On July 14th at 12.30 p.m. on ORF 2 and on ORF ON
Vienna (OTS) – Sandra Szabo will present selected contributions to the reunion on Sunday, July 14, 2024, at 12:30 p.m. on ORF 2 and on ORF ON as part of the “Orientation” summer reprises:
Chatting with Jesus: ChatGPT changes theology
The “Text with Jesus” app lets users chat with Jesus, Job, Mary or the apostles, ask questions about meaning and talk about their faith. But the app also brings with it historical and theological inconsistencies and does not offer a neutral theological discourse. What dangers and opportunities does this app pose? To what extent can artificial intelligence actually answer questions about meaning? Lena Göbl tested the app together with theologians.
Loss of physicality? People in the cyber world
What happens to a society that is increasingly losing physicality? Looking for a partner, contacting authorities, communicating with friends: a lot of things happen today in a digital and virtual world. In his current book “Homo cyber”, the computer scientist Peter Reichl examines the question of which problem digitalization is actually the solution to. How can personality, corporeality and humanism be preserved in the cyber world? Can digitalization be more humane and sensual? Karoline Thaler spoke to him about these questions.
Old Believers in Russia: Divided on the Ukraine Issue
In Russia, the “Old Believers” is the name given to a Christian religious community that split off from the Russian Orthodox Church in the 17th century because it did not want to support the church reform of that time. The Old Believers were then brutally persecuted. Today they mostly live in remote places and practice traditional crafts; their number is estimated at two to three million. ORF Russia expert Carola Schneider accompanied Russian Old Believers in their everyday lives and asked them about their opinion on the war in Ukraine.
Great art in a small town: Herbert Brandl’s stained glass windows
Innsbruck Bishop Hermann Glettler is convinced that there should be great art even in a small town: The parish church of St. Johann am Walde in East Tyrol, which is currently being renovated, will not only receive an urgently needed renovation of the church tower, external facade and church floor. The medieval church is also getting new stained glass windows designed by the internationally renowned artist Herbert Brandl. Glettler, who is a trained art historian, is keen to ensure that the church and modern art remain in the conversation – and the diocese is certainly willing to pay for that. Lisa Gangl reports.