Cart
Free US shipping over $10
Proud to be B-Corp

No Avatars Allowed Joshua Wise

No Avatars Allowed By Joshua Wise

No Avatars Allowed by Joshua Wise


$24.89
Condition - New
Only 2 left

No Avatars Allowed Summary

No Avatars Allowed: Theological Reflections on Video Games by Joshua Wise

How can video games challenge us to think more deeply about our reality, faith, and community?

Since the advent of video games in the 1960s, they have become the common experience of everyone from Gen-X to the Millennial and post-Millennial generations. While many of today's clergy, parishioners, and theologians grew up gaming, the church's stance regarding video games is one of, at best, bemusement.

This book takes seriously the idea that video games can challenge us to think more deeply about our reality, divinity, faith, and each other. It draws readers into a small, but growing, conversation about models of incarnation and what it means to distinguish between the virtual and the real. This book will introduce readers to concepts and questions from the perspective of a Christian systematic theologian who has been playing games since he was four years old, and who has been writing, speaking, and podcasting about this topic since 2010. It is an invitation into a relatively new conversation about divinity, humanity, and technology.

About Joshua Wise

JOSHUA WISE is an independent scholar of Theology and popular culture. He earned his doctorate in systematic theology from The Catholic University of America. The author of Weeping Cedars, Deephome, and editor of Past the Sky's Rim: The Elder Scrolls and Theology, he co-hosts the podcast No Avatars Allowed. Dr. Wise lives in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania, where he is the Theologian in Residence for Incarnation Holy Sacrament Church.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Father Benjamin Gildas, AF
Introduction

CHAPTER 1
Generations of Believers That Game

CHAPTER 2
Violence: The Virtual and the Real

CHAPTER 3
The Church's Suspicions about Video Games

CHAPTER 4
It's a Secret to Everybody: The Limits of Knowledge

CHAPTER 5
He Emptied Himself: Rethinking the Incarnation

CHAPTER 6
The Mass Effected: Can There Be Virtual Sacraments?

CHAPTER 7
Scouting Things Out for Future Explorations

Conclusion

Additional information

NLS9781640651845
9781640651845
1640651845
No Avatars Allowed: Theological Reflections on Video Games by Joshua Wise
New
Paperback
Church Publishing Inc
2019-10-31
176
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a new book - be the first to read this copy. With untouched pages and a perfect binding, your brand new copy is ready to be opened for the first time

Customer Reviews - No Avatars Allowed