Églises et sanctuaires d'Alsace, mille ans d'architecture sacrée [par] Robert Will, Théodore Rieger

In 1918 Alsace was restored to French rule after almost fifty years of annexation into the German Empire. Its return was greeted with enthusiasm in Alsace and across France, but re...

This chapter discusses the remaking of the Alsatian landscape after 1918, and considers the establishment of the new boundary line, the redesign of the region’s towns, and the fixi...

Chapter 4, “Theodore of Mopsuestia: The Twelve as Christian Scripture,” considers the meaning Theodore draws from the texts of the Twelve Prophets as Christian scripture. Whereas s...

The introduction offers a brief overview of Alsace’s return to France, situates the study within the literature on nations, nationalisms, and borders, and introduces the major argu...

Chapter 2, “Theodore of Mopsuestia: The Twelve within the First Age,” identifies the primary role Theodore assigns the Twelve Prophets in their ministry to Old Testament Israel as ...

A crucial forum for many of the debates about reintegration was politics. Equally, political life in interwar Alsace was dominated by questions posed by return. This chapter charts...

The end of the First World War triggered the return of Alsace to France, and celebrations in Paris and Alsace marked the region’s ‘homecoming’. Yet return proved trickier than expe...

This concluding chapter, “Theodore and Cyril in Dialogue: Analysis and Implications,” returns to charges surveyed in the Introduction, namely, that Theodore—and by extension Antioc...