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View article: From Redemptive Suffering to Redemptive Reconciliation in the Authorship of Johanna Spyri
From Redemptive Suffering to Redemptive Reconciliation in the Authorship of Johanna Spyri Open
That Johanna Spyri (1827-1901), best known for her Heidi books, gained renown as one of Switzerland’s most popular and widely translated authors is beyond dispute. The two companion volumes Heidi’s Lehr- und Wanderjahre and Heidi kann brau…
View article: Ramsden Balmforth on the Reformation and the Evolution of Christianity: A Post-Protestant South African Perspective
Ramsden Balmforth on the Reformation and the Evolution of Christianity: A Post-Protestant South African Perspective Open
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 minister and public in…
View article: American Christians for and against Parsifal: Debating the Holy Grail Opera in New York
American Christians for and against Parsifal: Debating the Holy Grail Opera in New York Open
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 that such eff…
View article: Literary criticism from a Cape Town pulpit: Ramsden Balmforth’s explications of modern novels as parables revealing ethical and spiritual principles
Literary criticism from a Cape Town pulpit: Ramsden Balmforth’s explications of modern novels as parables revealing ethical and spiritual principles Open
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 emigrated to Cape Tow…
View article: Holy Toledo: Muslim-Christian Relations and Catholic Nationalism in Vicente Blasco Ibáñez's The Shadow of the Cathedral
Holy Toledo: Muslim-Christian Relations and Catholic Nationalism in Vicente Blasco Ibáñez's The Shadow of the Cathedral Open
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 in the latter ha…
View article: Stigmatising faith? Differing modes of sanctification in Gian-Carlo Menotti's The Saint of Bleecker Street
Stigmatising faith? Differing modes of sanctification in Gian-Carlo Menotti's The Saint of Bleecker Street Open
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 he explored the …
View article: FORECASTING THE FUTURE OF RELIGION IN THE 1920s: RAMSDEN BALMFORTH’S POST-ORTHODOX PROGNOSTICATIONS
FORECASTING THE FUTURE OF RELIGION IN THE 1920s: RAMSDEN BALMFORTH’S POST-ORTHODOX PROGNOSTICATIONS Open
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 issues affecting Sout…
View article: Nils Astrup and indigenous African cultures: A study in evolving missionary attitudes
Nils Astrup and indigenous African cultures: A study in evolving missionary attitudes Open
It has often been alleged that during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries European missionaries evinced little respect for the indigenous peoples whom they evangelised and otherwise sought to influence through Christian ministry. Consid…
View article: Interpreting luguru religious practice through colonialist eyes: Child sacrifice and East African dance in Brett Young's The Crescent Moon
Interpreting luguru religious practice through colonialist eyes: Child sacrifice and East African dance in Brett Young's The Crescent Moon Open
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 in little-read …
View article: Forecasting the future of religion in the 1920s: Ramsden Balmforth's post-orthodox prognostications
Forecasting the future of religion in the 1920s: Ramsden Balmforth's post-orthodox prognostications Open
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 issues affecting Sout…