Theology/Denomination Tags

Denomination: Seventh-day Adventist

Author:("Anderson, Bruce", "Lewis, Karen Ann", "Bacchiocchi, Samuel", "Land, Gary", "Knott, Ronald Allan", "Paulien, Jon", "Sahlin, Monte", "General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists",  "Holbrook, Frank B.", "Colon, Jac", "Advent Source", "Day, Dan", "Weber, Martin", "Tucker, Mike", "Walter, Elden", "Colon, Jac", "Batchelor, Doug", "Chea, Alvin", "Chalice, Leander",  "Papaioannou, Kim", "swenson, Terry", "Turner, Lawrence A.",   "Mitchell, Larry A.", "Himes, Joshua V.", "Frazee, W.D.",  "Tucker, Gayle", "Andrews University", "Brand, Leonard", "Davidson, Richard M.", "Dederen, Raoul", "Doukhan, Jacques B.", "Fayard, Carlos", "Gane, Roy", "Gugliotto, Lee J.", "Gulley, Norman R.", "Harding IV, George T.", "Hasel, Gerhard", "Hernandez, Barbara Couden", "Horn, Siegfried H.", "Knight, George R.", "LaRondelle, Hans K.", "Miller, Nicholas M.", "Neufeld, Don F.", "Nichol, Francis D.", "Rasell, Marc", "Rice, Richard", "Richards, W. Larry", "Smith, Uriah", "Stefanovic, Ranko", "Swanson, H. Peter", "White, Ellen G.") OR Publisher:("Adventsource", "Simple Church Global Network", "Andrews University Press", "Ellen G. White Estate", "Review and Herald", "Seventh-day Adventist") OR Subject:(“ellen white writings”) OR MyTag:(“sdaencyc”, “sdaatlas”)

Updated May 29, 2014

I've tried to include all of the SDA authors included on this and subsequent posts.  It meant adding a lot of new authors.  I'd prefer not to add Subject to these collections, though we could add "OR MyTag:("Seventh-Day Adventist") if others think this would be helpful (see previous post).  If you were able to post the relevant authors and/or publishers here that are included only by adding "OR Subject:(“ellen white writings”) OR MyTag:(“sdaencyc”, “sdaatlas”)", then that would be helpful.  I know Logos is not always consistent with the way it publishes this information.

The alternative would be for you to create a Collection called "Lynden's SDA" with Subject:(“ellen white writings”) OR MyTag:(“sdaencyc”, “sdaatlas”), and add the collection "Denom. Stream: Seventh-day Adventist".  This would then automatically update and "Lynden's SDA" would include everything you wanted.  Please let me know what you're thinking.  Thanks for all the work you've put into this.

Author:("Adams, W. Milton", “Anderson, Bruce”, “Andrews University”, “Bacchiocchi, Samuele”, “Batchelor, Doug”, “Brand, Leonard”, “Brown, Robert H.”, “Case, Steve”, “Chalice, Leander”, “Chea, Alvin”, “Coffin, Harold”, “Colon, Jac”, “Davidson, Richard M.”, “Day, Dan”, “Dederen, Raoul”, “Dickerson, Brenda”, “Doukhan, Jacques B.”, “du Preez, Ron”, “Dudley, Roger L.”, “Edson, Hiram”, "Evans, Mary J.", “Fayard, Carlos”, "Flowers, Ron", “Ford, Mark”, “Frazee, W.D.”, “Gane, Roy E.”, “General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists”, “Gugliotto, Lee J.”, “Gulley, Norman R.”, “Harding IV, George T.”, “Hasel, Gerhard”, “Hernandez, Barbara Couden”, “Himes, Joshua V.”, “Horn, Siegfried H.”, “Holbrook, Frank B.”, “Knight, George R.”, “Knott, Ronald Allan”, “Land, Gary”, “LaRondelle, Hans K.”, “Lewis, Karen Ann”, “Miller, Nicholas M.”, “Mitchel, Larry A.”, “Neufeld, Don F.”, “Nichol, Francis D.”, “Papaioannou, Kim”, "Paulien, Jon", "Penner, Todd C.", “Rasell, Marc”, “Rice, Richard”, “Richards, W. Larry”, “Roth, Ariel A.”, “Sahlin, Monte”, “Shea, William H.”, “Smith, Uriah”, “Stefanovic, Ranko”, “Swanson, H. Peter”, “Swenson, Terry”, “Tucker, Gayle”, “Tucker, Mike”, “Turner, Lawrence A.”, “Walter, Elden”, “Weber, Martin”, “White, Ellen G.”, “Geoscience Research Institute”) OR Publisher:(“Andrews University Press”, “AdventSource”, “Adventist Today”, “Biblical Perspectives”, “Center for Creative Ministry”, “Ellen G. White Estate”, “First Impressions”,  “Jon Paulien”, “Pacific Press”, “Review and Herald”, “Simple Church Global Network”, “Seventh-day Adventist”) OR Subject:(“ellen white writings”) OR MyTag:(“sdaencyc”, “sdaatlas”, “sda”) OR adventist OR Seventh-day

This is really helpful, Edwin.  I think I've included all the authors and publishers you suggested.  See the previous posts for comments on the Subject and MyTag parts.  If you were able to list the relevant authors and publishers for the resources that are excluded by not adding these lines, then I would be most grateful.

This project has been noticed by BAR: http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/archaeology-today/cultural-heritage/digital-humanities/?mqsc=E3773539&utm_source=WhatCountsEmail&utm_medium=BHD+Week%20in%20Review%20Newsletter&utm_campaign=E4B531  (halfway down).

Great spot, fgh.  I'd have missed this otherwise.  Many thanks for posting.

I was starting to see what new purchases had done to my unclassified list. Somehow my collections are not updating automatically - an issue I'll look into later. But I noticed that Catholics still look odd to me> I'm missing something in how you are looking at things. What I expected:

Denom. Stream: Catholic

Denominations: Latin, Syro-Malabar, Melkite, Maronite etc.

Subgroup: OFM, OP, SJ ...

This would match what I thought was the Anglican structure:

Denom. Stream: Anglican

Denominations: Church of England, Church of Ireland . . .

Subgroup: OFM (the most common Anglican order)

or the similar Lutheran structure:

Denom. Stream: Lutheran

Denominations: ELCA, WELS, LCMS ...

Subgroup: Franciscans, Holy Trinity, Order of Mary (sample Lutheran orders)

What am I missing?

Sorry it's taken so long to get back here, MJ.  Please let me know if there's an issue with updating.

You're right about the most logical way to display these streams and subgroups.  The current list is trying to force everything into just two categories, for the sake of the spreadsheet.  I started breaking Latin Catholics into subgroups as it was such a large group and I hadn't bargained on the subgroups affecting so many pre-Reformation authors.  It could be quite a bit of work to change now, especially if the Logos Rules worksheet was to cater for subgroups, which would require more work for Randy.  What do others think?  Would it be worth it?

Another interesting puzzle. (Yes, I'm going through in great details seeing if I'd be willing to help with the updates.)

Under "Anglican" is the Church of South India. From Wikipedia:

"The Church of South India (CSI) is the successor of the Church of England in India after Indian Independence. It came into being by a union of Anglican and Protestant churches in South India. It combined the South India United Church (union of the Congregationalists and the Presbyterians); the then 14 Anglican Dioceses of South India and one in Sri Lanka; and the South Indian District of the Methodist church With a membership of over four million, it is India's second largest Christian church after the Catholic Church in India. CSI is one of four united churches in the Anglican Communion."

Do United Churches need their own category as they represent a theological mix rather than belonging to any single thread?

Thanks for the attention to detail, MJ.  I'm running out of time and will answer your other questions later.

My understanding (having spoken to a leader within the CSI) is that it is now Anglican, so that's how it has been labelled.  The label Uniting has been in use on the Colleges and Universities worksheet for some time.  It applies to churches that have united but have not joined the Anglican Communion.

Welcome back Andrew!

Thanks, Don!

The structure of the Congregational entries confuses me.

In the case of the Evangelical Free Church of America, if I recall correctly the EFCA merged with the Congregational Church. In the case of the United Church of Christ, the Congregational Church merged into the UCC. The two entries have opposite relationships. However, there is a larger question - what relationship is being shown by the denominational stream - history of theology or church ecumenical history?

There's no doubt it gets messy at times with merges and splits.  The relationship generally represents ecumenical history, but if a church has moved away from its roots, then it may be better represented in a different way.  I accept its a little subjective in places, which is one reason I invite feedback, In the case of the UCC, it seems that Congregational best defines them.  Although Evangelical churches merged into the UCC, it may be best described as Mainline now.  Its denominational stream could be Reformed, but Congregational seems a better fit.

Regarding the EFCA, I'm not sure it merged with the Congregational Church.  This doesn't seem to be represented on its website (http://www.efca.org/explore/who-we-are).  They seem to be happy with the Evangelical label, and that seems to best represent them as a church.  When I first started this, polity seemed to be more important, so I would have labelled EFCA Congregational.  Now Evangelical seems a better fit.  I'd especially welcome feedback from someone within the EFCA.

You may want to add "Do the collections automatically update" to your faq

Welcome back brother.

Thanks for the suggestion.  If I'm honest, I've never been overly sure about the updates.  When I look at https://faithlife.com/logos-library-theology-denomination-tags/documents after making changes in Logos, it says that the document was changed x minutes ago, but when I look under Manage Your Documents, it says that my groups do not have the latest update, so I then click publish update on each one (which is tedious for this many collections).  I assume that they then update automatically for everyone, but I didn't want to document it without checking.  Does it definitely update automatically?  Do I really have to click on each one, then click publish update?  When I know the answers, I'll add it to the reference guide.

A belated thanks for the "Welcome Back".  [:)]

What a labor of love! Thanks so much Andrew.

From my perspective as long as you update your copy of the document the changes are automatically applied to each collection.

Thanks for the encouragement, Bruce, and for the feedback regarding making changes.  

Also - adding "Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary","Golden Gate Baptist","Midwestern Baptist" to both the baptist, and southern baptist collections picked up an additional twenty titles. I happened to notice only three of the six southern baptist seminaries were listed and thought it may be good to include them all.

Thanks for the feedback.  Out of interest, which resources are brought up by Author:("Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary","Golden Gate Baptist","Midwestern Baptist")?  The Logos website doesn't seem to suggest any resources where these are the authors.