I want to create a church history collection. Do you have any suggestions for the rule to create a useful collection?
A relatively simple one that does a pretty good job is:
subject:("church history", reformation, "doctrines--history", "history of doctrines", "doctrinal--history", "early church")
You can leave out the history of doctrines stuff if you don't want that.
The rule I use is:
subject:("church history","reformation") OR mytag:("church history","christian biography") OR (type:(dictionary,encyclopedia) AND subject:christianity) OR (subject:biography ANDNOT subject:("Jesus Christ--biography","bible--biography","apostles--biography"))This rule includes- biographic works (excluding bios of those in the Bible) -- this assumes all the bio. works in my library are Christian, which holds true for now.- church history encyclopedias like the Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church- works that I've manually tagged because they were missing proper subject taggingBut it doesn't include doctrinal history because I have a separate collection for that.
Thank you for your suggestions. Much appreciated.
A relatively simple one that does a pretty good job is: subject:("church history", reformation, "doctrines--history", "history of doctrines", "doctrinal--history", "early church")
More complex Church History collection rule that includes history of doctrines:
(Subject:(Biography,Early,History,Reformation),Title:(Histor,Mennonite,Refomation,Walden)) AND (Subject:(Baptists,Calvin,Church,Cranmer,Confession,Doctrine,Mennonite,Reformation,Tyndale,Waldenses,Wycliffe),Title:(Church,Doctrine,Magazine))
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