Commentaries by theology
How do you search within your library for all the 'reformed' commentaries? Or any other flavour. All 'baptist' etc., commentaries.
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The commentaries section of the passage guide allows you to sort by denomination. You could run it on the entire bible, but I would pick a few books that you have lots of commentaries on and then sort by denomination and open reformed. This should give you the series that you have that FL has tagged as reformed. You could then tag those commentaries for future reference.
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perfect. I thought I saw that before but forgot where.
thanks.
The commentaries section of the passage guide allows you to sort by denomination. You could run it on the entire bible, but I would pick a few books that you have lots of commentaries on and then sort by denomination and open reformed. This should give you the series that you have that FL has tagged as reformed. You could then tag those commentaries for future reference.
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An alternative is to go to the store in Logos.com and click on Owned; type: commentaries and at the bottom Christian Group: Reformed.
The commentary section of the passage guide is by book and not series, which is best, so you may need to spend some time going through them.
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Yep, that works as well [Y]
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Just for fun I tried both methods and get different results! For example MacArthur does not show in the passage guide as Reformed (he's in Baptist!) but is reformed on the website.
Curious?!
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Just a note from a systematic theologian who uses a lot of commentaries: be aware that theological perspective or denominational affiliation often has much less effect or influence on how a commentary is written than one might expect.
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Just a note from a systematic theologian who uses a lot of commentaries: be aware that theological perspective or denominational affiliation often has much less effect or influence on how a commentary is written than one might expect.
Thank you, Sean. Good to know for me, a layman.
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Just for fun I tried both methods and get different results! For example MacArthur does not show in the passage guide as Reformed (he's in Baptist!) but is reformed on the website.
Curious?!
The lists are subjective and curated. Actually The Reformed Expository Commentary is listed as Presbyterian, which may be correct since I have not reviewed them from this perspective. Reviewing more than one list provides allows for further analysis. I agree with Sean's comments as well.
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perfect. I thought I saw that before but forgot where.
thanks.
The commentaries section of the passage guide allows you to sort by denomination. You could run it on the entire bible, but I would pick a few books that you have lots of commentaries on and then sort by denomination and open reformed. This should give you the series that you have that FL has tagged as reformed. You could then tag those commentaries for future reference.
Good Advice as always from John. Also keep this in mind; I have "Reformed Platinum" and a lot of reformed commentaries, but when I run a PG and look under "Reformed" it only shows 6 commentaries. It seems that most of the Reformed Commentaries are under Presbyterian. In fact, I just noticed that Logos no longer has the "non denominational" section and people like John MacArthur, who is reformed, is now under Baptist, who are actually one of the original "Reformed" minded denominations. So you will need to look in a few of those sections. And then there is "Congregational" section, which would include Calvins Commentaries. So, as John suggested, I would take a look at the Denomination section because it will help you, but you will still need to do some browsing.
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Hi Milkman:
If you are interested in putting a finer point on this, and have the time to do it, I can suggest:
- Andrew Baguley's fine work on theology & denomination collections / tags (most recent update): https://community.logos.com/forums/p/54491/932951.aspx#932951
- Mark Barnes' helpful commentary category collections: https://community.logos.com/forums/p/88829/1129877.aspx#1129877
For example, in the case of the aforementioned MacArthur, the tagging I made from Andrew's collection rules applied these categories to JFM's commentaries:
Baptist, Calvinist, Cessationist, Creationist, Dispensational, Pre-Millennial. Additionally Mark's collections puts them in the Expositional category. That is a good summary; the 'Dispensational tag is the only one that's a bit broad. The results aren't necessarily perfect, as sometimes 'publisher' and 'denomination' can have big tents. A side benefit of Andrew's rules is that they also pick up non-commentary resources.
If you're interested in how I implemented these, reply back; otherwise, I won't bore. Andrew's and Mark's rules are implemented differently. For performance reasons the collection is made, the library tagged from it, and the collection is deleted, Caveats:
- It takes quite a while to do.
- I don't think this extensive functionality has been implemented at large in Logos, but I sometimes miss things. It is likely that someone will let us know if so.
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