Browsing Faculty of Theology by Author "23976802 - Hale, Frederick Allen"
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American Christians for and against Parsifal: Debating the Holy Grail Opera in New York
Hale, Frederick Allen (AOSIS, 2017)The appropriateness of Christian themes in the performing arts has often been debated. Defenders have argued that various media, including drama, can serve as instruments of spiritual edification, while critics have contended ... -
Contours of pacificism: Ramsden Balmforth's advocacy of peace in the union of South Africa and beyond
Hale, F. (Sabinet, 2013)Among the many dimensions of Christian pacifism in South Africa which remain underexplored is the ministry of the Unitarian minister Ramsden Balmforth (1861-1941). For approximately four decades beginning shortly after his ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
A missionary racing against civilisation? Nils Astrup's 1889 Trek To the Limpopo
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...