Protestant vs Catholic Church Father Books
If you want the Catholic edition instead of the Protestant edition of the early church fathers, how do you get them changed?
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Gregory S. MacBeth said:
If you want the Catholic edition instead of the Protestant edition of the early church fathers, how do you get them changed?
Did you buy the Protestant edition already by mistake and want to switch to the Catholic version? You can call Customer Service (800-875-6467) and get a refund for the Catholic edition and exchange it for the Protestant edition. I think that's the only way of doing it. The wait times for CS have been long (over 30 minutes sometimes) since the release of Logos 4 and the burst of new users, but they are beginning to come back down again. I think you can expect about 25 minutes. And I've heard that early morning is the best time to get through. They are open at 6 AM Pacific Time.
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Gregory S. MacBeth said:
If you want the Catholic edition instead of the Protestant edition of the early church fathers, how do you get them changed?
Good question. When I saw there were two different editions (Catholic & Protestant) I wondered what the difference in contents was. I read up on the two Libronix published editions and all I could determine is the Protestant Edition contains everything the Catholic Edition has and a little more. So if a person had the Protestant collection he would also have the Catholic collection. But I do understand what it feels like to have extra content you don't hold in the same regard. I have a Cambridge KJV with Apocrypha. [H]
I'm not sure we want the option to toggle back and forth including or excluding the "extras" on a whim. Some modernists might demand that option in doctrinal studies! [:O] But are you asking if maybe you can exchange the one set for the other??
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If there essentially the same with a little extra for the Protestant side, then I am fine. I just wanted to make sure they were not entirely different.
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Gregory S. MacBeth said:
If there essentially the same with a little extra for the Protestant side, then I am fine. I just wanted to make sure they were not entirely different.
Hi Gregory.
The primary difference between the Protestant and Catholic editions is that the Protestant edition has all of the footnotes, and I believe many of the footnotes in the Catholic version have been excised. When we originally released the ECF (back in 1997, I think ... phew, long time ago) we had feedback from Catholic users, booksellers and distributors that the Schaff edition had a large degree of anti-Catholic material in the footnotes and that, for this market, the better product would be to excise those.
So that's the difference. The Protestant edition has all the introductory matter and footnotes; the Catholic edition has a portion of the notes excised. The writings themselves are the same.
Rick Brannan
Data Wrangler, Faithlife
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EDIT: ^^^ What He said ^^^ [<:o)]The RickMeister saves the day! [:P]
Gregory S. MacBeth said:If there essentially the same with a little extra for the Protestant side, then I am fine. I just wanted to make sure they were not entirely different.
That is what third party reviews said was the only difference. I can't remember where I read those reviews.
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Gregory S. MacBeth said:
If you want the Catholic edition instead of the Protestant edition of the early church fathers, how do you get them changed?
As a Catholic, I'd actually recommend the Protestant edition as it can be useful for apologetics. It's notes provide input towards understanding the biases of the translators as well as how the Fathers are "reinterpreted" to reflect philosophical concepts not known in their time.
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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