L10 Denominational Packages: What looks good?

So, we did this with L9, but so far I have not seen a thread of this for L10: which denominational base packages look like particularly good values? With L9 I ended up an academic base package, but this time they’re looking a little lacklustre, perhaps because I already own quite a few of the resources. OTOH, Academic Professional does have TDOT, which I haven’t been able to lay my hands on yet.

Orthodox Silver and up has J. Pelikan’s The Christian Tradition, which is currently on pre-pub and is an essential for historical theology. A number of the other Gold packages have it too.

What’s catching your eye? I’m especially interested in Gold and lower packages as, let’s face it, higher packages are necessarily going to have a lot of good stuff in them.

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Donovan R. Palmer

My library is very well developed from years of investment going back to Series X, so I think that is a big factor for me. Sure there are always a few more things that would be nice to have (I.e. Ancient Christian Writers, Fathers of the Church Series, Journals - who can have enough journals!?!), but I can’t justify four figure upgrades to get this stuff because I won’t use them enough.

So for me, I am leaning towards Silver Standard and Baptist Bronze. This is a nice little upgrade that gets me Carta (finally after years of wanting it in Logos). There are a few other bits and pieces in there, particularly some of the Holman Titles that I just enjoy for various reasons.

David Wanat

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1228690#Comment_1228690

As a Catholic (so my strategy might not work for others), this is how I approach it:

My priority is always Verbum and it’s sub groups (Eastern and Ordinariate) first. after that comes Orthodox as there can be some useful overlap with Eastern patristic writings. Third is Anglican as it sometimes supplements the Ordinariate set. Fourth, the Messianic Judaism sets might have useful Jewish texts.

After that, it depends on whether it has a resource I want at a better price than buying it separately. But, as I’ve gotten a large number of the foundational works from previous version, there’s less reason for me to buy those sets.

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1228800#Comment_1228800

David, my pattern is very similar to yours except for two points: (1) I check out the Lutheran packages after the Anglican although this cycle there was nothing of interest (2) I no longer check the Messianic Judaism packages as the ratio of what I wanted and what I didn't has turned against me.

Michael

So, we did this with L9, but so far I have not seen a thread of this for L10: which denominational base packages look like particularly good values? With L9 I ended up an academic base package, but this time they’re looking a little lacklustre, perhaps because I already own quite a few of the resources. OTOH, Academic Professional does have TDOT, which I haven’t been able to lay my hands on yet.

Orthodox Silver and up has J. Pelikan’s The Christian Tradition, which is currently on pre-pub and is an essential for historical theology. A number of the other Gold packages have it too.

What’s catching your eye? I’m especially interested in Gold and lower packages as, let’s face it, higher packages are necessarily going to have a lot of good stuff in them.

Orthodox Silver is what I ended up going with. As a lay leader that's interested in church history and the writings of the church fathers, it hit the sweet spot based on what I already owned from previous upgrades. I didn't have ISBE and ACCS yet. Those resources with the new L10 features were worth it for the package. The rest of was huge bonus and good fit for my interests. J. Pelikan's The Christian Tradition is definitely of interest to me as well.

David Wanat

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1228930#Comment_1228930

David, my pattern is very similar to yours except for two points: (1) I check out the Lutheran packages after the Anglican although this cycle there was nothing of interest (2) I no longer check the Messianic Judaism packages as the ratio of what I wanted and what I didn't has turned against me.

I haven’t looked too deeply this time as money is tight. It may turn out my interests this time line up with yours.

abondservant

So, we did this with L9, but so far I have not seen a thread of this for L10: which denominational base packages look like particularly good values? With L9 I ended up an academic base package, but this time they’re looking a little lacklustre, perhaps because I already own quite a few of the resources. OTOH, Academic Professional does have TDOT, which I haven’t been able to lay my hands on yet.

Orthodox Silver and up has J. Pelikan’s The Christian Tradition, which is currently on pre-pub and is an essential for historical theology. A number of the other Gold packages have it too.

What’s catching your eye? I’m especially interested in Gold and lower packages as, let’s face it, higher packages are necessarily going to have a lot of good stuff in them.

I picked up Baptist Gold, Reformed Gold, and Academic Professional, with an eye towards portfolio for those two traditions.

Baptist Portfolio is loaded with Sermons, and tons of the classic commentary and studies sets. Reformed portfolio has NICOT/NT, a good selection of the classic commentary and studies set, some of the HD commentaries (I don't have the full set), REC, Carta, Pink, Kuyper, and Barth.

Standard Portfolio is on my radar too, because of Lightfoot, Murray, Ryle, Torrey, Ironside, Geerhardus Vos, the dispensationalists are of medium interest. The Journals are interesting too. Greek and Hebrew language books are frequently on my short list, and there are plenty of those (and latin) in Standard Portfolio. This package has a well filled out sermon section too - Platt, Carson, Rogers, Piper, Whitefield, and Talmage. Nac, and the IVP are good additions here too. Though I have both of those.

One caveat. Baptist Gold says it has the COMPLETE bible study library. But it is decidedly incomplete. The completely incomplete complete library is included all except two volumes - The interlinears.

Brian Davidson

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1229094#Comment_1229094

It’s Reformed Portfolio (not Gold) that has NIC, before anyone has a heart attack or drops their phones in must-buy panic

abondservant

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1229113#Comment_1229113

Fixed it, thanks.

DMB

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1229113#Comment_1229113

And for anyone that wants to fill in their library with a good grouping of conservative leaning commentaries (including all of NIC):

https://www.logos.com/product/229202/logos-10-poteupolrio

Yes, some Korean, of course. Good stuff.

Sean

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1229015#Comment_1229015

Orthodox Silver is what I ended up going with. As a lay leader that's interested in church history and the writings of the church fathers, it hit the sweet spot based on what I already owned from previous upgrades. I didn't have ISBE and ACCS yet. Those resources with the new L10 features were worth it for the package. The rest of was huge bonus and good fit for my interests. J. Pelikan's The Christian Tradition is definitely of interest to me as well.

Yeah right now Orthodox Silver with a Full Feature Upgrade is sitting in my cart and what I'm most likely to go with. I'll also likely grab a handful of Starter Packages. Those are almost a good value, and the dynamic cart pricing is dropping them down to about $10 each.

(Baptist Starter has the full Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia, which I had to miss when it was on pre-pub, plus at least 3 titles by Joachim Jeremias!)

Kathleen Marie

Some things that got me to click "buy"

Nelson's New Illustrated Bible Manners and Customs

https://www.logos.com/product/2266/nelsons-new-illustrated-bible-manners-and-customs

Sacramentum Mundi: An Encyclopedia of Theology (6 vols.)

https://www.logos.com/product/197249/sacramentum-mundi-an-encyclopedia-of-theology

Seventh Day Adventist Bible Commentary

https://www.logos.com/product/38875/seventh-day-adventist-bible-commentary-standard-edition

Carta Understanding Series

https://www.logos.com/product/205438/carta-understanding-series

Stan Toler's Practical Guide to Solo Ministry

https://www.logos.com/product/16407/stan-tolers-practical-guide-to-solo-ministry

Wrinkled but Not Ruined: Counsel for the Elderly

https://www.logos.com/product/193314/wrinkled-but-not-ruined-counsel-for-the-elderly

Mobile Ed: CO111 Gospel-Centered Counseling (7 hour course)

https://www.logos.com/product/45304/mobile-ed-co111-gospel-centered-counseling

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1229210#Comment_1229210

Sacramentum Mundi: An Encyclopedia of Theology (6 vols.)

https://www.logos.com/product/197249/sacramentum-mundi-an-encyclopedia-of-theology

Thanks for the heads-up. Just picked this up very inexpensively. Would have been $149.99 reg price, but it's included in Verbum 10 Academic Essentials, which I got for the dynamic price of $18.32 even though the remaining resources in it which I didn't have yet totaled a whopping $396.90 in value! I think that must be the best dynamic price deal I've ever gotten!

Dave Hooton

Well, I've seen nothing that appeals whereas I bought 3 packages from L9, including Silver, which is my notional level.

Kathleen Marie

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1229242#Comment_1229242

Sacramentum Mundi: An Encyclopedia of Theology (6 vols.)

https://www.logos.com/product/197249/sacramentum-mundi-an-encyclopedia-of-theology

Thanks for the heads-up. Just picked this up very inexpensively. Would have been $149.99 reg price, but it's included in Verbum 10 Academic Essentials, which I got for the dynamic price of $18.32 even though the remaining resources in it which I didn't have yet totaled a whopping $396.90 in value! I think that must be the best dynamic price deal I've ever gotten!

I got some amazing deals, too. Especially because I had recently bought a L9 package. I don't know what I paid for what, because I had a cart full that was bringing down all the prices and then a big coupon off the final price. I did not upgrade to V10 because I wanted the new features; I wanted the resources in the packages.

SineNomine

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1229244#Comment_1229244

I already own most of the stuff that Faithlife currently sells that I would like to own, especially of the stuff from publishers that let their resources be in base packages, so my V10 & L10 purchases tended to be for resources that are new to the Faithlife ecosystem or at least new to base packages.

I was pleasantly surprised to find a number of Catholic homily/sermon-related resources in Baptist Portfolio, thanks to its inclusion of https://www.logos.com/product/204590/sermon-finder-feature-expansion-collection. How https://www.logos.com/product/51477/sunday-sermons-of-the-great-fathers-volumes-1-4 made it into Baptist Portfolio but not into any Verbum (or Orthodox) libraries I don't know, but I hope it benefits everyone who picks it up. Maybe the Sunday Sermons of the Great Fathers will make it into a Verbum 11 package. Finally getting it into a base package is a start!

Sam Henderson

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1229365#Comment_1229365

I too have a fairly large library which I have been judiciously adding stuff to over time. Nothing the new base libraries offered had much to attract me. But Anglican Bronze had https://www.logos.com/product/223227/the-new-encyclopedia-of-archaeological-excavations-in-the-holy-land which I wanted, and had already committed to as a prepub. In this base package, with dynamic pricing it was going to cost me a lot less than the prepub price. I added Anglican Bronze to the cart, then threw in the full Logos 10 feature set, and found I would only be about $60 US out of pocket on the on the original prepub price for the Carta resource.