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Verbum only default collections sections
There are three occurrences of the Collections guide section in the Verbum default Passage Guide. These are set to three predefined collections. The documentation describes them as:[quote]
• Collections - Catechism — Searches the preset Catechism Collection.
• Collections - Church Documents — Searches the preset Church Documents Collection.
• Collections - Church Fathers — Searches the preset Church Fathers Collection.[1]
I have found no definitions but I mentally add “Catholic” to the front of each of these collections.
To compare the predefined collections/text groupings:
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Ancient Literature
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Catholic Topical Index
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Confessional Documents
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Predefined Collections
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Library
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Ancient Near-Eastern Material
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Apostolic Fathers
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Church Fathers
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Dead Sea Scrolls (Sectarian Material)
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Judaica
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Old Testament Pseudepigrapha
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Nag Hammadi Codices
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New Testament Apocrypha
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Works of Josephus
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Author: Josephus
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Works of Philo
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Author: Philo
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Sacred Scripture
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Type: Bible
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Church Teaching
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Liturgy
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Type: Service book
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Canon Law
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Ecclesiastical Writers
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Confessional Document
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Type: Confessional Documents
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Catechism
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Type: Catechism and certain resources from Systematic Theology and Confessional Documents
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Church documents
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Church Fathers
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Note:
- Ecclesiastical Writers overlaps apostolic fathers and church fathers
- Church Fathers in Ancient Literature is not the same as Church Fathers as a predefined collection. The latter is closer to Ecclesiastical Writers in its content. The former is closer to Patristics.
Some of the resource types are new and some of the groups are manually maintained. Please report any errors or omissions. I find it useful to have a personal saved guide consisting of these guide sections:
- Ancient Literature
- Catholic Topical Index
- Collection (Church Fathers)
- Confessional Documents
- Collections (Catechism)
- Collections (Church Documents)
- Liturgy (optional, added occasionally)
This guide keeps one focused on primary texts, authoritative texts, and collateral literature.
Ancient Literature
By type
By work
Catholic Topical Index
Collection (Church Fathers)
By articles
Ranked
By resource
By count
Confessional Documents
Subject
Resource
Collections (Catechism)
By articles
Ranked
By resource
By count
Collections (Church Documents)
By articles
Ranked
By resource
By count
Liturgy (optional, added occasionally)
Use of data
I find this information more useful than commentaries in that it shows me the scripture in action, in real life rather than the scripture as text on a page. I often make notes in a chart format, noting for each reference:
- Reference
- Aspect of passage it uses
- What its use tells me about their understanding of the passage
- Personal notes
I find this slows me down enough to actual think about each item rather than skimming through the list with a few sagely nods and no increase in knowledge.
[1] Verbum Help (Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2018).
