Halos and Avatars: Playing Video Games with God

Craig Detweiler's collection of up-to-the-minute essays on video games' religious themes is for gamers, parents, pastors, media scholars, and theologians-virtually anyone who has dared to consider the ramifications of modern society's obsession with video games. And there is a wealth of material to explore. From a feminist reading of the Left Behind video game to an examination of bioethics and theology in controversial games such as BioShock, this book takes on an exploding genre in popular culture. Detweiler's well-researched work features interviews with the creators of some of today's most popular games, who discuss their creative process and some of the deeper issues they seek to address. Essayists run the gamut from ESPN's Matt Kitchen to Fuller Seminary's Daniel Hodge.