How to identify all Catholic authored resources so I can hide them

Peter McCallum

Hello everyone.

Thank you for reading and / or replying.

I was Reformed Portfolio on Logos 9, I recently purchased the Collector Edition with Logos 10, thinking it would be a larger collection of Reformed resources. I certainly have a lot more of those, but I now have resources / books from Popes, and I doubt I would know any other names of Catholic authors to be able to manually hide them.

A bit of a conundrum and I feel like I am walking through a minefield now. I sought help from Logos Support, they mentioned they do not have the ability to categorize resources by denomination, I asked how they could offer the different base packages then, they suggested I come here to see if I could find help from another who has walked this particular  walk.

Thanks for any insight or direction.

- Pete

MJ. Smith

Welcome to the forums. There is no way to avoid all Catholic authored resources which would arguably include removing all resources written before the Reformation, including the Bible itself. The way to remove all resources that you perceive as being written by Catholics is to manual tag the books with a tag such as Catholic (or heresy or trash if it better fits your sense of humor). I say "that you perceive as being written by Catholics" as there are books written by authors bearing other denominational tags whose work is thoroughly Catholic. This is especially true of some Anglican, Lutheran, Orthodox, and mystical writers. Now create a collection of all your books minus the books with your tags. I do something similar to remove all "popular trash theology" from my library when I want to do academic work and don't want to wade through books intended for the popular market.

Simon’s Brother

The Collectors Edition contains all the Logos ( insert denomination) here Porfolio Libraries including the Stanard Portfolio Library. It's the big grab bag for those who want it all regardless of denomination. 

So not only have your got 'Reformed' and 'Catholic' authors but also  'Baptist', 'Anglican' 'Lutheran', 'Orthodox', 'Pentecostal & Charisatic', 'Messianic Jewish', 'Methodist & Wesleyan' authors  and no doubt authors from other traditons as well that are mixed into these lbiraries that don't have a speficic package of their own.   If you looked clossely at every author in your Logos 9 Reformed Portfolio library you will find not every author is 'Reformed'.  because in Reformed circles and seminaries you will find they don't just use books written by 'Reformed' authors.

So if you are not comfortable with reading the views of authors from some of these other denominations you are gong to have a lot more to tag and hide. And then you will have books in your library like the Perspectives and Counterpoint Series that include authors from diferent denominations or theological posistions dicussing their views on a given topics. So even individual books in your libary will be written by authors across denominations. 

If it was me I'd  tag all of the 'Reformed' authors that I was familar with and creating a collection based on this tag and using this collection to get only reformed views when this is important to what I was are trying to achieve. And at other times I'd look at my wider library to get a borad perspective. But that's just how I would go about it, not saying you have to take this approach.

Greg

To be complete you'd end up hiding the Bible too, or at least the New Testament, as it was written by Catholic authors.

NB.Mick

There are collections of authors per denomination and Logos even classifies commentaries per denomination (not yet exposed in the library, unfortunately), so of course it is possible to build such a collection or to simply use it. You might want to follow the Faithlife group https://faithlife.com/logos-library-theology-denomination-tags/activity then you can look e.g. in Logos under Documents / Groups and will find collections. 

 

DMB

Hello everyone.

Thank you for reading and / or replying.

I'm a tag'er. Every book that arrives, either gets a tag, or gets hidden. I recognize buying Collectors would be overwhelming, but the nice thing is, the tags (or collections) 'stick' for years and years. Worth the effort.

And I tag theology coming into the library. One for Catholic, one for Orthodox, and the rest for Protestant.  Yes, where not obvious, I 'thumb' the TOC. But author-wise, I tag by historical author ... they get ref'd frequently, so it's good to be able to see each author in my library.

Nice and neat.

Yasmin Stephen

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1314796#Comment_1314796

I'm a tag'er. Every book that arrives, either gets a tag, or gets hidden.

Same here. This is probably the single best thing I learned from the forums. And, thankfully, I learned it when my library was still small. New books get tagged first of all, then get recorded in my Calibre library.

Peter McCallum

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1314787#Comment_1314787

Thanks Simon's Brother, a good approach, I know most Reformed Authors, next to none for Catholic Authors.

Peter McCallum

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1314805#Comment_1314805

Thanks Yasmin, I will now be a Tag'er, and a Googler.

Peter McCallum

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1314787#Comment_1314787

Thanks for the welcoming M.J.

Dave Colclough

Pete, FYI. if you purchased the Collectors Edition within the last 30 days, and feel it is not meeting your needs/expectations, you can contact customer services and return it for a refund as Logos has a 'thirty-day money-back guarantee return period on all non-subscription products'.

Peter McCallum

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1314820#Comment_1314820

Thanks Dave, good to know.

Peter McCallum

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1314792#Comment_1314792

Thanks Mick. I will take a look.