Sentences with phrase «series tradition of»

God of War keeps the series tradition of large scale boss fights.

However, stealth games have changed a lot since Metal Gear pioneered them back in 1987 — does The Phantom Pain carry on a longstanding series tradition of excellence, or is it a samey phantom flop that's lost what made Metal Gear special?

Sadly, I didn't notice any UFO Catchers during my time with Yakuza 6, abandoning a series tradition of catching cute fluffy toys.

Speaking of story (note to self: learn how to better segway into different topics), LEGO Batman 2 follows the series tradition of being utterly bonkers while also managing to fit in more characters than its predecessor did, which had a surprisingly small roster count for a LEGO game.

Shin Megami Tensei IV's art direction stands above nearly all 3DS titles though continuing a series tradition of being visually pleasing without the flashiest graphics.

In some respects Arkham Knight has some rather serious problems in the form of dull drone combat, no Challenge Maps, weak side quests and an over reliance on using the Batmobile and the series tradition of having lackluster boss battles.

Dissidia Final Fantasy NT keeps the series tradition of having completely out of place subtitle in its name.

Disney's Guilty Party added a funny story and strong focus on mystery solving, Nintendo's Wii Party streamlined the Mario Party formula to focus on fun and accessibility, and Namco Bandai's Active Life Explorer continued the series tradition of injecting high energy exercise.

Not exact matches

continues the series» long - held traditions of rhythm - based, pattern - matching boxing action and lighthearted ethnic stereotyping.

To them, Christian tradition constitutes a series of landmark expressions of the faith which are worth exploring, but which must change to incorporate new insights and new truth.

The intention of the series is to reclaim, at long last, the Bible as the book of the Church's living tradition.

The Pelikan volume on the Book of Acts sets a very high standard for a series that promises to make a historic contribution to understanding the Bible within the living tradition that is the Church.

One part of Protestantism fragmented and hardened into a series of contradictory biblicistic positions; the other continued to meander beyond the limits of Scripture and tradition and, uncontrolled by any legitimately established teaching authority, to become a dogmatic and ethical free - for - all.

[223] And so the question arises: what place does Whitehead himself occupy in the European tradition that he characterized as a «series of footnotes to Plato» (PR 39/63)?

The Reformed tradition is much broader and more diverse than many of us realize, and since we've already featured the more conservative Justin Taylor for «Ask a Calvinist...» I thought it was time to interview someone from the progressive end of the Reformed spectrum for our «Ask a...» series.

The largest hole in this wholistic interpretation of the human situation is the absence of any attention to the moral and religious traditions that have emerged, died away or persisted within the very evolutionary process that the series purports to describe.

The latest book in a series of which he is general editor offers a reflection on sex, marriage, and Christian love that appeals for solid grounding in the Bible and a tradition of moderate Calvinism.

He went up, John says, «not publicly, but almost in secret,» as if he wished to observe without being observed, taking the temperature of feeling in metropolitan circles.2 But «when the festival was already half over» he was moved to address the crowds in the temple.3 What he said so incensed them that he was in danger of being lynched.4 In the Fourth Gospel this episode is made, after John's manner, the setting for a whole series of dialogues and discourses which are evidently his own composition, though they contain undoubted reminiscences of earlier tradition, but there seems no valid reason to reject his statement that in September or October Jesus was in Jerusalem, and that the reception he met with finally convinced him — whatever premonitions he may previously have entertained — that any advance on the city would meet with implacable hostility.

In spite of Whitehead's well - known quip in Process and Reality that «The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato,» my Whiteheadian reading of the history of thought begins with Aristotle.

Many assume that it received its definitive meaning from a series of post-crucifixion events, as recorded in the Lucan tradition.

The years of study that led to the four volumes of the Classical Pastoral Care series and the study of Gregory the Great (Pastoral Care in the Classic Tradition) helped free me to listen to supposedly «precritical» writers with postcritical attentiveness.

Even so, the whole tradition of what is usually called «Christian philosophy,» whose most admirable expression is, doubtless, the imposing system of Aquinas, is but a series of attempts to make the identification; and the profound influence of that tradition, even on those who now declare its God to be dead, is proof that these attempts have enjoyed some kind of success.

6, 7 and 8 are a series of comments accruing to the story m the tradition.

What is new about the Twilight series, whose premise is that the heroine may not have physical relations with her vampire lover on pain of death, is not the theme itself: the same twisted sexuality pervades the whole tradition of literary pornography.

Religious claims, in this regard, are a series of propositions which are coherent in their own terms and which generate a historical tradition in which believers struggle to reconcile their understanding of truth - claims with the pressures of life and experience.

It's both tradition and evolution and also the decisions of a series of powerful men, who for their own reasons made the decision to intensify Jerusalem's importance.

It is through our specially charged participation in the internal memory of a tradition that we are placed in touch with the promissory interpretation of what might otherwise appear only as a series of inconsequential occurrences.

Transformed by God's Word combines the ancient Western practice of lectio divina (sacred reading) with the Eastern Orthodox tradition of visio divina (sacred seeing) by pairing reflections on twenty gospel readings with a series of beautiful, never - before published contemporary icons.

The Chicago school went through a series of permutations and continues today as «process theology», the tradition in which I stand.

Back in grad school I read somewhere that there was a rabbinical tradition that it was a dog that God gave Cain to protect him in Gen 4... hence the beginning of man's best friend (as well as the inspiration of the Cain / dog relationship in the Kung Fu series).

This is the reason why historic Christianity, in the long run, always granted a place to other cultural traditions: paganism survived in law; its mythology enjoyed a series of rebirths in art.

We, along with the recorders of ancient Israel's tradition, may well understand that Israel's escape from Egypt followed immediately upon and indeed in consequence of an uncommon series of «natural» disasters.

If we think in terms of a series of concentric circles, the apostolic traditions must be central.

All Year: The Bible (There are many translations available at biblegateway.com)- Anchor Bible Commentary Series - The Women's Bible Commentary, Edited by Carol A. Newsom and Sharon H. Ringe - Living Judaism: The Guide to Jewish Belief, Tradition, and Practice by Wayne D. Dosick - Women in Scripture: A Dictionary of Named and Unnamed Women in the Hebrew Bible, the Apocryphal / Deuterocanonical books, and the New Testament, Edited by Carol Meyers, Toni Cravien, and Ross Shepard Kraemer - Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, Edited by John Piper and Wayne Grudem - Discovering Biblical Equality: Complementarity Without Hierarchy, Edited by Ronald W. Pierce, Rebecca Merrill Groothuis and Gordon D. Fee - Women in the World of the Earliest Christians: Illuminating Ancient Ways of Life by Lynn Cohick - God's Word to Women by Katharine C. Bushnell - Don't Know Much About the Bible: Everything You Need to Know About the Good Book but Never Learned by Kenneth C. Davis - «On The Dignity and Vocation of Women» by Pope John Paul II - The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs

But I can offer how the series maps onto the classical tradition of the four cardinal virtues, as best exemplified by Josef Pieper's fine book on the subject.

It consists of a series of amazing cooking traditions and special food preparation practices originating in France.

In fact the whole series of English devotional manuals from Cosin's in 1627, which picks up the tradition of the medieval and Elizabethan Primers, down to Thomas Nelson's Companions (to the Altar and to the Festivals and Fasts), the work of a nonjuring layman

None of the subjects treated in the Tracts for the Times was more definitely a return to lost traditions than this, which was boldly taken up fairly early in the series.

Critical investigation shows that the whole tradition about Jesus which appears in the three synoptic gospels is composed of a series of layers which can on the whole be clearly distinguished, although the separation at some points is difficult and doubtful.

India Food Network and APB Cook Studio will organise Community Cook - Ups, a series of workshops and cooking demonstrations to celebrate food cultures and traditions across communities during Indian festivals.

The creative idea behind The Smugglers Series, meanwhile, was to honour the tradition of the illicit whisky trade that operated during the 18th and 19th centuries across Scotland in general, and specifically, from The Isle of Arran, up the River Clyde to Glasgow, a hub of market activity at the time.

Hello, and welcome back to an annual tradition here at SB Nation, in which we pick the best bet out of a series of over / under figures provided by a casino that wants to take your money.

Speaking of the Heels, Bill Connelly's preview series touched on them yesterday, which means we begin our yearly tradition of kinda - sorta talking ourselves into UNC being good.

Toronto has the tradition of giving away HCA by losing the first game in the series, why should they stop now?

At RFN, we have a number of big fans of the series and will continue our tradition of producing our own custom update for the Russian leagues, hopefully out later this month.

A New Beginning: Celebrating the Spring Equinox - Wendy Pfeffer I really enjoy this series of seasonal books for the wide perspective of celebrations and traditions they provide.

Our first in this three part series about passing on the babywearing tradition to the next generation focused on children's books featuring babywearing followed up with a post about fostering a love of caregiving in... READ MORE

If they love the monsters of Sesame Street then definitely check out the Shalom Sesame series, its a friendly way to introduce traditions and the Jewish culture.

Developments in the US also have their roots in the nation's own radical traditions, such as the labor republicanism of the Knights of Labor discussed by Alex Gourevitch in this series.

The Democratic Wealth series has given much attention to «republicanism» as a philosophical tradition which might serve as a source of guidance (see, for example, these contributions from Alex Gourevitch, José Luis Martí and Philip Pettit).