Methodist & Wesleyan Library Builder (160 vols.)

Robert Harner said:

Methodist & Wesleyan Library Builder (160 vols.)

https://www.logos.com/product/55277/methodist-and-wesleyan-library-builder 

This is great.

This is great news!

Brandon Rappuhn said:

First of all, as Robert has pointed out, we have a Methodist & Wesleyan Library Builder, (!!!) which is already an extremely great value on the resources it contains, but for the rest of the month, we're giving every customer an additional 15% off! (This pairs really well with our base package sale happening right now--you can also pick up the L6 Extended Crossgrade for 15% off this month and have yourself a Methodist-themed base package library).

That's great news, and it looks like an outstanding collection, featuring a healthy mix of old and new scholarship.

I'm just curious: Why is this being offered as a "Library Builder" instead of as a base package with various levels?

Very helpful as always, MJ. Thank you!

Thank you. This is  a great sale.[:)]

mike said:

Brandon, is there Academic Discount on this? Because I don't see it..

Unfortunately not. The discounts are so high on this collection that we literally can't go any further without running into problems with other products. To give you a point of reference, if you were to purchase all of the individual book collections contained within the Methodist & Wesleyan Library Builder, it would cost you around ~$2,270, and that's assuming you'd be buying the collections contained within (like the whole works of John Fletcher) rather than each volume individually (which would be far more expensive). Getting that for around $380 (with the introductory 15% off), before applying Dynamic Pricing discounts, is the best we can do.

mike said:

Brandon, is there Academic Discount on this? Because I don't see it..

Actually I'm eating my words here. There is an Academic price. I am not sure why you're not seeing it--can you take a screenshot and show me what you're seeing?

Into Grace said:

Will I pay less if I wait for a Wesleyan base package? This library has a lot of public domaim works that don't interest me. Thanks.

Base packages are more expensive in a direct comparison. Looking at our existing denominational and standard base packages, the only base package that's cheaper is Starter, which is $294.95 for 241 resources (which includes datasets, interactives, interlinears, Greek/Hebrew books, all the juice and power of Logos 6 that won't be as specifically Wesleyan as this library builder). The next level up is Bronze at $629.95 for over 500 resources, more of which are unique to each respective denomination. So to answer your question, you'll pay more in a strict comparison ($390 vs. $629--each less your dynamic price), but you'll also get more books and, consequently, pay less per book/resource if you wait for the base package. However, I cannot speak to how long you'll be waiting to see a base package in this denominational line, so the other economic costs to factor in are the opportunity cost of not having these resources in your library between now and if ever/whenever base packages launch.

So, taking the Library Builder at face-value, I'd be interested to hear feedback on the product. Which PD works from here are expendable and what modern works (that we already have on Logos.com) should be in their stead? The more feedback we can get, the better we can serve you ("the customer is always right" kind of thing, you know?).

I am delighted with my purchase of the "Methodist & Wesleyan Library Builder." I, for one, was pleased to finally get what I hope are the complete works of John Wesley (I missed getting these in Community Pricing, not knowing then how CP worked). Some say they are not so interested in getting public domain works. I think there is obviously much value in the "oldies but goodies." Scripture tells us not to remove the old landmarks!

I believe it would be most important to include in a Methodist & Wesleyan base package the primary theologies written in the nineteenth century (some of which I am beginning to get in my Logos library already). I have learned of these from Roger E. Olson's work, Arminian Theology:  Myths and Realities, pages 25, 26.  He mentions Richard Watson, Christian Institutes;  Thomas Summers, Systematic Theology:  A Complete Body of Wesleyan Arminian Divinity;  Pope, A Compendium of Christian Theology;  and John Miley, Systematic Theology.

I am especially interested in Thomas O. Summers, because I own a hard copy of his work on the subject of baptism which I found excellent. And speaking of baptism, one of the first issues I faced as a new Christian was the mode of Christian baptism. My Methodist pastor allowed for either sprinkling or immersion, without arguing for either mode. At the Baptist church I attended with my parents, they insisted upon immersion. I ended up being baptized by both modes.

I am thankful that Logos has in Community Pricing a collection ("Classic Works on Baptism," I think it is called) of about 40 or so volumes on the subject of baptism.  I would love to see that be a part of a Methodist & Wesleyan package.

MOST IMPORTANT to include in a Methodist & Wesleyan base package would be McClintock and Strong's Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature. I have the full reprinted edition from Baker Book House reprinted in 1968. I need a "Scripture Index" to the whole thing, which having it in Logos would provide!

Ralph Earle of the Nazarene Theological Seminary said in a "blurb" on the dust jacket, "McClintock and Strong's Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature is unsurpassed in its treatment of hundreds of important topics. Its biographical sketches are longer and more numerous than in any similar work. James Strong was one of the greatest Biblical scholars which Wesleyanism has produced. His editorship guarantees the high quality and evangelical orthodoxy of theological articles. This is a set which is needed to complete the library of a careful student of the Bible, theology, and church history."

I could go on to mention other works, whether older or modern, but these are some of the most critical items to place in a Methodist & Wesleyan Base Package that would be useful to me.

My dynamic price was $15 bucks! Not bad!