SUGGESTION: meets requirements of several requests re: Arcing, Sentence Diagram, Highlighting

MJ. SmithUser: "MJ. Smith"
MJ. Smith
Updated by Jason Stone (Logos)

If you have kept up to date on the Bible arcing website, you will know it has moved beyond arcing to bracketing and phrasing. This doesn't surprise me in that arcing emphasizes particular relationships that differ from bracketing or phrasing as BibleArc defines them. (BibleArc info given below double line).

However, the growth in their product emphasizes the degree to which Logos provides us with someone else's analysis to use rather than providing the tools to do our own analysis.

I would like to see Logos provide support for these with several small tweeks:

  1. In the preset highlights, add a simple new line after (we have before & after)
  2. In the preset highlights, a some indent features (1, 2, 3, 4 ... indents)
  3. In the Sentence diagrammer, add a label function that allows one to label a line from a predefined set of labels ... these are needed for a few of the tree structure diagrams, for the arced dependency diagram, for Bible Arcing, Bracketing ... and ideally some that are user created.

This would add a huge jump in functionality with comparatively little programming changes.

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Examples of the actual tools:

Arcing and Bracketing are both study methods that serve to graphically display the flow of thought in a biblical text. Thus, in one way they are the same thing with just a difference graphical representation. Yet, each method possesses its own strength. Arcing’s strength is to most clearly display how groups of propositions relate to one another. Bracketing’s strength is to most clearly display the main point of the passage.

Consider the arc and bracket of Romans 3:21-26 below.

Arc of Romans 3:21-26

Notice now easy it is to see from the arc that 25a-25b relates to 25c-26b as an Action-Purpose relationship. God put Jesus forward as propitiation (action) in order to show God’s righteousness and that he might both just and the justifier (2 purposes).

Bracket of Romans 3:21-26

Here, the bracket makes it crystal clear what the main point is, as seen by the longest line. “The righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law.” This is the main point that this entire passage supports and explains.

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Phrasing goes by many names:

  • block diagramming
  • causal layout
  • grammatical diagramming
  • phrase diagramming
  • propositional displays
  • propositional outlines
  • sentence flow
  • text hierarchy
  • thought-flow diagramming

Phrasing is a flexible and easy-to-use Bible study tool that allows you to visually trace a passage’s argument: simply indent to subordinate. The Biblearc phrasing feature has all sorts of mark-up features from arrows to relationship comments to Dot Notes.

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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