RT Review
T1 The Church and Humanity: The Life and Work of George Bell, 1883–1958. Edited by Andrew Chandler
JF The journal of theological studies
VO 64
IS 2
SP 814
OP 816
A1 Gorringe, Timothy 1946-
LA English
YR 2013
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1783733411
AB The twelve essays collected here began life in a series of lectures to mark the fiftieth anniversary of George Bell’s death in 1958. Five of them, in one way or another, as might be expected, look at Bell’s connections with Germany. Andrew Chandler sets the scene with a brief biography which begins by reminding us what an absolutely different world Bell inhabited as a young man. Well, not absolutely different perhaps. Les Desmoiselles d’Avignon and The Rite of Spring both appeared before the First World War and both remain startlingly ‘modern’. By the side of these the Masefield play which Bell commissioned for Canterbury looks extremely lame, though Bell was also a friend of T. S. Eliot and had a hand in commissioning Murder in the Cathedral.
K1 Rezension
DO 10.1093/jts/flt087