Arkham City «introduces a brand - new story that draws together a new all - star cast of classic characters and murderous villains from the Batman universe, as well as a vast range of new and enhanced gameplay features to deliver
the ultimate experience as the Dark Knight.»
Set inside the heavily fortified walls of a sprawling district in the heart of Gotham City, this highly anticipated sequel introduces a brand - new story that draws together a new, all - star cast of classic characters and murderous villains from the Batman universe, as well as a vast range of new and enhanced gameplay features to deliver
the ultimate experience as the Dark Knight.
Not exact matches
«Olympic fans can be transported to iconic venues such
as Maracana Stadium for an unprecedented view of the Opening Ceremony, and Copacabana Beach for an immersive beach volleyball
experience in the sport's
ultimate setting.»
LFE describes itself
as a «global movement to create the
ultimate sports community, where fans partake in exclusive club and fan
experiences».
And I have sought to show, using Hartshorne
as a concrete example, how a dialectical defense provides the
ultimate support for one's claims about
experience and its essential temporality and how that dialectic rests on claims quite remote from any direct or straightforward reading of
experience, whether private or public.
I was «a person who held that the existence of the
ultimate cause,
as God, and the essential nature of things are unknown and unknowable, or that human knowledge is limited to
experience.»
• The movement to reject any objective
ultimate authority and elevate human
experience as the only source of meaning.
Just
as the emergence of reflection was a crucial moment, a breaking point in the world of instinct, so religious belief is a unique event of
ultimate import, a breaking point and crisis in human rational
experience and history, both individually and collectively.
However creation was accomplished, it is all the work of a deity who is the
ultimate and finally responsible causative agent; secondary causation, such
as we know in our own
experience of the world, is derivative from and in every respect dependent upon the first cause.
Joachim Wach, a sociologist of religion, has suggested four characteristics of religious
experience and belief: (1) Religion «is a response to what is
experienced as ultimate reality; that is, in religious
experiences we reach not to any single or finite phenomenon, material or otherwise, but to what we realize
as under - girding and conditioning all that constitutes our world of
experience.»
This means not only that we are approaching the texts
as fully human productions — I point out that statements of divine inspiration are statements concerning
ultimate origin and authority, not method of composition - but even more that we take seriously that aspect of literature of most interest to cultural anthropologists: how it gives symbolic expression to human
experience.
What this meant was that,
as long
as the sciences or any related form of inquiry attended to the immediacies of nature or
experience, no
ultimate question need intrude or be considered.
In contrast with this
experience, which is universal and important but not of central or
ultimate importance, the
experiences described in the next part of this book
as defining religious
experiences are involved in and illustrated by every form of human activity including the seeking for food and the appreciation of art.
He was willing to settle for what he called «practical absolutes, «27 that is, visions of the mind or idealizations which, at any given time, had the value of an
ultimate directive in decision or action, but which were clearly to be understood
as being a piece with man's own nature and
experience.
Even though the objectifications,
as early phases, make up the actuality of the newly arising entity, they must at the same time be regarded
as potentialities insofar
as the form of their
ultimate incorporation into the new entity is not yet fully determined, and will
experience its determination only in the process of concrescence.
The final component of our method will be to develop the implications of the historically - related, communicable,
ultimate, universal
experiences which are taken
as defining religion.
Therefore, for Altizer, secularization is good insofar
as it destroys that God who is different from man, but bad insofar
as it also eliminates the religious instinct, the awareness of the Sacred, that divine dimension of
experience which is intuited
as identical with man's own
ultimate being and destiny.
a person who holds that the existence of the
ultimate cause,
as God, and the essential nature of things are unknown and unknowable, or that human knowledge is limited to
experience.
It belongs to the
ultimate texture of
experience, with the same evidence
as does presentational immediacy.
Unfortunately, even backed by prehension, the reliable character of the
experience of CE is not
as bill - blooded
as might be desired, since its
ultimate justification, in terms of the justification of the theory of prehension itself, is external to the perceiving subject.
Rather it is the immediacy of
experience itself, understood
as the
ultimate reality of each and every self.
Whitehead offers us a variant on the Humean notion of the self
as a bundle of instances — though he of course provides a metaphysical account of the becoming of each instance where Hume took them
as ultimates of
experience.
But,
as Whitehead himself insists, «the
ultimate appeal is to naive
experience» (SMW 129f).
It arises directly out of the primitive Christian valuation of the facts of history and
experience as eschatological facts, that is,
as the
ultimate manifestation in time of the eternal counsel of God.
Religions which consider the mystic
experience as the
ultimate point of spiritual self - realization, consider history with its plurality
as of no
ultimate significance, and consider the many religions in history with their emphasis on nama and rupa
as ultimately so relative and insignificant, that they are tolerated
as equally true or untrue.
Part of the appeal of Whitehead's metaphysics lies in this, that through his conception of pulses of
experience as the
ultimate facts, he invests the passage of time with life and motion, with pathos, and with a majesty rivaled in no other philosophy of change, and in few eternalistic ones.
It is faith that compels us to trust these
experiences» rather than dismiss them
as illusions in our inevitable «mornings - after»» and faith that interprets these
experiences as occurrences «for me,» signs «of the
ultimate benignness of the universe.»
To have
experienced and understood, in order to teach others to
experience and understand, that all human enrichment is but dross except inasmuch
as it becomes the most precious and incorruptible of all things by adding itself to an immortal centre of love: such is the supreme knowledge and the
ultimate lesson to be imparted by the Christian educator.
They use David Bebbington's scheme of marks that identify evangelicalism: conversionism (an emphasis on the new birth
as a life - changing
experience), biblicism (reliance on the Bible
as ultimate authority), activism (a commitment to evangelizing), and crucicentrism (a focus on Christ's redeeming work on the cross, usually pictured
as the only way of salvation).
No circumstance of daily life is too trivial or commonplace to serve
as a window into the realm of
ultimate values, and no truth too profound to find its analogue in common
experience.
Key concepts in the new consciousness are: subject, felt relations, internal relations, sympathy richness of
experience, creative solitude, hope, faith affection new being,
ultimate concern (= God), compassion and God's action in the world
as internally related to all individual entities from protons to people.
The once - for - all aspect, the
ultimate decisiveness of Jesus» death, means that this
experience remains unsurpassable and always present
as an operative part of God's relationship with us.
by David Bebbington): conversionism, or an emphasis on the «new birth»
as a life - changing religious
experience; biblicism, a reliance on the Bible
as ultimate religious authority; activism, a concern for sharing the faith; and crucicen - trism, an emphasis on Christ's atoning work on the cross.
She does not tell us whether she has come to identify fully with this version of Christianity, but she makes clear that in this book she writes
as a social scientist who in this role can not make statements about the
ultimate validity of the Evangelical
experience of God.
For example, the causal argument is not really a demonstration of God's existence, but a statement of the
experience that everything which exists comes
as a gift and thus suggests the question concerning the
ultimate sources of being.
For Revelation in the
ultimate resort and in principle claims the whole of reality
as the possible subject - matter of its affirmations, even if only sub respectu salutis (in relation to salvation), and from this point of view even events and realities which are accessible to secular
experience fall within its material scope.
Third, in our situation today, the specific requirements of these two criteria are such that no theology can be adequate unless it makes the assertion of the
experience of God, by which I mean that it must assert, in some formulation or other, that the strictly
ultimate reality termed «God» is the object
as well
as the subject of
experience, and this in relation to others
as well
as to self.
We saw earlier that the main assumption of all classical metaphysicians is that such fundamental features of our
experience as time, change, and real relations to others can not possibly be conceived to characterize the
ultimate or divine reality.
That
ultimate good,
as I understand it, is the achievement of the greatest possible fullness of life in every living creature in a continuing process which opens up ever enlarging possibilities of
experiencing the joy of being.
They admirably avoid the fundamental question that haunts Christian theology: if God who wills to be involved has created a world in which not even he can act in perfect blamelessness, how can God avoid the accusation of guilt —
ultimate, primordial culpability for human suffering; culpability for that which we
experience as evil?
As explained in chapter two and the preceding sections of this chapter, Hartshorne's
ultimate entities, the actual occasions of
experience, are all social by nature.
But whether the «nature of things» be grounded in God, or whether God be the primordial exemplification of «the nature of things» with respect to an independent, abstract «category of the
ultimate,» it is the case that both the biblical record and process - relational thought recognize a pervasive movement toward greater richness of
experience as a generic feature of reality.
In his perspective it is necessary to leave the plane of
experience and go back to the
ultimate microcosmic event - units, since it is only in the microcosm that the desired concept of an «actual entity»
as an organic unity of process can find a place.
We come back to Jesus the real, the
ultimate truth in doctrine and in fulfilment
as a living
experience of human joy.
In the Old Testament's treatment of the problem of suffering are some of the most notable expressions in literature of ethical insight into the meaning of retribution, profound faith in the
ultimate justice of God, personal courage in accepting trouble
as self - discipline, spiritual understanding of vicarious sacrifice, and religious
experience of a trustworthy God; and, accompanying all these, the refrain of the disillusioned also, «Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.»
However otherwise conceived, the
ultimate ground must be
as intelligible and
as orderly
as the world of
experience.
As the subjective instantiation of creativity, it could also perceive creativity as divine precisely because creativity is experienced as ultimat
As the subjective instantiation of creativity, it could also perceive creativity
as divine precisely because creativity is experienced as ultimat
as divine precisely because creativity is
experienced as ultimat
as ultimate.
In Whiteheadian terms this «That» is understood to be the nonspecific
experience of the
ultimate process of reality, creativity understood
as universal subjectivity.
To be sure, the self is
ultimate in that it is necessary to our
experience or understanding of
ultimate reality, including the self; and it is for this reason, presumably, that psychology, understood
as critical reflection on the self
as thus
ultimate, can be represented
as the third discipline of special metaphysics.
Haight sees faith
as «a universal form of human
experience» that «entails an awareness of and loyalty to an
ultimate or transcendent reality.»