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Lädt ... Past the Sky's Rim: The Elder Scrolls and Theology (2014. Auflage)von Joshua Wise (Herausgeber)
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The Elder Scrolls series has entranced gamers for two decades with its deep mythology, complex history, and intriguing locations. Players have explored a world in The Elder Scrolls rich with kings, demons, heroes, magic, and gods. Past the Sky's Rim: The Elder Scrolls and Theology engages with the world from the perspective of academic theology and religious studies. Within these pages, scholars ask what it means to become a god, to die alone in the solitude of Vvardenfell, and to live in a world with different afterlives for different people. Attempting to move beyond a shallow engagement, Past the Sky's Rim considers Video Games as serious media capable of transmitting important ideas to those who engage with them and invites readers to think more deeply about what games can say about ultimate realities. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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It is striking to be reminded that the gods of Tamriel – the Aedra and the Daedra and everything else – are not throwaway names but show considerable depth of thought on the part of their creators. The lore stands up under the academic scrutiny of the book's contributors. Nor is Past the Sky's Rim a cheap attempt to make Christianity 'cool' by appealing to gamers. It lays down its marker early on, rejecting the easy comparison between the Christian Trinity and Morrowind's Tribunal (pg. 26). Instead, the book makes a number of astute remarks on the nuances of The Elder Scrolls' world, and in particular the commentary on the story of Nerevar at Red Mountain shows that the lore is often quite sophisticated.
It's hard to know who the book is for: gamers will be put off by the overly-dry academic noodling (though only the final two essays jump the shark on this) and I'm not convinced by the authors' framing argument that the comparison to The Elder Scrolls shines light on the study of Christianity. The discussion of Christian theology is very dry and, if anything, its only insight is an unintentional one. You see, the opportunity to lose yourself in the world of The Elder Scrolls is one of the great joys of modern fiction. "Those of us who have spent hours (more than we'd like to admit) wandering the frozen lands of Skyrim, or the ashy wastes of Vvardenfell can attest to the deep longing inside us. We want to go there; we've tasted what it means to 'live another life in another world' and want to with a powerful desperation. And this, I suspect, 'is the love of God'" (pg. 130). But aside from this one allusion to the anticipatory thrill of Heaven (in what is the book's finest essay), Past the Sky's Rim does not delve into the transcendental nature of the series' storytelling, or storytelling in general. Theology is dry and uninspiring largely because it abstracts itself from Christianity's instinctive storytelling roots, and The Elder Scrolls comparison throws this into relief. ( )