Reading plan for Augustine's On the Trinity

The Facebook group "Reading the City of God" is now reading Augustine's On the Trinity. I'm trying to recreate the reading plan in Logos / Verbum (which is how I think the plan was created in the first place).

The library item is Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers 1.3: St. Augustin: On the Holy Trinity, Doctrinal Treatises, Moral Treatises (Catholic Edition)

The range is Augustine, On the Trinity (not the whole volume). [This is where I'm stuck.] The volume has an active index.

The plan starts on April 6, ends on November 4 and has readings every day of the week except Sunday.

Any help would be much appreciated.

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Deacon Steve

Hi Paul,

Welcome to the forums. [:)]

Have you looked through the information on this page? It may help.

https://wiki.logos.com/Reading_Plan_$28Basics$29

... and another page with some additional details.

https://wiki.logos.com/Reading_Plans

George Somsel

The Facebook group "Reading the City of God" is now reading Augustine's On the Trinity. I'm trying to recreate the reading plan in Logos / Verbum (which is how I think the plan was created in the first place).

The library item is Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers 1.3: St. Augustin: On the Holy Trinity, Doctrinal Treatises, Moral Treatises (Catholic Edition)

The range is Augustine, On the Trinity (not the whole volume). [This is where I'm stuck.] The volume has an active index.

The plan starts on April 6, ends on November 4 and has readings every day of the week except Sunday.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Without creating a reading plan, it appears that it would amount to less than 2 chapters per day.

Paul Soper

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/713925#Comment_713925

Hi Steve,

Thanks for the pointer. I eventually stumbled across the answer, but it appears not to be covered in the documentation. Here are what the starting and end points of De Trinitate look like:

See if you can guess what eventually worked.

Here are my various attempts to eliminate the pink warning of an unintelligible range.

Page numbers do not work:

Volumes and pages don't work (I'm just trying to find something that isn't pink at this point):

Book and pages don't work:

Maybe the overall book, using Verbum's nomenclature?

What about just the title of the overall book?

What about the title of the book and the range of the books in the book?

It worked!

Here's what the table of contents looks like (without expanding the books into chapters):

So, there is at least one book which is not a Bible, and where page numbers do not work in developing a reading plan.

Verbum's approach makes some sense. If one were to reference a passage in De Trinitate, one would use the book, chapter, and section - not the page number of a particular edition. The same is true for all the Church Fathers, Aquinas' two Summa, documents of ecumenical councils, papal encyclicals, etc.

I think it would behoove Logos / Verbum to update their reading plan help section with an explanation of how to enter page ranges for books of this sort.

Thanks, Paul