What am I buying?

Some works I figure are Catholic. Never have been nor intend t. So my suggestion would be to mark resources and what community they belong to. A good way to do this is with the base packages listed for Logos 8. Look at it as a way to make better ordering decisions.

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Dave Emme

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PetahChristian

David,

It's been long requested, and FL did start working on denominational and theological tagging, a couple of years ago.

Not sure how much progress has been made. Perhaps someone from FL can provide an update if you ask in that thread?

David Wanat

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1104540#Comment_1104540

Some books, when you scroll down far enough, list an affiliation. Not always though.

DMB

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1104557#Comment_1104557

I think FL's tasking would always be a bit tricky. They seem to be moving toward a finger-print-less publishing, to the extent possible. Automate the tagging as much as possible.

So, the temptation is to class by publisher. That'd be a mistake, especially on the scholarly side. The alternative is obvious titles, or read the book? Doubt it.

PetahChristian

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1104559#Comment_1104559

Still, I’d take mostly right denominational tagging with reported errors fixed, over no tagging at all.

Manuel R.

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1104561#Comment_1104561

Yes, sometimes it would be helpful to have a denominational tag but I guess it is not possible for all resources. Take for example bibles. Some translations are from a certain denomination but in general they belong to all (see the denominational packages).

Especially the dogmatic resources would be helpful to be tagged. I usually look at the appraisals and see which people recommend this resource. And as already mentioned it can be a hint, whether it is part of demonational package but that's only a hint. Authors can change their position in the course of their lives. And usually church fathers are categorized to catholic/verbum but I think that's a bias.

DMB

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1104762#Comment_1104762

And usually church fathers are categorized to catholic/verbum but I think that's a bias.

Absolutely. The fathers, especially the earlier ones, provide a lot of clues as to what they thought the greek meant. Also the latin fathers, where they were forced to translate the original greek.

David Wanat

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1104762#Comment_1104762

And usually church fathers are categorized to catholic/verbum but I think that's a bias.

Also in Orthodox. In fact, I found it more of a bargain to buy an Orthodox package to boost my Patristics collections than to buy the CUA Fathers of the Church separately.