Theology Guide-Geisler

I can not get the Theology Guide to search my 4 volume Norman Geisler Systematic Theology as a preferred resource. I have it prioritized and selected as preferred. Why will it not include this set in the Theology Guide tool when I search various theological terms. I have used very broad terms and more specific terms.

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MJ. Smith

Are you speaking of the Systematic Theologies section? If so you chose between these sequences: by resource, by articles, by rank or by count. Prioritization is not included as an options and will not be reflected.

Kiyah

I can not get the Theology Guide to search my 4 volume Norman Geisler Systematic Theology as a preferred resource. I have it prioritized and selected as preferred. Why will it not include this set in the Theology Guide tool when I search various theological terms. I have used very broad terms and more specific terms.

The Theology Guide uses the Lexham Survey of Theology for the main article in the Topic section. Unfortunately you can't change that. It's not based on your prioritized resources. You should be seeing it in the Systematic Theologies section as one of the results. But again, it's not sorted by priority.

Clinton Marshall

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1141531#Comment_1141531

Thank you. I think I am figuring this out but I thought that the reason for prioritizing resources was so they would be searched first in ALL the guides?

Clinton Marshall

There must be something wrong with the indexing of the Norman Geisler 4 vol. systematic theoloy.

even though I search all volumes I get nothing on some searches. for instance.

Election nothing in Geisler

Predestination nothing in Geisler

God the Holy Spirit NOTHING found in Geisler? I have use the drop down so the Lexham topic shows up.

OK The doctrine of the Church showed up. But there are many MAJOR theological terms not showing up in Geisler. Should someone check the indexing?

Clinton Marshall

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1141622#Comment_1141622

by the way when I search "All Systematic Theologies still the same result.

Andrew Batishko

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1141622#Comment_1141622

Election nothing in Geisler

Predestination nothing in Geisler

God the Holy Spirit NOTHING found in Geisler?

Can you show me exactly where in Geisler you are expecting to see these topics linked to?

The Systematic Theologies section isn't showing places where the word is mentioned (use a search for that). It's showing places where there is an article or significant block of text about the subject.

Dave Hooton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1141617#Comment_1141617

Thank you. I think I am figuring this out but I thought that the reason for prioritizing resources was so they would be searched first in ALL the guides?

No! You prioritize resources primarily for lookup e.g. in the Context menu, Parallel Resources - books that have an index other than Volume/Page. So that excludes most monographs and theological books that appear in Theology Guide. That also applies to Sermon books with the Sermon Guide, and Counseling books with the Counseling Guide. In fact, Faithlife have to tag books before they can appear in these Guides, and their order is usually by Title. Similarly with books that appear in other sections of Guides, like Journals and Personal Letters.

Faithlife have to tag bible dictionaries before they can appear in Topic Guide, but you can prioritize these books to determine their order. Prioritization also affects the order of commentaries in Passage Guide & Exegetical Guide, and the order of lexicons that appear in Bible Word Study, but they do not have to be tagged as above.

Clinton Marshall

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1141678#Comment_1141678

Thank you I am figuring that out. I guess the book titles and subtitles are not overly conducive to some search features. But yes I can find things with specific "word" searches. Make the "guide" a little less useful. I have found this same issue with some other resources. But hey I am enjoying learning the program.

I am posting a couple of screen shots that I assumed the Theology Guide would take me.

Clinton Marshall

I assumed the Theology guide would take me to this place and just as an example I searched Theology Guide for "Election"

Kyle G. Anderson

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1141762#Comment_1141762

Hi Clinton

Thank you for the examples. When we annotated the resource we took a slightly higher level approach to the resource. I think there is some additional annotation work we could do that would be helpful. Generally speaking we're trying to walk a line between mentions (we probably don't want to annotate) and in-depth discussions on a Theology Guide concept (we definitely do want to annotate). It's the middle ground between the two that can get fuzzy. We'll take a look at this one and see if we can pick up a bit more coverage.

Clinton Marshall

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1141788#Comment_1141788

Thank you, I understand. Keep up the good work.

Jeremy Archer

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1141914#Comment_1141914

Does this also impact searching by word or by Bible reference when searching "All systematic theologies"?

It is a little astonishing to me that search for a specific word returns no results from Grudem's ST.

Jeremy Archer

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1141922#Comment_1141922

If I make a new collection of ST texts and search that way it fixes this problem.

Maybe the real issue here is that neither Grudem nor Geisler's texts are properly categorized as systematic theologies?

Andrew Batishko

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1141922#Comment_1141922

Does this also impact searching by word or by Bible reference when searching "All systematic theologies"?

That's a different problem. I responded on your other thread.