The Encyclopedia of Christianity

I put this resource in my priority list, but it is the only dictionary that doesn't seem to bring results back when I do a word search. For instance, I did a search for "salvation" and there is an entry for it, but it just doesn't come up. Why is this?

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Todd Phillips

From another thread (http://community.logos.com/forums/p/3470/27363.aspx#27363):

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First of all, "topic" has a new and different meaning in L4 (i'm going to call them concepts
here to try to keep the distinction straight). We've put a lot of work
into building a new framework for concepts that will provide much
better results going forward. Right now our concept coverage is very
incomplete: even though we have about 11,000 such concepts, they still
don't include much church history (so no Calvin yet), they only include
key Bible dictionaries (ISBE, Anchor, and some others), and they don't
yet include all the possible synonyms for a concept.

I think the dictionary has to be prepared to show up in the topic section. (assuming that where you were looking to find it)

Rich DeRuiter

How are you searching for it?

If I search for the term salvation I get almost 179,000 results in almost 84,000 articles. At the bottom of the search page I can scroll through at least 20 pages of results.Make sure you do a "Basic" search. Also check to make sure you're not just searching your last book. Logos remembers.

What you could try is creating a collection of dictionaries and include this one, then search the collection.

Jeremy

Sorry I forgot to mention that I am searching for it in the Word study. I like to do searches there if I am looking for just the main entry from a collection of resources.

By the way, I am loving the new Lexham resources, The Encyclopedia of Christianity Volume 4, and the Oxford Dictionary of the Church.

Melissa Snyder

Sorry I forgot to mention that I am searching for it in the Word study. I like to do searches there if I am looking for just the main entry from a collection of resources.

By the way, I am loving the new Lexham resources, The Encyclopedia of Christianity Volume 4, and the Oxford Dictionary of the Church.

Hi Jeremy,

The type associated with The Encyclopedia of Christianity Volume 4 (and Volumes 1-3) is 'Monograph' rather than 'Dictionary'. This is most likely why it does not appear in the Definition section of the Bible Word Study guide. I am checking on this.

Thanks,
Melissa

Jeremy

A monograph? Ahhhhhhhhh! I thought it was called "The Encyclopedia of Christianity" because it was a dictionary/encyclopedia. At the very least, couldn't a book have multiple Types?

Matthew C Jones

By the way, I am loving the new Lexham resources, The Encyclopedia of Christianity Volume 4, and the Oxford Dictionary of the Church.

WoW. I didn't even notice we have volume 4 included now. This is like Christmas all week long!

Jeremy

Sorry I forgot to mention that I am searching for it in the Word study. I like to do searches there if I am looking for just the main entry from a collection of resources.

By the way, I am loving the new Lexham resources, The Encyclopedia of Christianity Volume 4, and the Oxford Dictionary of the Church.

Hi Jeremy,

The type associated with The Encyclopedia of Christianity Volume 4 (and Volumes 1-3) is 'Monograph' rather than 'Dictionary'. This is most likely why it does not appear in the Definition section of the Bible Word Study guide. I am checking on this.

Thanks,
Melissa

I am using my Dictionary collection in my Word Study and the Encyclopedia of Christianity is in it, but I still am not able register this resource in my searches. I thought that by making a collection and using this collection as the only method of pulling resources, I would be able to finally be able to utilize the E. of C. in my Word Studies. Any clue as to why this keeps happening?