The faith in the continuous evolution and complete emancipation of the human subject through science, which lasted for about three centuries, suffered severe blows during the 20th century, when the awareness formed that scientific triumphs do not lead to the qualitative evolution of societies and culture, nor can they illuminate all aspects of human reality.

Georgios Grammatikakis importantly observes: “From the moment man proclaims his scientific triumphs, he is obliged to accept not only his alienation from an artificial system of values but also the excessively myopic and arrogant nature of his vision.” Thus, amidst the ongoing processes, a new human being emerges, “the suspended human, who already suspects that only a world that starts from him and ends with the Other – the other suspended humans – has some logical existence or potential to survive.

This is his personal responsibility, but also his grace: only the outstretching of his hand to the other inhabitants of the planet, and to nature or the sea, will balance the suspended human.” The outstretching of the hand to the Other constitutes the core of the evangelical and ecclesiastical tradition, the point of convergence with the new humanism, in order not to frustrate the deeper expectations of humanity for its present and future.