Confessional Bible Study Filter
MJ. Smith
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Currently when one is doing a serious study of a Bible Passage, the Confessional documents section leads me to references in Confessional Statements such as The Westminster Confession of Faith, the Heidelberg Catechism, Credo of the People of God, The Baptist Faith and Message, etc. However, much of my reading (and I suspect all of many users' reading) is not serious research and does not easily lead them to references in the particular confessional documents of interest to them. I suggest that visual filters be built where the confessional documents are individually selectable. Bible references in the selected confessional document would be underlined in the Bible text. Mouse over the underline line, the Information Panel, and the Context Menu would show the references that are linked to and provide the link that opens the Confessional document. The reason for the filter rather than simply a label is to make the link passively available to the user - it is present to them if they want to see it - rather than requiring the user to take positive action to see data that is quite sparse. In other words, show me, don't make me ask.
Why? because Bible references that appear in the Confession have importance in my faith and some inherent meaning implied by the Confession.
Why? because Bible references that appear in the Confession have importance in my faith and some inherent meaning implied by the Confession.
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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Note: confessional documents includes catechisms. I would be inclined to treat documents from the Councils separately.
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., I like your idea. I have been adding the Westminster Confession of Faith to the Notes Tool manually, assigning the notes to a notebook called "WCF In-Line Notes," and anchoring each note to the WCF proof texts (I am using the OPC Proof Texts). Each note also has been assigned an icon (a green star). I did this so that, as I am simply reading the Bible, the icon would be present by the verses that I've anchored. Hovering over the icon shows exactly where in the WCF the verse has been referenced.
HOWEVER, yesterday, as I was finishing adding WCF chapter 4... the green star icons stopped showing up by my anchors . I am assuming that Logos 10 must limit the number of times we can anchor our notes to Scripture using an icon. I am not sure.
See the attached image, it explains what I was trying to do. Again, this was working great until the green star icons stopped showing up in the verses that I anchored... so I don't know how to finish the rest of the WCF.
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@Wes Weber It's sad that he didn't make it. I thought it was fully working when I downloaded your public notes. Still haven't figured out what the problem/solution is?
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