New Feature: Ask the Author
What is it?
Share your thoughts and questions on any book or author, and get responses from fellow Logos users (sometimes the author will respond, too!). Ask the Author empowers you to better understand the text and broaden your perspective.*Only available while connected to the Internet.
What does it do?
The Ask the Author tool connects users more intimately to their library resources by giving them the opportunity to ask resource-related questions and receive feedback directly from the author(s). Questions will appear much like Community Notes. Users will be able to view questions posted by other users as well as author-contributed answers.
How does it work?
Select the Ask the Author tool—either from the tools menu or content menu—and a small panel will open on the left side of your screen where you can both post questions while reading and see other questions readers have asked.
Additionally, you can find your favorite authors on Faithlife, ask your questions, and read their responses.
Get connected to fellow readers, pose questions, and learn from others—this new tool makes it easier than ever to engage the text and get responses directly from the author.
How do I get it?
This feature is included in Core Crossgrade and all Starter-level packages and higher.
Shop all packages that include this feature.
Open in Logos 6
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Are any of the authors expressing interest with this and plan to interact as time permits?
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The following resources are currently enabled for Ask the Author:
- Greek Apocryphal Gospels, Fragments, and Agrapha
- Historic Creeds and Confessions
- Lexham Discourse Greek New Testament Bundle (6 vols.)
- Discourse Grammar of the Greek New Testament: A Practical Introduction for Teaching and Exegesis
- The End of the Matter: Understanding the Epilogue of Ecclesiastes
- Augustine versus Luther on Sin, Sexuality, and Salvation
- The Resurrected Servant in Isaiah
- Baptism in the Holy Spirit Collection (2 vols.)
- Fire Someone Today: And Other Surprising Tactics for Making Your Business a Success
The authors of these resources have already been notified and will be responding to questions/feedback you post as they have time. You can find and follow their Faithlife author groups here:
We plan to add many more authors in the future now that Logos 6 has launched.
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The following resources are currently enabled for Ask the Author:
- Greek Apocryphal Gospels, Fragments, and Agrapha
- Historic Creeds and Confessions
- Lexham Discourse Greek New Testament Bundle (6 vols.)
- Discourse Grammar of the Greek New Testament: A Practical Introduction for Teaching and Exegesis
- The End of the Matter: Understanding the Epilogue of Ecclesiastes
- Augustine versus Luther on Sin, Sexuality, and Salvation
- The Resurrected Servant in Isaiah
- Baptism in the Holy Spirit Collection (2 vols.)
- Fire Someone Today: And Other Surprising Tactics for Making Your Business a Success
The authors of these resources have already been notified and will be responding to questions/feedback you post as they have time. You can find and follow their Faithlife author groups here:
We plan to add many more authors in the future now that Logos 6 has launched.
2 Things Bradley:
1: Thank you for the responses on top of all of the craziness you guys have going on today. Professional as always and very gracious!
2: Other than what you supplied us, is there a page that will keep this list posted and up to date?
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Hi David,
Here's a list of authors that are confirmed administrators to their Faithlife Author groups.
Some of the authors below have passed away. In those instances, we're working with individuals or groups that are able to speak as an authority on the authors' works.
I encourage you to use the tool to communicate with other Logos readers as well as authors. Questions you post will be visible by anyone who owns the book in question in Logos--you may find insight from others working through the same resources!
We're working on a landing page that will list all authors currently active in their groups.I don't know exactly when this will go up on Logos.com but it's in the works!
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I rather doubt B B Warfield and Charles Spurgeon are going to be involved. I'm sure they're enjoying better things...
This is my personal Faithlife account. On 1 March 2022, I started working for Faithlife, and have a new 'official' user account. Posts on this account shouldn't be taken as official Faithlife views!
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[:D][Y]Mark Barnes said:I rather doubt B B Warfield and Charles Spurgeon are going to be involved. I'm sure they're enjoying better things...
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Mark Barnes said:
I rather doubt B B Warfield and Charles Spurgeon are going to be involved. I'm sure they're enjoying better things...
Kent Sanner said:Some of the authors below have passed away. In those instances, we're working with individuals or groups that are able to speak as an authority on the authors' works.
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Mark Barnes said:
I rather doubt B B Warfield and Charles Spurgeon are going to be involved. I'm sure they're enjoying better things...
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Kenneth Neighoff said:Mark Barnes said:
I rather doubt B B Warfield and Charles Spurgeon are going to be involved. I'm sure they're enjoying better things...
And when an 'expert' speaks on their behalf you can imagine one looking at the other and saying 'I didn't mean it that way at all'.
Never imagined that frustration might be a factor in heaven!
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Mike
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Well, this is the internet. If "Spurgeon" did reply would his post be instantly quotable?David Taylor Jr said:Mark Barnes said:I rather doubt B B Warfield and Charles Spurgeon are going to be involved. I'm sure they're enjoying better things...
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"The trouble with quotes on the Internet is that you can never know if they are genuine." --Abraham Lincoln
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Halo Hound said:
Well, this is the internet. If "Spurgeon" did reply would his post be instantly quotable?
Yep! And you could put it on a Spurgeon Visual Copy slide! [:D]
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Blasphemy!
I expect them to respond within 24 hours, or I will ask for my money back!
Ha.
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I wonder what I'm doing wrong. I tried to replicate the screen shot below:
Jonathan J Watson said:
But when I do I show 0 questions. Am I doing something wrong?
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This is my personal Faithlife account. On 1 March 2022, I started working for Faithlife, and have a new 'official' user account. Posts on this account shouldn't be taken as official Faithlife views!
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Agreed, I just submitted a question to see what would happen and it immediately disappeared but it still shows on the author's Faithlife page.
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I also notice that I don't have those little green boxes with the question mark in the text either. Was curious if there were others with/without them?
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But when I do I show 0 questions. Am I doing something wrong?
We have an issue where the visual filter is only showing up for the specific version of the resource the question was asked in. This is being worked on as we speak.I'm surprised the questions are not showing up in the ask the author pane however. I'll try to reproduce that, and file a case.
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Hi Seth, I was just curious if you were able to reproduce the problem or if it was working okay on your end?
I was also curious if anyone at Faithlife knew if the Ask the Author feature is what Bob was alluding to in this post or if there was something else in the works?
Thanks,
Ryan
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I was able to reproduce it. I didn't think the embedded ask the author view would be dependent on the version of the resource but it looks like it is. It makes sense for the visual filters since if the version changes they might be slightly offset into the wrong place. We have a solution that we are working through for it though.Ryan B said:Hi Seth, I was just curious if you were able to reproduce the problem or if it was working okay on your end?
I was also curious if anyone at Faithlife knew if the Ask the Author feature is what Bob was alluding to in this post or if there was something else in the works?
Thanks,
Ryan
I'm unsure if that is what Bob was referring to. Sounds like it might've been, but I can't say for sure.
Seth
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No problem. Thank you for taking the time out of a busy work day to give me a status update. I realize you have better things to do than respond to my post, but I do truly appreciate it.
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Hi Ryan,
We have fixed the problem with resource version mismatches so you should be able to make full use of Ask the Author now.
Thanks,
John
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Hi John,
I just tested it and it works great. Thank you so much for your hard work. We appreciate it.
Now if we could just get Logos to give us the author bio information [:D]
~ Ryan
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Kenneth Neighoff said:Mark Barnes said:
I rather doubt B B Warfield and Charles Spurgeon are going to be involved. I'm sure they're enjoying better things...
I was really hoping to be able to talk to Spurgeon
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I am hoping that the Databases (at least the Cultural Ontology Database) will be online soon, as I had a comment on cleft vs. crag
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data@logos.com. will get it to the right department, Scott.
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