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Greek practice reading - a few sermons of Ephraim the Syrian
Okay, I don't even pretend to read Greek even at my most audacious. But I do need to set a pattern for languages other than Latin. At some point I may add milestones to the readings for both Greek and Latin … but I need to finish some documentation of datatypes before I can face that in languages in which I am not fluent.
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Note on copyright and personal books for articles especially from academic sites
More of the articles on the web carry this sort of a disclaimer: I understand this to mean there is no problem at all with my converting it to a .docx file and compiling it as a personal book on my own computer e.g. Note I did not even bother to attach the endnotes to their reference for this example. I also understand…
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Open Door (recent release) missing illustrations / pictures?
A new release, Mathewes-Green, Frederica. 2008. The Open Door: Entering the Sanctuary of Icons and Prayer. Brewster, Mass: Paraclete Press., is supposed to have illustrations, which are listed in the Table of Contents, but they're nowhere to be found in the book. The black-and-white illustrations are included, but not the…
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FREE BOOKS from the Friends library
First offerings: Walk in the Spirit by Hugh Turford, The Letters of John Thorp, The Great Mystery of the Great Whore by George Fox. They do offer modernized spelling and vocabulary but I opt for the original.
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English Bible Translations and Study Resources: Priorities & Recommendations
This summary provides a consolidated overview of essential resources currently unavailable in Logos/Verbum. It sets forth organized recommendations, each accompanied by a reasoned rationale, to inform future actions and optimize resource accessibility. Update Priorities ESV 2025: The English Standard Version (ESV)…
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Complete EEBO-TCP/PP Public Domain Puritan Collection - PB's - 6/13/25
Hello all, hope everybody is having a blessed day. By the Lords providence, I was made privy to a way to get all of the files prepared for a PB collection. This Collection is around 6,654 titles, from around 980 Puritans & 17th century Non-Conformists, taken from the Public Domain digital repository of EEBO-TCP and…
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CSEL Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum, AI, and random thoughts
The Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum (CSEL) is a series of critical editions of the Latin Church Fathers published by a committee of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. The CSEL is intended to include the ecclesiastical authors who wrote in Latin from the late 2nd century AD until the death of Bede in 735. The…
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More Latin practice texts
My apologies to those who have no inclination to practice reading Latin, but I have reason to want to get these all shared before producing an index of all available PB source files.
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FREE BOOKS: A bit of Latin practice
Yes, I know that the books Jason has recovered has kept you busy today but …
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Interested in Bible translations outside the mainstream
I just ran into an interesting site The Bible Hunter: The Apostles Teaching: A Chronological New Covenant
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A Short Exposition of Dr. Martin Luther's Small Catechism - Schwan
As traditional and orthodox as the Dietrich Catechism was, there were problems from the beginning. First of all, the prospect of having students memorize all 600 odd questions was daunting at best, especially with as long as some of the questions were. And so eventually Missouri Synod wrote its own catechism. It was called…
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Explanation of Luther's Small Catechism - Harald Ulrik Sverdrup
Luther wrote his Small Catechism in 1529. Since then various things have been added to it by various Lutheran groups. During Luther's life the exact content varied a bit, with various sections being supplemented and added to the core that was in the posters. Since we have no central authority world-wide, different…
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Gottlieb Shober - A comprehensive account of the rise and progress of the blessed reformation of the
In 1818 Gottlieb Schober (Americanized as G. Shober for this work - many names are Americanized in this work with Franke becoming Frank, for example) wrote a short history of the Reformation, how Lutherans came to North Carolina, and what they taught. Schober, while having a Moravian background, had been ordained to serve…
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Loehe - Questions and Answers to the Six Parts of the Small Catechism of Dr. Martin Luther
Wilhelm Loehe (or Johann Konrad Wilhelm Loehe) was quite important to my theological development. Way back I used For All the Saints, a Lutheran Breviary, and ran into some of his Prayers. I had never heard prayers that connected prayers that had substance like that before... So who was this guy? He was a Lutheran Pastor…
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Pliny the Younger on Christians
One of the most important primary sources on the early church was included in the Perceus collection - namely the letters of Pliny the younger. Unfortunately, they are in Latin only, for whatever reasons. This brief letter (and Trajan's briefer reply approving the policy) is a witness to how Romans saw the Christians at…
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"The Religious Tradesman" by Richard Steele
Full title: The Religious Tradesman; or Plain and Serious Hints of Advice for the Tradesman’s Prudent and Pious Conduct; from His Entrance into Business, to His Leaving It Off. By: Richard Steele (1629-1692), nonconformist minister and Puritan writer. Bio. Excellent advice for today for those doing business as a calling.…
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Triumph of the Lamb (by Ted Grimsrud) - a commentary on Revelation
Ted Grimsrud teaches theology and peace studies at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, VA. His commentary on Revelation, Triumph of the Lamb (Herald Press, 1987) is freely available online on his website (Peace Theology). I converted it to a PB for my own use and then asked him for permission to post it here,…
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Schmucker - Inaugural Address
This past weekend we had a discussion about all the great things available on the internet and compared that with the merits of a Seminary education. That reminded me of a potential PB that I had thought of doing in my continuing quest to bring in texts from Lutheran History... In 1826 Gettysburg Seminary opened its doors,…
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Little Journeys With Martin Luther
Church disunity is a lamentable fact, and we Lutherans have had a part in it. Sometimes this is for a theological reason. Sometimes it is for a theological reason that no one remembers. Sometimes it is for not so theological reasons... About a century ago a Pastor of the Joint Synod of Ohio (William Nicholas Harley) wrote…
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History of the Evangelical Lutheran Tennessee Synod - Socrates Henkel
The Evangelical Lutheran Tennessee Synod was founded by supporters of David Henkel in 1820. It was born in controversy, and its view of Lutheran Identity just simply didn't make sense to anyone back then. But it turned out that by going back to the Confessions, they were ahead of their time. They were pioneers. Pioneers in…
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Tixeront - Patrology - part 1
Probably about ten years ago I discovered the website http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/ and saw that one of the resources it had online for many of the writers was the section from Tixeront. I found that they were decent, even if quite dated, summaries of issues for these writings from a Roman Catholic perspective of…
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The treatise of Irenæus of Lugdunum against the heresies; a translation of the principal passages, w
Irenaeus' magnum opus, his "Against Heresies" is one of the first theological classics. Many of his concerns are with us today, and many theologians of today have learned quite a bit from him. But the actual five books against heresies are a bit rambling, and long winded, at least to us. And so there have been a few…
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Franz Pieper - Conversion and Election: a plea for a united Lutheranism in America
Almost one hundred years ago, the Norwegian Lutherans in the USA grew tired of a generation long fight over Predestination and in theological discussions in Madison, hammered out a theological agreement. It outlined two different "forms" used by Lutherans to describe predestination, and condemned some points of view that…
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The treatise of Irenæus of Lugdunum against the heresies; a translation of the principal passages, w
In http://community.logos.com/forums/t/72215.aspx I released the first volume of this work. But that was only books 1-3 of Against Heresies. This continuation includes Books 4 and 5 of Irenaeus' work - finishing it up. Source is http://archive.org/details/treatiseofiren02iren is the source for my PB. Again, I repeat the…
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On the Ruin of Britain
On the Ruin of Britain by Gildas the Wise
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George McCready Price - Q.E.D.
A bit ago, I was asked about Young Earth Creationism, and, to be honest, I have not really dealt with any real attempts to defend this point of view. And so I went to wikipedia to find out a bit more. In the process, I found out about George McCready Price as an early proponent of this, and looked for a work by him which…
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PB - Revelation Bible Study Charts
PB - Revelation Bible Study Charts
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FREE BOOKS: Two niche books from the spiritualist side of "denominations"
These books are not general knowledge Christian reading, rather they are examples of texts supplementing or replacing the more common Christian canon. Both are established in the sense of having study groups internationally devoted to the texts. Urantia's fourth section is devoted to Jesus, an interesting rereading of our…
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FREE BOOK: Old translation of Anselm with an introduction with various philosophical critiques
Yes, this is a CCEL book where other translations exist in Logos but the philosophical critique in the introduction justifies this taking space in your library.
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FREE BOOK: 2013 from Hans K. a Berean on apostolic writings
This is a file that I got through the forums but can't find on the forums … one of my introductions to the Bereans.
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Link to The Case for the Existence of God
The Case for the Existence of God is the website for the pdf to convert into .docx to make a PB. As I read their copyright notice, I cannot offer the .docx file on another site. Not sure how it was first shared with me, but its been in my collection for a long time … probably from some apologetics discussion.
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Bible translation for little kids?
Regarding grade-school aged kids, the only translation I really know of is the Living Bible, but I have heard people complain about that translation for taking too much license. Given that, is there a Bible version anyone could recommend which is about the reading level of the Living Bible?
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Evangelical Exegetical Commentary update
Can we please get an update to the EEC? Thanks
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Missing sale
Meant to be $4.99 until August 31
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[Lexicons] Bible Word Study showing - & empty spaces for ἴδε
As per title, just bringing this up to attention, might have to do with the Resource Brill's GE itself rather than the Logos App as other resources appeared normal. Update : As pointed out by DAL in the after post, other lexicons appeared blank as well. Anomalies appeared only in MacOS, Android & iOS platforms. Issues:…
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Justin Martyr - 1st Apology
For some reason, I don't remember exactly why when I was in school I wanted to know more about some of the earliest Christian writings and so made a special order from the school bookstore of Cyril C. Richardson's Early Christian Fathers. My dead-tree edition has been quite heavily used by me over the years. It was with…
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UBS6/NA29 coming out soon, How does Logos typically package new Critical Editions?
With the recent pre-order showing up for the UBS6 Readers edition and the Textual commentary on the new edition (both releasing June '25)- it is certain the new editions of the Critical Apparatus and GNT text are just around the corner. It had me thinking, how does Logos typically do the new releases of critical editions…
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Schmucker - Popular Theology
In 1826 Samuel Simon Schmucker became the first theological professor for the oldest presently existing Lutheran Seminary in the United States of America. At first he translated a 2 volume Dogmatic work from Germany for his students but found that they didn't have the background for it. And so he wrote one - Elements of…
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Why Missouri Stood Alone
In 1922, to celebrate its 75th anniversary, The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod released a book covering many aspects of its history. LC-MS is infamous for being standoffish, and this has led to some bad press, especially from a press that does not know where we come from. This is not a new concern. And so one of the essays…
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Harkey - The Church's Best State
I thought that, for fairness sake I should release some of the "other side" of the Nevin - no matter how much I am in sympathy with him. And so I picked this book written by Simeon W. Harkey a year before the Nevin tract to let a spokesperson for these "new measures" speak in their own words. Simeon W. Harkey was a…
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Nevin - The Anxious Bench - 2nd Edition
This book admittedly stretches the guidelines that I try to follow to not use Logos servers to compete with Logos products. Logos has a collection of works from the great German Reformed theologian, John Nevin in the Community Pricing program. That collection has the original of this tract. I very much encourage you to…
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Benjamin Kurtz - Why are you a Lutheran?
S.S. Schmucker was not the only figure in "American Lutheranism". He was probably the major intellectual force for it, but the popular mouthpiece was Benjamin Kurtz. In 1843 he released a book called Why are you a Lutheran? in which he explains his view of Lutheranism in largely non-technical, popular terms. This book was…
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Sartorius - The Doctrine of Divine Love
Talking about Ethics is problematical in the Church today... In fact, a significant treatment on this topic, namely, _You Lost Me_ was a vyrso freebie about a month ago. Too many people hear our Christianity as just an out of date ethical system, and when they feel like they cannot relate to that system, just drift away.…
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FREE BOOK: Sermon by Honorius of Autun in English and Latin/ Elucidarium
Okay, this one is annotated in a way that reminds us most of us read transcripts not original manuscripts … If the author is not familiar to you, check out wikipedia Elucidarium - Wikipedia for a more famous work, translated into several vernacular, etc. etc. The translation I found is a thesis from 1979 hence under…
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Navigating Genesis
I've been requesting this book for many years, so I'm grateful to finally see it in pre-pub.
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Personal Book: Sahih Muslim
Nothing fancy, converted from a PDF; TOC entries at the Book level, but the "Numbers" are all 4-digit with leading zeros, so you can use Ctrl+F to go to a specific one. No links to the Quran or other Muslim resources. I don't study Islam, but am somewhat familiar with it and have this and other Islam resources for…
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PB: Study questions for all four Lexham Discourse Bibles.
I built this PB to help me get past the technical aspects of discourse grammar and focus more on the meaning and message of the text that the discourse devices are intended to support. Background and instructions are in the document. You can easily modify it for your own needs. Please reply to this post with any…
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FREE BOOKS: Oriental Orthodox including homilies and saints
Some books in my library but not previously shared as far as I can tell.
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FREE BOOK: lesser known Augustine of Hippo works; more Alphonsus
Well, at least this was unknown to me …
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Curious about Doukhabors and their Spiritual Christian brethren ???
I've found one book but primarily I have found "notes" that have been useful in helping me understand these groups. Calling them personal books may be stretching it a bit but you may also find them useful - and it will save you significant time in researching.