Comes to life, with the help of artificial intelligence, Apostle Paul in the context of educational project It aims, based on the texts of his letters, to convey to the general public his messages not only about the period in which he lived but also with contemporary issues concerning human questions over time. In the first video, released by the project named Followingapostolepaul, the Apostle Paul appears with gray bearded, brown eyes and wrinkled face.
She is dressed in a white long garment, brown belt and cloak and is first portrayed sitting on a wooden boat with fabric sails directed from Athens to ancient Corinth. There he landed at the port of the Keni, meets passers -by, talks to them on the stone roads and convey the first messages of Christianity. Its form came with the use of artificial intelligence and was based on the Apostle’s hagiographies and the descriptions mentioned in ancient texts.
“The goal of our efforts is to make it possible for the Apostle Paul to talk to the public. To take everyone in the hand and travel with him, to discuss, to see Corinth, the Philippi and the other stations of his course, just as they were in the past. At the same time it can answer very modern, critical questions about human freedom, our body, mental health, How one can really be happy“Sotirios Despotis, Professor of the Department of Social Theology and Religion at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (EKPA). He clarified that the project is under his own auspices, with people who are active in technology, art and social media.
Asked what was the reason for the idea that began, the professor placed it a decade ago, when the house he used to rented in Athens was rented by Koreans. ‘I asked them Because they came to Greece and replied that they wanted to talk about the Bible. Then I wondered how it is ever possible to come to Athens to get to know the Athenians the Apostle Paul and the New Testament in general, the original of which is written in Greek … I do not know under the umbrella of what organization these people arrived here from Seoul, but this was done.
At the same time, he said, they are organized at high cost scientific conferences and meetings that have no impact on the general public, while at the same time there has been a great deal of interest in recent years by Americans and Koreans, especially for the personality of the Apostle Paul. ‘From the position of President at the Patriarchal Foundation of Missionary East under the auspices of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, my activity in the Korean mission And my involvement with the Koreans and the New Zealanders, I have found that there is now a very strong interest of these people to discover the Apostle Paul.
We should not, after all, forget that, whether we want it or we do not want it, the bases of Western culture and the importance of individual rights are due to him. It was Paul who gave the human face of great value and said this shocking, even today: that there is no male and female, there is no slave and free, but we are all one, “he said.
Mr Despotis emphasized that Western culture gives enormous value to the individual, to the face, to every human being, especially in the postmodern era independent of his particularity while expressing the view that “If Paul came to today’s Athens he would not teach the Theological School but to Panteion University Social and Political Sciences or in the Medical School. “
As he characteristically stated, “Paul’s Christianity is not only related to metaphysics, what the soul will do when flying to heaven, but how a political attitude is formed and how one can really become happy.”
“Paul’s main model is that ultimately our organization as a city makes sense when we reverse the pyramid, that is, when we stop relying on one another, imitating the model of Christ who sacrificed himself. That is why Paul, while having all his diplomas and rich resume, all he is proud of is his injured body, his vulnerable body, He also has the wounds he carries on him. So, in essence, Paul’s message is that all this policy, as built on power, in power in sovereignty, has an expiration date. On the contrary, it is important for people to invest in another way of organizing them, in small communities governed by a love not like the one that has evolved into a abused term today, but into a sacrificial love in the sense of supply and not the consumption of others. “
Back to the project FollowingApostolePaulamong other things, is to speak the language of young people -which is why the venture is also promoted on social media -to present Paul’s course using technology, to link its preaching discourse to the needs of the modern world, to create material in Greek and English. In the project team of Project, Mr. Despotis is a scientific manager while Iphigenia Kapsomenaki – Research and Development Engineer – Project Manager, Eleftherios Betsis – Artist Artist – Artist – Artist – Artist and AI and Konstantinos.
The project was recently presented in Corinth, during the signing of a memorandum of understanding between ten municipalities of the country for the launch of inter -municipal cooperation procedures on the action of “Apostle Paul”. This presentation referred to Paul’s arrival in Corinth, from Athens from where he had gone disappointed earlier.
In the Peloponnese he was initially regarded as a man who wandered around the Mediterranean to share life tips. Paul started living there by sewing scenes of goat’s skins in the workshop of Akila and Priscilla and supplied people with scenes. At the same time, he transcended the message of Christianity from the East to West and met Phoebe, which had an important role of ministry in the first local Christian community and later transferred to Rome and interpreted the letter to Paul to the Romans.
Thousands of years later, today, the pursuit of the actors of the educational project is, according to the Professor of the NCSR, to be not only an open museum that will spread his message to as many recipients as possible, but a living museum that will talk to each one …