Wondering if anyone has come up with a comprehensive set of rules to create an Apologetics Collection? Thanks for any input.
Apologetic, apologetics, religions, mormon*, watchtower, worldview, athiest, "jehovah* witness*", evolution -apocrypha
Above is the string that I have been using. It includes cults as well.
Apologetic, apologetics, religions, mormon*, watchtower, worldview, athiest, "jehovah* witness*", evolution -apocrypha Above is the string that I have been using. It includes cults as well.
thanks for sharing. For those who want to copy and paste your string into the collection rule box, I repeat it with "atheist" instead of "athiest":
Apologetic, apologetics, religions, mormon*, watchtower, worldview, atheist, "jehovah* witness*", evolution -apocrypha
Maybe it helps to include something like author:geisler into the string and manually exclude non-apologetic resources, to make sure that works like "Why I am a Christian" etc. are found.
Here is what I am currently using and this gets tweaked all the time.
subject:apologetics OR author:morey, author:geisler, author:schaeffer
And I have also added to Plus these Resources things I consider Apologetic like The Nature and Limits of Human Understanding.
Sometimes I tag several Apologetic resources and then just use mytag:whatever for the collection rule. This is probably my most used collection and the rules constantly are changing.
Thankful for discussion; changed Apologetics collection rule from Subject:Apologetics (16 resources) to:
Subject:(Apologeti,Ethics,Evangeli,Mormon,"Spiritual warfare",Witness) OR Title:(Faith,Manifesto,Wicket)
that has 77 resources. For some resources, looked for unique word in title (e.g. couple by Charles Spurgeon).
Equivalent rule is => subject:apologetics OR author:(morey,geisler,schaeffer)
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author:(morey,geisler,schaeffer)
Of course not all Geisler's works are apologetics. His General Introduction to the Bible being one of them. I think the easiest, maybe the fastest, and definitely most reliable way to do this to scan down through your library and tag the books you want to be in your apologetics collection. As new books come in tag them immediately. This way you never have to figure out what some collection rule means and then try to tweak it to do a better job. It should take less time to tag a book than to add it to the exceptions section of a dynamic collection rule, and certainly less time than modifying the rule. Keep a list of the words you have used as tags.
My Logos resource finally became truly useable when I learned tagging and setting up custom passage guides. When I have an exegetical question I can check out the options and their rational in many resources and come to a well informed conclusion in a very few minutes. To me Logos is first and foremost an exegetical research tool. The SIL exegetical summary series is a favorite of mine. I use it for other things too.
Thankful for discussion; changed Apologetics collection rule from Subject:Apologetics (16 resources) to: Subject:(Apologeti,Ethics,Evangeli,Mormon,"Spiritual warfare",Witness) OR Title:(Faith,Manifesto,Wicket)
One more Apologetics collection rule update, which includes Robert Morey's "The Trinity: Evidences and Issues" (via Trinity subject) along with Geisler's "Introduction to Philosophy: A Christian Perspective" (via "Christianity--Philosophy" subject):
Subject:(Apologeti,"Christianity--Philosophy",Cosmology,Ethics,Evangeli,Evidence,Miracle,Mormon,"Spiritual warfare",Trinity,Witness) OR Title:(Apologetics,Faith,Manifesto,Wicket)
