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Victorian biblical scholarship in twentieth–century South Africa: Ramsden Balmforth's advocacy of New Testament higher criticism
(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 ...
The Quinlan opera company in Cape Town, 1912–1913
(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 ...
Universal salvation in a universal language? Trevor Steele's Kaj staros tre alte
(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 ...
‘Fundamentalism’ and ‘fundamentalist’ semantically considered: their lexical origins, early polysemy, and pejoration
(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 ...
The first scholarly South African interpretation of Wagner? Ramsden Balmforth's Fabian analysis of the Ring and Parsifal
(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
(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 ...
Norwegian–South African cultural resurgence during the second World War (1939–1345)
(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 ...
Settling accounts with Southern Baptist distinctives: James Howel Street's The Gauntlet
(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 ...
Motivating the great betrayal in Egon Fridell's Die Judastragödie
(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 ...
The radicalisation of a Swedish ecclesiastical critic of apartheid-Gunnar Helander
(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, ...