Opera through Varying Theological Lenses

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" Opera through Varying Theological Lenses "
Frederick Hale

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1082980
Doc. No	:	LA126609
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15743012-02203008‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Frederick Hale
Title & Author	:	Opera through Varying Theological Lenses [Article]\ Frederick Hale
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Religion and Theology
Date	:	2015
Volume/ Issue Number	:	22/3-4
Page No	:	301–327
Abstract	:	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 continental European perspectives, many theological perspectives on the man and his operas in the English-speaking world have remained unilluminated. The present article seeks to redress aspects of that neglect by examining how two theologically educated British Nonconformists, namely P.T. Forsyth and Ramsden Balmforth (the latter of whose ministerial career was in Cape Town from 1897 until 1937) understood Wagner’s opera about the Holy Grail, Parsifal. It is argued that Forsyth’s interpretation was informed in large measure by his evolving understanding of the meaning of the Atonement and redemption, while Balmforth’s was shaped to a considerable degree by his Fabian socialism. 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 continental European perspectives, many theological perspectives on the man and his operas in the English-speaking world have remained unilluminated. The present article seeks to redress aspects of that neglect by examining how two theologically educated British Nonconformists, namely P.T. Forsyth and Ramsden Balmforth (the latter of whose ministerial career was in Cape Town from 1897 until 1937) understood Wagner’s opera about the Holy Grail, Parsifal. It is argued that Forsyth’s interpretation was informed in large measure by his evolving understanding of the meaning of the Atonement and redemption, while Balmforth’s was shaped to a considerable degree by his Fabian socialism.
Descriptor	:	British Nonconformists
Descriptor	:	Fabian Society
Descriptor	:	Parsival
Descriptor	:	Richard Wagner
Descriptor	:	spiritual regeneration
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15743012-02203008‬