Smart Searches on "All"
A question posted in the Resources Forum titled "How to identify all Catholic authored resources so I can hide them" moves me to ask a related question I've been pondering: a "Mormon Studies Collection" is "Almost funded" on pre-orders. This collection includes "the primary documents of the Mormon Church."
I have no problem with this being on Logos, as scholars and others may need, or wish, to see what these documents say.
But it does raise a question (also raised by Logos resources such as The Watchtower (1879-1890) (138 issues) and The Qu'ran (English), both presently on Logos, and, I would imagine, other resources, including, for that matter, lots of Roman Catholic resources): How do smart searches on "all" distinguish between non-Christian resources and Christian resources (including in Christian resources nearly all Jewish resources), so that, once the Mormon Studies Collection is available, an answer doesn't pull from those resources, without making clear that part of the answer is heretical? I get that the resources used will be footnoted, but imagine somebody reading an answer quickly. I appreciate that there must be plenty of heretical early-church documents on Logos - Arianist, Docetist, Gnostic, etc. - that present the same issue. I have to imagine that parsing through all the resources on Logos for what's (lower-case) orthodox versus what's heretical in formulating each answer must be a truly challenging task.
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Excuse me. While Mormons may have some heretical beliefs, it is inappropriate to assume everything Mormon is heretical. They provide some of the best resources on rhetoric https://rhetoric.byu.edu/, have one of the best scholars on Biblical names, Matthew Bowen, etc. My connection to the Mormons — I've known a handful casually; I haven't even argued with one of their missionaries for fun. Logos searches have always used whatever resources are in your library - you control by denominational collections or look at all your resources.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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"All" Search is just what it sounds like: it searches ALL Logos books, regardless of whether you own them. (I'm not going to touch the question of which resources count as Christian.)
When you want control over which books are searched, you can set the search collection from your licensed books in Books Search.
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