Resources to include in the next Methodist/Wesleyan Base Package
I thought I would start a thread with a list of resources we would like to see in the next Methodist & Wesleyan Base Package. I'll post my own wishes, but please add your own!
New Beacon Bible Commentary - This would, in my opinion, the best addition as it is the (only?) Methodist/Wesleyan commentary series not currently included the base package.
Joseph Agar Beet Commentary Collection
The Elements of Divinity - by Thomas Ralston. I think this might be the only Methodist/Wesleyan systematic theology currently not included in the base package. It should be easy to do, as it is only $9.99.
The following resources are more about Methodism/Wesleyanism:
Wesleyan Theological Perspectives
Baylor Wesleyan Studies Collection
The next two resources are still in pre-pub, so probably won't make it into the very next base package, but maybe they could be included in the Methodist & Wesleyan Library Builder a little further down the road.
John Wesley's Teaching - by Thomas Oden. I have these in hard copy, and it is a great resource.
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I wouldn‘t rule out the last two you mentioned just because they are on prepub. Prepub / Community pricing resources have been included in past base packages I believe. It’s an alternative way of getting them funded.
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I wouldn‘t rule out the last two you mentioned just because they are on prepub. Prepub / Community pricing resources have been included in past base packages I believe.
Now that you mention that, I think you are right. That would be great.
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Some other resources would be those of Ben Witherington III: here. Besides his commentaries on the NT, his NT theology, The Indelible Image, and a NT history (among many other excellent resources) would be a great addition to the next Methodist & Wesleyan base package.
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Reading with the Grain of Scripture - Richard B Hays. Would also like to see Moral Vision of the NT.
Doxology by Geoffrey Wainwright who recently passed away is also an essential Methodist/ecumenical text.
Bicentennial Works of John Wesley are also necessary to get any serious Methodist scholar to buy this package over the Anglican package. I bought Anglican Gold over Methodist, because the Wesley resources are so outdated. I have most of the updated works in print but would buy them again for the Logos advantage.
Besides that, I suggest Logos and Abingdon with its various imprints form a better relationship. Logos needs books from Abingdon and Kingswood to convince more Methodists to come to the software. Especially now that BibleWorks has folded, they could attract mainline seminary students to the platform over accordance. I know I was hesitant before I got Logos because I considered it to not really be for mainline Methodists. However, I am very happy with a lot of the books and courses I've got. I just picked up Douglas Campbell's Pauline Dogmatics, which is a serious academic book and I would have never thought a few years ago that I would be reading it on a program like Logos.
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Teach Us to Pray: The Lord’s Prayer in the Early Church and Today by Justo L. Gonzalez
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Above all, The Bicentennial Edition of Wesley's Works. It is the only critical and scholarly edition with notes by the greatest Wesley scholars of our time.
This should have been in Logos Bible Software years ago.
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Besides that, I suggest Logos and Abingdon with its various imprints form a better relationship. Logos needs books from Abingdon and Kingswood to convince more Methodists to come to the software. Especially now that BibleWorks has folded, they could attract mainline seminary students to the platform over accordance. I know I was hesitant before I got Logos because I considered it to not really be for mainline Methodists. However, I am very happy with a lot of the books and courses I've got. I just picked up Douglas Campbell's Pauline Dogmatics, which is a serious academic book and I would have never thought a few years ago that I would be reading it on a program like Logos.
Amen! on the Bicentennial Edition of Wesley's Works!!!
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Yes, the NBBC is an absolute must! They could at least include a partial collection of it such as all the NT books. I was so disappointed when they came out with Logos 10 and a Portfolio edition and still neglected to include anything fromn this collection at all. I now lack interest in upgrading to the Diamond or Portfolio editions largely for this reason. There being no NBBC is such a glaring ommission, especially at the high end larger package editons. Such a shame. It's simply too expensive. Even Zondervan loosened up a bit with certain of their resources, sometimes offering big 60% off deals, etc. Nothing close to this has ever happened regarding the NBBC. It's very off-putting. I hope Faithlife / Logos will genuinely try to do something to help remedy this. A little communication could go a long way.
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Bicentennial Works of John Wesley are also necessary to get any serious Methodist scholar to buy this package over the Anglican package. I bought Anglican Gold over Methodist, because the Wesley resources are so outdated. I have most of the updated works in print but would buy them again for the Logos advantage.
Could not agree more with you on that!
By the way, it is a pain, but I have been able to get the old Bicentennial Wesley's Works CD to work on my Dell XPS Windows 11 laptop, but it is a pain. It involves copying the CD to the computer as an iso file.
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