Theology of Wagner’s Ring Cycle. Vol. 1: The Genesis and Development of the Tetralogy and the Appropriation of Sources, Artists, Philosophers, and Theologians. Vol. 2: Theological and Ethical Issues. By Richard H. Bell
A mere fleeting knowledge of Richard Wagner’s music drama The Ring of the Nibelung and of (Christian) theology may suggest that the two make strange bedfellows. The opera’s background based on Icelandic sagas—albeit used only sparingly—has the Norse gods Donner, Froh, Freia, and the philandering fat...
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Oxford University Press
2020
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2020, Volume: 71, Issue: 2, Pages: 963-965 |
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