L/V 10+ Tip of the Day #318 Use of Concordance tool for non-Bibles: references and works cited

MJ. Smith

Another tip of the day (TOTD) series for Logos/Verbum 10. They will be short and often drawn from forum posts. Feel free to ask questions and/or suggest forum posts you'd like to see included. Adding comments about the behavior on mobile and web apps would be appreciated by your fellow forumites. A search for "L/V 10+ Tip of the Day site:community.logos.com" on Google should bring the tips up as should this Reading List within the application.

This tip is inspired by the forum post: Today I learned this about the Concordance tool! - Logos Forums

First, you can use the Concordance tool on any book in your library. That never occurred to me. 

Second, you can use the Concordance tool to view References, which is exciting. You can see just how frequently (or infrequently) an author cites Scripture, church fathers, etc.

Third (and this is really interesting), you can use the Concordance tool to view Works Cited, creating a live bibliography at your fingertips. I'll tell you why this means so much to me. As a preaching pastor and not a theologian, I don't have time to be knowledgeable about every author or resource. When I find an author to be accurate and true to the Scriptures, I have a tendency to trust the sources THEY trust. Using the Concordance to examine Works Cited tells me (generally speaking) who the author of a commentary or monograph trusts, which helps me as well. 

That's all; have a blessed day!