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Start Date
18-9-2024 3:15 PM
End Date
18-9-2024 4:00 PM
Keywords
video games, game worlds, tolkienian subcreation
Description
This sectional will explore how religion and theological ideas might be made manifest in video games and particularly the creation of video games as a religious activity. The presentation will look at contemplative experiences in video games nand the creation and world-building of game worlds as a form of Tolkienian subcreation, which itself leads to contemplation regarding the creation of worlds, and how the mission of the church might possibly be supported in such experiences.
Submission Type
Bible Study; Lecture; Sermon Prep
Submission Audience
Laity; Ministers; Scholars
Submission Cost
Free
Contemplation, Subcreation, Mission . . . and Video Games
This sectional will explore how religion and theological ideas might be made manifest in video games and particularly the creation of video games as a religious activity. The presentation will look at contemplative experiences in video games nand the creation and world-building of game worlds as a form of Tolkienian subcreation, which itself leads to contemplation regarding the creation of worlds, and how the mission of the church might possibly be supported in such experiences.
