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These games usually emphasize the teachings of the ministry of Jesus, or retell Bible stories such as Noah's Ark or the life of Jesus.While Christian video games are considered a genre, they usually intersect with other genres, such as early computer title Bible Computer Games which is an educational game, [5] action-adventure games Spiritual Warfare and Super 3D Noah's Ark, the Guitar Praise ...
Christians have had diverse attitudes towards violence and nonviolence over time. Both currently and historically, there have been four attitudes towards violence and war and four resulting practices of them within Christianity: non-resistance, Christian pacifism, just war, and preventive war (Holy war, e.g., the Crusades). [1]
Sectarian violence among Christians is a recurring phenomenon, in which Christians engage in a form of communal violence known as sectarian violence. This form of violence can frequently be attributed to differences of religious beliefs between sects of Christianity ( sectarianism ).
A Levite reading the Law to the Israelites. The Rambam famously rules that members of the tribe of Levi do not fight in the army. [3]Roots of Christian pacifism can be found in the scriptures of the Old Testament according to Baylor University professor of religion, John A. Wood. [4] Millard C. Lind explains the theology of warfare in ancient Israel as God directing the people of Israel to ...
This is a list of Christian video game releases in order of release date. A Christian video game is a video game that incorporates themes from Christianity , reflecting Christian values . 1980–1989
Christian persecution complex is the belief, attitude, or world view that Christian values and Christians are being oppressed by social groups and governments in the Western world. [1] This belief is promoted by certain American Protestant churches, [ 2 ] and some Christian- or Bible-based groups in Europe. [ 3 ]
Video game developers use religious and spiritual themes to involve the player more deeply in the game. [12] Video game developer Shigeru Miyamoto, who used to play outside as a child, used his experiences and memories of exploring the forest and discovering a Buddhist temple in the design of his video games. [13]
Bernard—and, once the papacy gave sanction to the idea, the entire Roman Catholic Church—believed that existing Christian methods of serving the Church's ends in war were inadequate, and that a group of dedicated warrior monks could achieve spiritual merit by waging war, rather than despite it.