Christian Response to Dungeons and Dragons [Paperback]

Peter Leithart (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Dominion Pr (March 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0930462602
• ISBN-13: 978-0930462604
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 1.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,503,415 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Completely deceptive and lacking basic research, May 23, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Christian Response to Dungeons and Dragons (Paperback)

I am a Christian and I must say that this book does not deserve the title '"Christian" Response to Dungeons and Dragons'. Many of the facts are wrong and most of the arguments are deceptive or outright false. If you are planning to read this book, I recommend you get the Dungeons & Dragons Player's Handbook and/or Dungeon Master's Guide and compare them. Most (if not all) of the author's claims are wildly inaccurate.

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Unto the pure . . ., November 19, 1999

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the_smoking_quill (South Carolina) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Christian Response to Dungeons and Dragons (Paperback)

As with the Harry Potter books (silly as they may be), we Christians need to use careful, intelligent discernment and not automatically condemn anything with "magic." After all, what then do we say of C.S. Lewis' _Chronicles of Narnia_ or _The Lord of the Rings_, written by J.R.R. Tolkien, a Catholic? (And yes, Catholics are Christians, contrary to some misinformed opinions.)

As occasional entertainment, where the players play good characters, D&D has its merits. Playing in that way is not inconsistent with devotion to Jesus Christ; the greatest danger is that, in playing it, you not be spending your time in a way that best advances God's kingdom. Thus the need for moderation . . . I found that my playing of the game aided my vocabulary, imagination, organization, memory and writing skills--and my friends and I had fun and didn't go out drinking, using drugs, or womanizing. In that sense, it was a good thing.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not the worst ever, July 9, 2003

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P. Duggan "heirodule" (Philadelphia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Christian Response to Dungeons and Dragons (Paperback)

As a correspondent with one of the authors of this title, in his defense, he wrote it long ago when evangleicalism was producing "responses" to everything under the sun.

It has obvious flaws, like accepting some of the less founded criticisms of D&D's effects as factual, and in using quotes out of context to trash the D&D books.

But along with this "bathwater" is a "baby" of a call to discernment and moderation, which is too often ignored.

I also find it interesting that while D&D has often denied accuers who link it to the occult, it seems that as the occult has become more mainstream, D&D has adapted to the mainstreaming of the occult. A few of the publishers higher-up employees ARE admitted occultists (they admit it).

But D&D really doesn't contain occult info or encourage the dabbling in any real occult practices.

I certainly don't think the reviewer who said this was just a moneymaking scheme on the part ofthe author was warranted.