Faithlife Study Bible

JJ Wurtz
JJ Wurtz Member Posts: 32 ✭✭
edited November 20 in Resources Forum

I have started looking through my books and I came across "Faithlife Study Bible." It has a ton of pictures and graphics which I love.  I just wish there was a Catholic version of this Study Bible that would go along with Catholic Bibles so that I could use this as one of my main study go to books.

Any thoughts?

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  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith Member, MVP Posts: 53,018 ✭✭✭✭✭

    so that I could use this as one of my main study go to books.

    Any thoughts?

    Logos is so thoroughly evangelical that they often don't even see that they are evangelical. However, with tools such as their Study Bible, they do make an effort to be broadly academic. And for most of Bible study, the basic academics are denominationally neutral except for very specific instances. So go ahead and use the Faithlife Study Bible heavily - it will normally be a solid reference - and if you are a well informed Catholic, trust that you will recognize the few places where Catholics have significant differences with what they present. Brown in the introductory materials in Birth of the Messiah, has a good section on academic vs faith content.

    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."

  • JJ Wurtz
    JJ Wurtz Member Posts: 32 ✭✭
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1322772#Comment_1322772

    Thanks!

  • David J. Ring, Jr.
    David J. Ring, Jr. Member Posts: 159

    I wish it had the additional books that are in the "Catholic" version of the bible, they've done such an excellent job, their addition is very much missed by all.

  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith Member, MVP Posts: 53,018 ✭✭✭✭✭
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1322823#Comment_1322823

    "Catholic" version of the bible

    I find in the context of the forum, it is more effective to refer to the ecumenical canon of the RSV/NRSV/NRSVue which covers the Eastern Orthodox canon i.e. slightly more than the Catholic Bible. The reason for doing so is that many in the mainstream Protestant churches have moved to the ecumenical canon in practice if not in theory.

    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."

  • NichtnurBibelleser
    NichtnurBibelleser Member Posts: 269 ✭✭
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1322772#Comment_1322772

    Brown in the introductory materials in Birth of the Messiah, has a good section on academic vs faith content.

    That sounds interesting, but I'm unable to find it in the FSB. Could you provide a link to this?

  • NB.Mick
    NB.Mick Member, MVP Posts: 15,834 ✭✭✭
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1322843#Comment_1322843

    Brown in the introductory materials in Birth of the Messiah, has a good section on academic vs faith content.

    That sounds interesting, but I'm unable to find it in the FSB. Could you provide a link to this?

    MJ. didn't refer to the FSB, but to Raymond Brown's book "The Birth of the Messiah", I think to this section: https://ref.ly/logosres/birthmssh?ref=Page.p+25 

    Have joy in the Lord! Smile

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