Apologetics Collection

Apologetic, apologetics, religions, mormon*, watchtower, worldview, athiest, "jehovah* witness*", evolution -apocrypha

Above is the string that I have been using. It includes cults as well.

Here is what I am currently using and this gets tweaked all the time.

subject:apologetics OR author:morey, author:geisler, author:schaeffer

And I have also added to Plus these Resources things I consider Apologetic like The Nature and Limits of Human Understanding.

Sometimes I tag several Apologetic resources and then just use mytag:whatever for the collection rule. This is probably my most used collection and the rules constantly are changing.

" rel="nofollow">Keep Smiling 4 Jesus said:

author:(morey,geisler,schaeffer)

Of course not all Geisler's works are apologetics. His General Introduction to the Bible being one of them. I think the easiest, maybe the fastest, and definitely most reliable way to do this to scan down through your library and tag the books you want to be in your apologetics collection. As new books come in tag them immediately. This way you never have to figure out what some collection rule means and then try to tweak it to do a better job. It should take less time to tag a book than to add it to the exceptions section of a dynamic collection rule, and certainly less time than modifying the rule. Keep a list of the words you have used as tags.

My Logos resource finally became truly useable when I learned tagging and setting up custom passage guides. When I have an exegetical question I can check out the options and their rational in many resources and come to a well informed conclusion in a very few minutes. To me Logos is first and foremost an exegetical research tool. The SIL exegetical summary series is a favorite of mine. I use it for other things too.

" rel="nofollow">Keep Smiling 4 Jesus said:

Rule exclusion can be => author:(morey,geisler,schaeffer) ANDNOT title:Introduction

Now you just excluded Geisler's Introduction to Philosophy which you probably do want in your apologetics collection since it an apologetic approach to the subject.

" rel="nofollow">Keep Smiling 4 Jesus said:

Initially tagging library can be time consuming (especially when dynamic rules using Logos metadata can quickly group many resources)

I used similar things when doing my tagging to speed up the process. Once I had selectively tagged the books produced by library sorts, and these sorts of collections, I deleted the collection rule to prevent accidentally using one of them and running into anomalies such as illustrated above.

From my days in library science: there is a skill called "knowing the collection." A large part of a library employee's evaluation was on how well they "knew the collection."  One "learned the collection" by straightening the books on the shelves and and flipping through some of them each time. After a few years of this the employee could work the reference desk helping patrons find information they were not able to fine using the card catalog that was filled by "subject". Even with all the tools Logos provides you still have to "know the collection." Tagging helps one preserve one's "knowledge of the collection."

There is an old line that goes "you can't judge a books by it cover." All collection rules can do is look at the cover. (This line also applied to fancy dust jackets.)

There is no excuse for not opening every resource (a set of books maybe one resource) in one's Logos library, taking a look at it, and assigning it one or more tags from a carefully "controlled vocabulary." Until one has done at least one pass of this, one certainly does not "know one's collection." And therefore is certainly not making very good use of it. -- Sorry for the rant. [:)] but having a large library is often a facade for having knowledge. We will not even mention understanding and wisdom.

T.P. Johnston said:

I tried: tags:apologetics and variations of that, but no results at all.

mytag:apologetics

steve clark said:

T.P. Johnston said:

I tried: tags:apologetics and variations of that, but no results at all.

mytag:apologetics

                    Could you, please, or someone else if willing, please give me an example of how to use mytag:apologetics with some of other rules on this thread)  For some reason I am finding it a tad difficult.                                                                     John 15:5                 

" rel="nofollow">Keep Smiling 4 Jesus said:

Personally have a Bible Grid Favorites collection with mytag:BibleGrid rule so can compare few more Bibles than "Top 5 Bibles".  Greek Text Comparison collection includes mytag:BibleGrid as part of rule:

Peace to you, Keep Smiling!       *smile*                        I KNOW you have the Joy, eh??    Praise God!

               I appreciate your response; and I must say many of your posts have been highly stimulating and helped me to "think outside of the box," which is what we should be doing a lot more of!                                                                                             Galatians 5:13

Outside the box!           *smile*

Outside the box: