Theology in the Public Square - How to Play a god: Religion and Videogaming

The Theology in the Public Square series seeks to explore and understand the multiple interactions between religion, Theology, Spirituality, and contemporary culture. It also offers a taster of issues explored in our programmes in Theology and Religious Studies. The latest lecture explores the relationship between Religion and Videogaming.

Videogames and religion are not a good marriage per se. Many faithful have major reservations against games considering them full of violence, sex, and blasphemy. At the other side, the world of games has not always been kind to institutionalized religion, envisioning faith as superstition, the church as a manipulating entity, and believers as naïve remainders of a by-gone age.

The internationally published game theologian Frank G. Bosman (the Netherlands) begs to differ. In Gaming and the Divine: A New Systematic Theology of Video Games (Routledge, 2019), he makes an appealing case for a new cultural theology that identifies digital games as authentic finding places of God's continuing self-revelation.

Time: 6pm

Date: 24 March 2022

Venue: WIT, Main Auditorium

More on Religions and Theology at WIT: 

Religious Studies is available on both the BA (Hons) as a major and on the BA (Hons) Psychology as a minor subject. 

MA in Applied Spirituality welcomes applicants with an interest in Spirituality from a broad range of perspectives.

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