Pentecostal and Charismatic Should be Seperated

Hopefully Faithlife will be aware of these major differences and consider doing something about them.

My assumption is that they are aware. They often employ people from a variety of traditions (Reformed, Catholic, Orthodox, etc) and those people are often integral to base package creation.  As MJ notes above, a lot of the mixing of resources has to do with market and upgradeability of packages. I had a couple ideas and thoughts in my head as I read the thread:

1. Perhaps within P&C packages, they could create subcategories like they already do when they will distinguish "NT Studies" vs "OT Studies" or "19th Century Theology" from "20th Century Theology.  Accordingly they might distinguish "Pentecostal" from "Charismatic" or "1st Wave" from "3rd Wave."  My guess is, however, that in some cases there would be resources that are gray areas.  But this would be one way to delineate the two.  Delineating the two would also have a built in accountability to assess how much balance of the movements Logos is bringing to the BP: are they only offering 3 Pentecostal works while offering 23 Charismatic ones? (por ejemplo)  As a non P or C person, I would be helped by that delineation.

2. Be careful about assumptions that other base packages really reflect denominational unity.  I'd imagine Lutherans from the Wisconsin Synod would take exception to Lutheran works from the ELCA. On the one hand, they have a common tradition/roots, on the other hand, a wide-divergance. Even Catholic packages likely don't reflect the wide divergance of thought as say, between the Benedictines and the Jesuits, etc.  When you're an outsider, it's all the same ("motor oil is motor oil" ...referencing an old commercial). but to insiders: WHOA BABY, WE'RE NOTHING ALIKE!!!"

3. I think it was Graham Owen who said many Pentecostals do not get into Logos and stick with their Pentecostal publishing arms. I assume that means they are hardcopies and not really digitalized (except perhaps some ebooks?). If true, I imagine that is partly due to the lack of offering of Pentecostal material within Logos (and is that related to difficulty in getting contracts with those publishers or more about perceived market). But I wonder if it is also partly due to their own preferred work and study methods: 1) are they open to electronic study on a mass scale 2) do their study habits differ from methods at which Logos shines? 

4. Interestingly, I come from the "Restoration" movement that Denise seems to reference above (if I understood your reference to be to what is also referred to by outsiders as "Campbellites"). Not nearly as large as P or C or other denominations, but at least at one time was the largest indigenously generated movement/denomination in the US.  We have no base package.  We likely are as close to the Baptists as any, but I own by far fewer Baptist base packages.  I own more Verbum, Anglican, and P&C than I do Baptist. (we also have roots with the Presbyterians and Methodists). I wish we had more resources directly from our roots (early documents, etc). I wish some of the commentaries that are distinctively ours were more affordably placed within base packages.  And, frankly, I don't care for some chunks of our published stuff and would not buy it if it WAS in Logos...unless part of the fluff that makes up packages.

5. As a non P or C person, and from a tradition that, generally speaking, is a more cognitively-based tradition that shuns the more "charismatic" faith and practice traditions (ie, cessationists), I love getting resources, no-matter their P or C origins, that explore the more active working of the HS that my tradition generally has either ignored or even abhorred. At this point, I'd likely not more open to purchasing a basepackage that offered a smattering of those traditions than I would be interested in getting into the minutiae. For instance, I own several Anglican BP's, but am not excited the more they offer things about the organization and polity. I prefer accessing works that reveal their theology, whether monographs, dictionaries or commentaries.

I am curios: how might a typical, non-Logos using pastor rank the following reasons for not owning Logos:

-original language and in depth study using language and concordance-style tools is a foreign enterprise

-not enough Pentecostal works to make it worthwhile

-an aversion to owning anything Charismatic

-not having a healthy book budget

I realize this will only be by anecdotal or gut perceptions.

BTW when I upgrade I look at the Methodist packages before looking at the Pentecostal and Charismatic ones.

I was hoping for my works by Fee and similar in the PC packages. My guess is it is related to the strong, unbending arm of Baker Books. I also noticed this time around the Priscilla papers were in the MW collection, whereas last time they were PC. 

I live in a place where I bump elbows with people from 80+ different countries

that's cool. where?

I grew up in Germany (not native...as mk). That experience taught me more openness and humility when it came to communing outside my heritage's confines. ministering much later, in a school with large Ethiopian/Eritrean pop., then in Miami, and also near Detroit furthered both cultural and religious connections and awareness.  Always a maddening, refining and enriching process.

I have lived in China for 18 years.

Whoa! what an experience that has to have been!  I've never been to a culture like that.