Logos tools for analyzing sermons

MJ. Smith

I'm trying to solidify my thoughts on how to read/study written sermons (old and not so old) since Logos is publishing so many sermon collections especially in community pricing  This is my first cut at what Logos can and can't do. I'm looking for additions and modifications especially ways that use Logos 4.

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There are a number of tools which one can utilize to
highlight the aspects of a sermon that are of particular interest to you. Not
all of them are available directly in Logos, but with the Personal Book
capability you can preserve work that you have done outside Logos. Among the
possibilities:

• Create
  a Highlighting Template with styles for the following elements to “markup”
  the sermon:

•  
  • Scriptural quotation
  • Scriptural allusion
  • Exegesis
  • Eisegesis
  • Illustration
    / Exempla
  • Application
  • Theological assertion
  • Logical
    or rhetorical bridge

• [Expand Scriptural quotation /
  allusion] Use Notes to link the sermon’s quotations and allusions to
  their source.
• [Expand theological assertion] Use
  Notes to link the sermon’s theological points to creedal or seminal
  theological statements.
• Use
  word processor or mind mapping tool to outline the sermon. Include text or
  image in a Personal Book.

• [Expand exegesis] Use word
  processor or other table supporting software to analyze the exegesis in a
  manner similar to that demonstrated by Shai Cherry in his Torah Through
  Time: Note that this method emphasizes the historical context’s effect on
  exegesis. For each step of exegesis it identifies:
  • The interpretative
    problem
  • The
    resolution
  • The
    textual (interpretative) mechanism
  • The
    historical circumstance
• Use
  Sentence Diagrammer or word processor to apply discourse analysis to the
  sermon.
• Using
  a Markup Template or a word processor form, apply an “appropriate” sermon
  form (e.g. von Rad’s Levitical sermon or Wills’ word of exhortation) to
  the sermon – noting not only what fits but what does not work. Note: this
  is often a step towards analyzing a corpus of sermons rather than a single
  sermon.
• Use a
  word processor (or basic graphic program) and the Toulmin model of
  argumentation (or any argument mapping software) and trace the argument of
  the sermon.