Logos and Verbum
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Thank you. I appreciate it.
I don't understand why they wouldn't keep them more uniform. Verbum users wouldn't be interested in these external sites? I got my masters at Loyola University. Biblical studies was not considered a parochial matter. And Verbum users don't need help?
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Larry Craig said:
I don't understand why they wouldn't keep them more uniform.
Neither do I. But, trust me, you don't want my opinion ... far too long and detailed. Let's just say I usually turn to belief-revision logic to discuss the issues. I understand why Faithlife maintains two product lines but I believe that FL erroneously believes that there is a definable line between the two groups of users. There is not - there is a continuum. FL could cut costs by keeping the underlying code uniform and recognizing the continuum.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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If your opinion is in written form, one can usually scan it and find the important stuff. In oral form, it can be hard to keep one's attention.
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Larry Craig said:
If your opinion is in written form . . .
It is more a matter of language as I discovered when trying to explain to a Christian Scientist why an anthropology class was using Christian Science as an example for the life-cycle of a cult. She couldn't get past her own negative associations with the word "cult" to understand the neutral anthropological definition that assumes all religions begin as a cult.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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- An extended default Cannon beyond the 66 books of the Protestant Cannon (thanks, DoC)
- The ability to show Saint of the Day in home page with a link to reading about the Saint (thanks, DoC)
As support for the fact that the churches/users are a continuum without a fixed dividing line:
- Technically both the Anglicans and the Lutherans support larger canons as well - the degree to which this occurs in practice depends upon the country, language, and individual church. The Orthodox canons are generally larger than the Catholic.
- Saints of the Day are also a feature of the Anglicans, Lutherans, some Presbyterians, some Methodists, all flavors of Orthodox ...
In software design, failure to recognize the continuum has resulted in more work and a less useful product.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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MJ. Smith said:
She couldn't get past her own negative associations with the word "cult" to understand the neutral anthropological definition that assumes all religions begin as a cult.
Sitting here laughing at the situation. I can imagine it happening within my own denomination.
We could do with a symbol to be used next to a word such as "cult" to signify that it was being used in a technical, non-pejorative sense.
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