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Through a critical study of Philip Melanchthon’s 1521–22 lectures on 1 and 2 Corinthians, this essay evaluates his rhetorical method of reading and annotating Scripture. Building on a conventional analogy between ad fontes and sola scriptura, it investigates an equally operative analogy between consuetudo (linguistic usage) and what Melanchthon called the sermo or mos Scripturae, the “speech” or “usage of Scripture.” As a guide to the mos Scripturae, the early Corinthians lectures are an indispensable complement to his contemporary annotations on Romans. They reveal his attempt to integrate Luther’s “theology of the cross” into a theory of learned reading and shed light on the composition of the first systematic theology of the Lutheran faith, the Loci Communes, also published in 1521. Taken together as speeches, Paul’s letters to the Corinthians are unique enunciations of law and gospel, and unique examples of the “discourse of the cross.”
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This article proposes to analyze the corpus of writings constituting the “Querelle des Amyes” via the concept of “anti-eroticism.” This approach enables a clearer understanding of the highly paradoxical and multi-layered dynamics of these works, whose primary aim was to educate a female readership. Caught between subversion and conformity, texts that might at first appear starkly opposed turn out to be united in proposing an educational program which, while aporetic, offers valuable matter for reflection. On this view, the “Querelle des Amyes” corpus follows squarely in the footsteps of the broader “Querelle des Femmes,” although never showing a particular preference for either of the opposing camps. Being the key to an interpretation that is in effect no more than a problem or promise, Antéros unveils the (potential) nature of these texts’ meaning, which can only be understood as a tension between contradictory positions whose opposition is also the source of their significance.
Keywords: Querelle des Amyes, Antéros, Antérotisme, Paradoxe, Perfectionnement, Genre
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A Letter Concerning Toleration (1689) comprises John Locke’s mature thoughts on religious toleration. In it, Locke offers three political arguments against state religious coercion. He argues that it is impossible, impermissible, and inadvisable for the civil magistrate to enforce ‘true religion,’ which Locke defines as the ‘inward and full persuasion of the mind’ (Works, 6:10). Notwithstanding the various internecine conflicts within Christianity, conflicts which motivated Locke’s concern with toleration, all of the many-splendored sects of Christianity nonetheless share the notion that orthodoxy (correct belief) is required for salvation. Since the early days of Christianity, orthodoxy has represented the lowest-common-denominator obligation of adherents to Christianity. Locke’s political arguments in the Letter, at least in their first instance, assume an orthodox definition of “true religion.” This is likewise true of those who have either defended or criticized Locke’s arguments in the secondary literature. In contrast to Locke and his commentators, we will argue that the dominant characterization of “true religion” globally and throughout history does not concern correct religious belief as much as it concerns correct religious practice, or orthopraxy. Even though it has not received as much attention in the literature, Locke does discuss orthopraxy–what he calls ‘outward worship’–at length in the second half of the Letter (Works, 6:29-39). We will demonstrate how versions of all three political arguments for toleration can be redeployed to constrain the power of the magistrate within an orthoprax conception of true religion.
Keywords: John Locke, Toleration, Christianity, World Religions
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In 2016, the National Assembly adopted a new collective bargaining and dispute settlement regime for the municipal sector. Bill 110 can be described as exceptional in that it breaks with the rules governing collective labour relations in this sector which, since 1964, had been an integral part of the Labour Code. The new regime significantly modifies the method of appointing arbitrators called upon to settle disputes between municipal employers and trade unions, particularly those representing police officers and firefighters, and the guiding principles for determining working conditions for all categories of employees. In addition, it introduces several decision-making criteria that limit the discretionary margin of third-party decision-makers. The consequences of these particularities are analyzed in relation to the general framework established by the Code and give rise to a critical look at the mediation and arbitration tools available to the parties to help them settle their disputes, as well as a consideration on the legislative policy concerning labour issues.
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The article is dedicated to the reconstruction and recapitulation of Georg Simmel's relationship to architecture and to the aesthetics of the field of architecture. To this aim, a number of texts have been identified and discussed in Simmel's production that describe the urban dimension, as dimension of the city and of architecture as a modality of the construction of buildings, objects and places to inhabit the world and thus give it a certain configuration. From this discussion derives the plural field of oppositions in relation to the urban-architectural dimension, according to a view of Simmelian thought based on a kind of law of contrast, which can be exemplified in the following set of “oppositional pairs” found in Simmel's work: nature and culture (§ 2), hyperaesthesia and anaesthesia (§ 3), aesthetic “superadditum” and abstraction (§ 4), artistic will and practical functionality (§ 5), connecting and separating (§ 6), transience and eternity or, in architectural terms, temporary and solidity (§ 7), freedom and solitude - subjective culture and objective culture (§ 8). The paper proposes an attempt to trace this series of contrasts and to conclude with an initial assessment of the path traveled and some reflections on a possible convergence between aesthetic and social morphology (§ 9).
Keywords: Georg Simmel, Urban Aesthetics, Aesthetics of Architecture, Law of Contrast, Urban Sensorium
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This review of the literature draws on critical race theory to examine the lack of racial diversity among the teaching force in Canada. Several barriers including systemic racism, non-diverse hiring policies, and arduous certification requirements for immigrant teachers inhibit the racial diversity of the teaching force in several provinces. Manitoba is profiled because one of the province’s leading universities overhauled its Bachelor of Education admissions protocols to admit an increase in BIPOC applicants. Another leading university in the province has implemented policies to increase the number of Indigenous faculty members and pre-service teacher candidates. Understanding the effectiveness of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) policies in Manitoba could result in a more comprehensive understanding of the validity of EDI policies in general. Through a scoping review, this analysis unearthed 34 articles and documents published around the intersection of race, racial diversity, BIPOC educators, and White teachers. This article presents the findings of the literature review by exploring the merits and drawbacks of using critical race theory to elucidate potential barriers and opportunities for affirming linguistic, ethnic, cultural, and racial diversity in the Canadian school system.
Keywords: teacher diversity, internationally educated teachers, teachers of colour, Ontario school system, Manitoba school system, policy analysis
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Children are increasingly involved in citizen participation activities on various issues that concern them, such as those related to environmental protection, yet their citizenship often remains unrecognized. This article focuses on children exercising their rights and asserting them through involvement in legal proceedings before courts. While researchers and those who work with children have paid attention to children’s participation for at least three decades, opportunities for citizen participation for them are still limited and modes of participation are lacking. These weaknesses are particularly evident in the area of justice.In considering climate change litigation in which children are increasingly involved, we examine the extent to which, if at all, Canadian courts are adhering to the principles of participation and child-friendly justice. Have the courts been able to be true laboratories of citizen participation for children in their efforts to protect their rights? The findings, though preliminary for now given the limited number of decisions, are mixed and demonstrate the importance of the work of organizations that support children and the need for our courts to adapt to young petitioners in order to respect their rights.
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