The 4th-century teacher, Didymus the Blind, enjoyed a fruitful
life as head of an episcopally-sanctioned school in Alexandria.
Author of numerous dogmatic treatises and exegetical works, Didymus
was ...considered a stalwart defender of the Nicene faith in his
heyday. He duly attracted the likes of Jerome and Rufinus to his
school. Contemporary scholarship has focused most of its attention
on understanding him as an exegete, especially focusing on his
exegetical vocabulary and the driving assumptions behind his
particular method of reading Scripture. The theological literature
has been somewhat neglected. In this study, Jonathan Hicks makes
the claim that Didymus's exegesis can only be understood in all its
fullness in light of his theological commitments. His acute
differences with Theodore of Mopsuestia on the proper reading of
the prophet Zechariah cannot be understood as merely
methodological. Animating Didymus's reading of the prophet is a
lively understanding of Trinitarian missions. Recognizing the
comings of the Son and the Spirit to Israel is essential in
locating the prophet's message properly within the one divine
economy of revelation and salvation that culminates in the
Incarnation of Christ. Hicks argues that Didymus is instructive
here for today's Church both on the level of praxis (we should
adopt some of his reading practices) and on the level of theoria
(his Trinitarian account of Scripture's origin and ends is
fundamental to a fully Christian understanding of what Scripture
is).
Progress in virtue and perfection are central themes in Didymus the Blind. This article analyzes a series of relevant passages about the concept of perfection in virtue in the writings that have come ...down to us from the Alexandrian theologian and exegete, in order to clarify its articulations and briefly compare it with the notion of epektasis or endless progress, illustrated by other authors from the East, chief among whom is Saint Gregory of Nyssa. While some recent commentators have argued that Didymus himself was a proponent of epektasis, his texts reveal that he most often inclined to see spiritual perfection in a static way, closely associated to a final limit.
Touch as an aesthetic experience Lauwrens, Jenni
Journal of visual art practice,
10/2/2019, 2019-10-02, Letnik:
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Touch is gaining attention in sensory studies and in art practice where the over-emphasis on sight and visuality in academic discourse is increasingly been questioned. The exhibition The Blind ...Astronomer (2013) by South African artist Berco Wilsenach participated in this larger critique of visuality by inviting audiences to engage with the works through the sense of touch. In particular, the artworks exposed the limitations of the spectatorial epistemology of modern Western scientific discourse. In this article, I explore some of the ways in which the exhibition questioned long-held assumptions about the primacy of vision in Western science and aesthetics, the relationship between touch and vision, and touch as an aesthetic experience. The eviction of touch from the gallery and museum as well as from what is considered to count as aesthetic experience has led to an absence of language adequate to describing the complex nature of aesthetic touch. I suggest that first-hand accounts of blind peoples' haptic experiences with art, combined with insights gained from research in psychology as well as experiments by artists who encourage tactile encounters with their work can enrich and enhance how we understand an aesthetic experience that is simultaneously visual and tactile.
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BFBNIB, DOBA, IZUM, KILJ, NUK, PILJ, PNG, SAZU, UILJ, UKNU, UL, UM, UPUK
It is well established that meeting physical activity (PA) guidelines has a range of physical and mental health benefits. For people who are blind and vision impaired (BVI) there may be additional ...benefits in terms of social inclusion and the prevention of sight deterioration.
This study aimed to quantify PA levels, barriers to and motivators for PA in adults who are BVI.
PA levels, perceived barriers to, and motivators for PA were measured via questionnaire of 310 self-identifying BVI adults (n = 310 mean age = 29.77 ± 11.37, 55.8% male).
PA levels were low, with 21.7% meeting PA guidelines. Median PA levels were not statistically significantly different between different age groups. There was no significant difference between genders, though mean days of PA for males was 0.382 days lower than for females.
There was a significant difference between PA levels between the “no vision” (B1) and “useful vision” (B3) groups (p = 0.027), and the “no vision” (B1) and the “low vision” (B2) groups (p = 0.003). Transport (54.8%) and lack of access to enjoyable activities (47.0%) were the most commonly cited barriers, while “to relax” (36.4%) and “to have fun” (35.6%) were most commonly cited as very important motivators.
This study provides a valuable insight into the low levels of PA that persist amongst adults with BVI. Future research should seek to gain a deeper understanding of the PA barriers, motivators and facilitators in this cohort.
Christian Reading shifts the assumption that study of the Bible must be about the content of the Bible or aimed at confessional projects of religious instruction. Blossom Stefaniw focuses on the ...lesson transcripts from the Tura papyri, which reveal verbatim oral classroom discourse, to show how biblical texts were used as an exhibition space for the traditional canon of general knowledge about the world. Stefaniw demonstrates that the work of Didymus the Blind in the lessons reflected in the Tura papyri was similar to that of other grammarians in late antiquity: articulating the students' place in time, their position in the world, and their connection to their heritage. But whereas other grammarians used revered texts like Homer and Menander, Didymus curated the cultural patrimony using biblical texts: namely, the Psalms and Ecclesiastes. By examining this routine epistemological and pedagogical work carried out through the Bible, Christian Reading generates a new model of the relationship of Christian scholarship to the pagan past.
Nadeem Aslam's The Blind Man's Garden (2013) writes back against the dominant discourses of race that have come to the fore during the "war on terror". It aims to affectively engage its readers by ...forging a relay between "familiar" and "unfamiliar" feelings. Contrary to popular conceptions of postcolonial literatures as resistance, The Blind Man's Garden mobilizes "potentially novelettish or TV movie-like" narrative devices and the "familiar" feelings that they evoke - the elements often deployed in affect-based late-capitalist culture. However, it moves away from such melodramatic conventions. While providing emotional access to "unfamiliar" feelings, it activates our common experience of post-9/11 media culture, and encloses collective anger in the personal script of shame and anger. Aslam thus provides a conduit for various "unfamiliar" feelings experienced by marginalized peoples in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Through this transfer of affect, Aslam's text attests to the breadth of textual strategies of postcolonial literatures.
Purpose: To determine the causes of severe visual impairment and blindness in children in schools for the blind in the city of Bangalore, Karnataka and to determine the error of inclusion and ...exclusion from these schools. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study. Children in four schools for the blind were subjected to a detailed ophthalmic evaluation. The World Health Organization Program for Prevention of Blindness low-vision form was used to collect data. To know the educational background of children with visual disability of 40% or more (best-corrected visual acuity of ≤6/24 in the better eye), not in schools for the blind, we collected data by telephonic conversation after procuring their phone numbers from our low-vision clinic. Results: One-hundred-seventy-eight children were examined. The major site of anomaly causing blindness in 31% of children was optic nerve, followed by retina (24%), cornea (23%), and whole globe (22%). Avoidable blindness was 35.42%. Thirteen percent of the children with no visual disability were incorrectly enrolled in blind schools. We were able to contact 92 children with a visual disability of ≥40%. Seventy-eight children (84.78%) attended regular schools; these schools were bereft of a specially trained teacher to look after the needs of the blind. Conclusion: Avoidable blindness is still a cause for concern. Children should undergo eye-examination before being enrolled in schools for the blind to avoid errors of inclusion. Though integrated education for children with vision disability is a good approach, it requires teachers trained in teaching skills particular to blindness. Education for the visually impaired in India needs a major revision.
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DOBA, IZUM, KILJ, NUK, PILJ, PNG, SAZU, SIK, UILJ, UKNU, UL, UM, UPUK
Abstract
With the joining of digital media and Internet, the application of the conversion of cross-media information becomes wider and wider, which makes the integration of multimedia information ...possible. The transformation of image information to sound information is also in the stage of exploration. It can be applied to all aspects of the industry. Most importantly, it can be used to guide the blind. In this paper, an improved image-to-sound algorithm based on original method is proposed to judge whether there are obstacles in front of the road and test the sound segment through human ears. Among different mapping methods, the highest accuracy can reach 84.2%, which is much higher than the original method. At the same time, an objective evaluation algorithm is designed based on the neural network, which can replace the human ear to judge a large number of image information, and the matching degree of this model can reach 68%.
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