint of Bleecker Street
Hale, Frederick (Department of Religious Studies and Arabic, University of South Africa, 2016)Although best known for his Christmas opera Amahl and the Night Visitors (which is often asserted to be the most frequently performed music drama of the twentieth century), Gian-Carlo Menotti composed other operas in which ... -
The Gospel contra Nietzsche: a South African literary critique of Wille zur Macht
Hale, Frederick (University of the Free State, 2017)A century of scholarship has shed countless photons of light on the reception of Friedrich Nietzsche's ideas in numerous countries. Still largely unilluminated, however, are South African reactions to his scepticism and ... -
Universal salvation in a universal language? Trevor Steele's Kaj staros tre alte
Hale, Frederick (Brill, 2013)Extensive secularisation in Europe and several other parts of the world in recent decades has not diminished the attractiveness of Jesus as a theme in contemporary fiction internationally. Fictional biographies of him ... -
Victorian biblical scholarship in twentieth–century South Africa: Ramsden Balmforth's advocacy of New Testament higher criticism
Hale, Frederick (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2013)Debates in South Africa over Biblical scholarship have often been a subject of historical inquiry. John Colenso’s challenges to the Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch are well known, and in the Dutch Reformed tradition ...