Data bug? Second century = modern ....... from WHAT perspective?

MJ. Smith

1. Create a Passage Guide with nothing but a Systematic Theologies section

2. Run the Guide on Gen-Rev

3. Expand the theologians section

4. Expand Modern Catholic

Note the resource is a collection of excerpts from 1st-5th century (not exactly modern)

Berington, Joseph, and John Kirk. The Faith of Catholics: Confirmed by Scripture and Attested by the Fathers of the First Five Centuries of the Church. Edited by James Waterworth and Thomas J. Capel. Second Edition. Vol. I–III. New York; Cincinnati: Fr. Pustet & Co., 1885.

Seems a bit misplaced to me ...

Rick Brannan (Logos)

Hi MJ

The application of "denominational perspective" is explained in the documentation for the dataset:

Public, known information of each author of a systematic theology resource has been reviewed and an appropriate denominational or traditional label has been applied to the resource as a whole.
Rick Brannan and Peter Venable, Systematic Theology Cross-References: Dataset Documentation (Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2015).

This is the perspective we can best associate with the author/editor at time of book publication, not necessarily the perspective of the excerpt/context in which the reference occurs.

Might not always in every situation be the best, but it was the most consistent measure we could apply at the level we needed to apply.