Bible Day in Bucharest: Pr. Constantin Coman highlighted the interpretation of the Holy Scriptures in the era of artificial intelligencetranslated

Father Professor Constantin Coman highlighted on Friday at the "Justinian Patriarch" Faculty of Orthodox Theology in Bucharest, the challenges that the digital revolution and artificial intelligence bring to the interpretation of Holy Scripture.

Entitled "New challenges for Orthodox biblical hermeneutics", the lecture was part of the program organized annually, on the occasion of Bible Day, by the Department of Historical, Biblical and Philological Theology of the higher education institution.

The exclusivism of historical understanding The cleric explained to Trinitas TV that the development of digital technologies and artificial intelligence can accentuate the tendency to reduce the interpretation of Holy Scripture to a rational and historical analysis.

"We face great challenges these days, brought especially by the digital information revolution and artificial intelligence, which tempts us once more with rationalist exclusivism, with the exclusivism of historical understanding."

Father Professor Constantin Coman specified that Orthodox theology makes use of the scientific methods of researching the biblical text: "We certainly use the historical-critical method in biblical studies, but not with the title...