Today I learned this about the Concordance tool!
First, you can use the Concordance tool on any book in your library. That never occurred to me.
Second, you can use the Concordance tool to view References, which is exciting. You can see just how frequently (or infrequently) an author cites Scripture, church fathers, etc.
Third (and this is really interesting), you can use the Concordance tool to view Works Cited, creating a live bibliography at your fingertips. I'll tell you why this means so much to me. As a preaching pastor and not a theologian, I don't have time to be knowledgeable about every author or resource. When I find an author to be accurate and true to the Scriptures, I have a tendency to trust the sources THEY trust. Using the Concordance to examine Works Cited tells me (generally speaking) who the author of a commentary or monograph trusts, which helps me as well.
That's all; have a blessed day!
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Thank you, Gregory for the great tips!
And like you, I just associated it with the Bible; not everything. I suppose because that's where Concordances are supposed to be!
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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I have a tendency to trust the sources THEY trust
I'm the same.
I'd never even opened the Concordance tool...now I'm going to give it a look.
Good thoughts.
Eating a steady diet of government cheese, and living in a van down by the river.
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I use it to find the word count of my monographs to get an idea of how many sessions I'll need to break it up in a reading plan.
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ditto. one of the best tools under the radar. like you, when I find something I like ill run the concordance tool to see what references they cite the most, and if possible I try to add it to my library when I can.
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