Repeated suggestions: Please add any additional that you are familar with

I would really appreciate a more international flavor to Logos resources across all denominations. Resources I am familiar with:

Hippo / Africa Bible Commentary Series
International Bible Commentary (1 volume)
Asia Bible Commentary Series
The Community Bible
Dalit Bible Commentaries
Commentaries by Abouna Tadros Malaty (Coptic Orthodox)

I would also love to see the work of Bible Catena in Logos - in PB format to permit ongoing updates. (sample: http://catenas.wetpaint.com/page/Jonah+1 )

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Ted Hans

Hippo / Africa Bible Commentary Series
Asia Bible Commentary Series

[Y][Y][Y]. I am not familiar with the other commentaries in your list but the two above get my vote.

Rosie Perera

I would really appreciate a more international flavor to Logos resources across all denominations.

[Y][Y]

I would hugely appreciate that. We in North America are so impoverished in knowledge of how the rest of the world (outside of Europe) interprets the Bible, how Christianity developed there, etc. I took a whole class on the History of Christianity in Africa, and I still feel that I know just a drop in the bucket.

Some books I'd like to see in Logos

A World History of Christianity (Adrian Hastings, Eerdmans)
History of the World Christian Movement: Earliest Christianity to 1453 (Dale T. Irvin & Scott W. Sunquist, Orbis)
Readings in World Christian History (John W. Coakley & Andrea Sterk, Orbis)
The Bible in World Christian Perspective (W. Ward Gasque & David W. Baker, Regent College Publishing)
The Cross-Cultural Process in Christian History: Studies in the Transmission and Appropriation of Faith (Andrew F. Walls, Orbis)
A History of Christianity in Africa: From Antiquity to the Present (Elizabeth Isichei, Eerdmans)
Christianity in Africa: The Renewal of Non-Western Religion (Studies in World Christianity) (Kwame Bediako, Orbis)
West African Christianity: The Religious Impact (Lamin Sanneh, Orbis)
Jesus of Africa: Voices of Contemporary African Christology (Diane Stinton)
How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind: Rediscovering the African Seedbed of Western Christianity (Thomas C. Oden, IVP Academic)
The African Memory of Mark: Reassessing Early Church Tradition (Thomas C. Oden, IVP Academic)
Early Libyan Christianity: Uncovering a North African Tradition (Thomas C. Oden, IVP Academic)
Theology in the Context of World Christianity: How the Global Church Is Influencing the Way We Think about and Discuss Theology (Timothy C. Tennent, Zondervan)
The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia--and How It Died (John Philip Jenkins, HarperOne)
An Introduction to Third World Theologies (John Parratt, Cambridge University Press)
Chinese Intellectuals and the Gospel (Samuel Ling & Stacey Bieler, P & R Publishing)

Some useful online resources that would be nice to have turned into Logos resources:

Dictionary of African Christian Biography
Theology in Africa (Journal)

But I don't really even know what to ask for, because I'm so limited in my perspective.

fgh

I would really appreciate a more international flavor to Logos resources across all denominations.

[Y]

I saw something positive about the International Bible Commentary the other day. Wish I remembered where.

International and across denominations in another sense: Some ecumenical books.

I'd also like some modern Coptic and Ethiopian Orthodox resources. E g the recently deceased Coptic pope has had several books published in Swedish (very popular among Protestants; I think it was actually a Pentecostal pastor who introduced him), so I would assume he's been translated into English as well.

And we don't have a single resource on the Armenian church, do we? (Apart from dictionary entries.)

The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia--and How It Died (John Philip Jenkins, HarperOne)

I'm pretty sure I've supported this before.

fgh

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/361418#Comment_361418

E g the recently deceased Coptic pope

Besides pope Shenouda, another interesting Copt is Matta al-Miskîn (Mattá al-Miskīn, Matta El-Meskeen, Matthew the Poor...). The name variations make it hard to find out what is translated, but St Vladimir's seems to have at least 2 titles (The Communion of Love and Orthodox Prayer Life: The Interior Way), and Amazon lists 2 other. There are also a number of translated booklets/articles.

The "Poor" part of his name is there for a reason. This guy literally sold two houses, two cars and two pharmacies, gave the money to the poor and moved out into the desert, where, as I understand it, he mostly lived on bread, water, and prayer in a cave. He's written a large number of books, and is a (perhaps the) major figure in the revival of Coptic Monastic life. Like for so many other radical renewers, his life went the full circle: in 1960 he was excommunicated, in 1971 he was a candidate for the papacy. I know of him because of his desire for Christian unity, especially (naturally) between the Oriental and the Orthodox churches.

Unfortunately, the Bible commentaries he wrote towards the end of his life doesn't seem to have been translated (yet...), so we'll have to do with his more spiritual works. Pope Shenouda had at least two 'contemplations' on books of the Bible on Amazon, though.

Ken McGuire

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/365966#Comment_365966

How about Raimon Panikkar?

John Mbiti?

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/365981#Comment_365981

bump

any new material to add? I'd add Global Bible Commentary (1 vol)

DMB

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/581633#Comment_581633

All quite needed, especially Hippo. Africa and Asia both major areas of growth and both have long Christian histories.

(But I really hate to even squeak the word 'coptic', it's so basic to early manuscript evaluation).

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/581635#Comment_581635

I actually made a special plea to get started on Coptic material in the Orthodox forum.

abondservant

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/581638#Comment_581638

MJ - because I'm not too familiar with the "Catena" resources you mentioned, but because I have a fairly decent short term memory, it occurs to me that perhaps you haven't noticed that there are 4 resources with a similar name (Catena Aurea) in the Anglican base packages Gold and higher.

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/581649#Comment_581649

MJ - because I'm not too familiar with the "Catena" resources you mentioned, but because I have a fairly decent short term memory, it occurs to me that perhaps you haven't noticed that there are 4 resources with a similar name (Catena Aurea) in the Anglican base packages Gold and higher.

[:'(] The Bible Catena link is dead - I hope that doesn't mean the project is as well.