Theology Guide

The Theology Guide in Logos 8 provides a platform for theological study. Input a topic, navigate from one systematic theology to another, compare views, survey related references, and investigate corresponding theological topics.

We've prepared resources to introduce the Theology Guide here:

Theology Guide

Feel free to use this Forum thread as a place to post questions and feedback.

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Orville J Erickson

I am beyond excited for this new feature! Would upgrade for this alone.

Sean

What do you have to buy to get this Guide?

Graham Criddle

What do you have to buy to get this Guide?

It's included with the Full Feature Upgrade or a Faithlife Connect subscription - details at https://www.logos.com/compare/feature-sets

A Silver Base package or above would include it.

Mike Tourangeau

This guide seems to consistently display results from "Strongs" systematic theology. Will other systematic theologies be added eventually (Grudem?)

James Paet

Logos exits every time I click the picture in theology guide. Do you have same experience? Thanks.

Graham Criddle

This guide seems to consistently display results from "Strongs" systematic theology. Will other systematic theologies be added eventually (Grudem?)

At the moment five systematic theology resources have been linked in:

Berkhof, Systematic Theology
Packer, Concise Theology
Ryrie, Basic Theology
Hodge, Systematic Theology
Strong, Systematic Theology

More are intended to be added over time.

Kevin A Lewis

So as with almost everyone we are lacking "Israelology" in the big scheme of systematics.

Shalom

Donovan R. Palmer

Kyle B

I notice in the video two other guides - Biblical Place and Historical Theology. Are these future guides that are coming out, or user defined?

Graham Criddle

Biblical Place

Biblical Place is a workflow

John Fidel

Kyle B

I notice in the video two other guides - Biblical Place and Historical Theology. Are these future guides that are coming out, or user defined?

Hi Donovan,

From the icon in the video it looks like the Historical Theology is a custom Topic Guide. At the bottom of the guide menu is get more shared which allows you to download shared guides. I looked and did not see this guide, but found a Theology Guide (passage) by Phil Gons that is interesting.

Sean Boisen

Kyle B

I notice in the video two other guides - Biblical Place and Historical Theology. Are these future guides that are coming out, or user defined?

You're probably thinking of sections that have been available in Guides before, but can now be accessed independently.

The first of these is new: it's a workflow (note the shape has a small point to the right) for studying biblical places. The second is the Biblical Places section of the Passage Guide: entering a Bible reference will provide information about places that are mentioned in that passage.

The third is the corresponding section from the Topic Guide, which will have similar information, but for a topic (like Galilee) rather than a Bible passage.

Blair Laird

I tried typing renewal and it does not seem to work. How should I search in the theology guide?

Bruce Dunning

I tried typing renewal and it does not seem to work. How should I search in the theology guide?

"Renewal" is not a term currently found in the guide. Try something else like "sanctification".

Blair Laird

The renewal of all things belongs in the eschatology category. The renewal of person can refer to regeneration or sanctification even glorification. That's why I am trying to understand how I can best search with it to get what I am looking for

Sean Boisen

The renewal of all things belongs in the eschatology category. The renewal of person can refer to regeneration or sanctification even glorification. That's why I am trying to understand how I can best search with it to get what I am looking for

If you can't find a matching label for a topic, you can try searching the resource:

If you can identify a more general category, the Contents page shows all the child categories (which are more specific).

We've captured as many alternate terms as we could think of to express these concepts, but I'm sure there are others, so please make suggestions as you look for something and don't find it. Of course, the concept you're thinking of might not line up with our categorization (either because it crosses concepts that we treat separately, or because it's more detailed than what we've captured).

William O'Flaherty

I just watched the video about the Theology Guide and my version is 8.0.0583.
Under GUIDES, I get to it slightly differently, which is okay. What's not okay is that I get NO result for ANY topic!
I only have HODGE's ST, and it doesn't give results for it. As you can also see, I don't get ANY related passages.
Am I missing something?

Sean Boisen

William, i'm not sure you're actually looking at the Theology Guide. Here's how to get to it:

Entering Original Sin should show you this:

Sean

Entering Original Sin should show you this:

Sorry to go there again, but I was curious as I am right now studying this topic in Berkouwer's Studies in Dogmatics. Again, this series of entries shows the LST and the Guide need a lot of work.

To begin with, I don't see any reference to the fact that there is a major difference of viewpoint between the Eastern church and the Western/Augustinian tradition; how Romans 5:12 was translated in the Vulgate had a huge impact on how this doctrine developed in the West.* Similarly, the question of inherited/imputed guilt is also a major area of controversy. A guide to systematic theology should at least hint at these issues and direct the reader to resources that discuss them.

Next, the recommended reading lists are very thin and too selective. Most are directed towards sections in Reformed STs and the Summa. A wider range of viewpoints would be helpful. Under the related article, "The Effects of the Fall...", Berkouwer's volume on Man is suggested; his excellent work on Sin (with several chapters on the subject) should be there in the "Original Sin" article. I do hope these reading lists will be enhanced and enlarged as time goes by.

OTOH, I'm happy to see more entries popping up in the Systematic Theologies section--I now see Bavinck and Vos (were they there earlier too?) But the primary aim of this tool--what I think most of your customer base would be looking for--should be to help you explore the depth and breadth of theology in your Logos library. You're going to have to consciously and deliberately reach out beyond the Reformed/Baptist theological paradigm in order to do that.

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*ETA, just a quick expansion for the curious from two translations that make the difference very clear:

Romans 5:12 (Douay-Rheims)

¹²Wherefore as by one man sin entered into this world and by sin death: and so death passed upon all men, in whom all have sinned.

Romans 5:12 (EOB: NT)

¹²Therefore, [even] as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin, death passed to everyone, because {of which} all sinned.

David Paul

Since we're on the topic of "original sin" (a doctrine applied to a text that never once uses the word "sin"), it might also be worth FL's time to address those perspectives that don't assume that original sin is even a topic for consideration in Gen. 3. James Barr's The Garden of Eden and the Hope of Immortality posits such a view. Barr's much better at seeing what's wrong than what's right, but his insight is worth considering.

Yeah, it's not in Logos...it's one of the hundred-plus books I've had to buy in tangible form over the last year. Like so much else, it should be on the Logos "Get" list.

Andrew Batishko

I just watched the video about the Theology Guide and my version is 8.0.0583.
Under GUIDES, I get to it slightly differently, which is okay. What's not okay is that I get NO result for ANY topic!
I only have HODGE's ST, and it doesn't give results for it. As you can also see, I don't get ANY related passages.
Am I missing something?

It looks like you don't have the required licenses for the feature.

From looking at the feature set comparison chart, it looks like you'll need the Full Feature Upgrade in order to have access to the Theology Guide and associated datasets: https://www.logos.com/compare/feature-sets

Sean Boisen

Entering Original Sin should show you this:

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Next, the recommended reading lists are very thin and too selective. Most are directed towards sections in Reformed STs and the Summa. A wider range of viewpoints would be helpful. Under the related article, "The Effects of the Fall...", Berkouwer's volume on Man is suggested; his excellent work on Sin (with several chapters on the subject) should be there in the "Original Sin" article. I do hope these reading lists will be enhanced and enlarged as time goes by.

OTOH, I'm happy to see more entries popping up in the Systematic Theologies section--I now see Bavinck and Vos (were they there earlier too?) But the primary aim of this tool--what I think most of your customer base would be looking for--should be to help you explore the depth and breadth of theology in your Logos library. You're going to have to consciously and deliberately reach out beyond the Reformed/Baptist theological paradigm in order to do that.

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There aren't yet any new entries, but the Recommended Reading lists vary between articles, depending on the contributor who wrote them.

We plan eventually to index virtually all systematic theologies in Logos by the categories in the Survey, so over time the Systematic Theologies section will grow into a much larger list that will cover a much wider set of perspectives.

Hamilton Ramos

Hi Sean:

I noticed that you mention in a review that pentecostalism is one of your areas of expertise. Do you mind mentioning the recommended resources to understand their theology, and resources that try to show why some presuppositions they have may not fully jibe with the Bible?

Also could you share with us the workflow you use to compare different perspectives on particular doctrinal topics?

Lastly: in your view, what is the best resource that most completely lists all the key components of what a systematic theology should contain.

I am pretty sure systematic theologians wanna bes like me would greatly appreciate your input.

Kind regards.

Gregory Lawhorn

Just my two leptas worth:

First, if Logos doesn't make these graphics "clickable," they are missing (in fact, ignoring) a huge opportunity to help us as we study.

Second, maybe I'm just missing it, but since there are obviously a large number of these images in Logos, is there a place where they are contained in a SINGLE image? A recent email described the Theology Guide as a "mind map," but showing an unclickable piece of a static image doesn't begin to meet the basic qualifications for a mind map. The graphics obviously exist; joining them into a single document – even a downloadable PDF – wouldn't be an impossible task, and would provide a huge benefit in showing how the various areas of theology intersect.

Mark Barnes

Second, maybe I'm just missing it, but since there are obviously a large number of these images in Logos, is there a place where they are contained in a SINGLE image?

Right at the front of the Lexham Survey of Theology resource in your library. Or go direct to the image in the Media Tool.

Gregory Lawhorn

Second, maybe I'm just missing it, but since there are obviously a large number of these images in Logos, is there a place where they are contained in a SINGLE image?

Right at the front of the Lexham Survey of Theology resource in your library. Or go direct to the image in the Media Tool.

Thanks, Mark - that's really helpful. Now to make it a navigation tool . . .

Sean Boisen

Second, maybe I'm just missing it, but since there are obviously a large number of these images in Logos, is there a place where they are contained in a SINGLE image?

Right at the front of the Lexham Survey of Theology resource in your library. Or go direct to the image in the Media Tool.

Thanks, Mark - that's really helpful. Now to make it a navigation tool . . .

Providing a more visual way to interact with and navigate from the Lexham Systematic Theology Ontology structure is under active consideration.

Hamilton Ramos

Hi Mark:

Do you know if is possible to place such diagrams in canvas and then assign links to certain areas that connect to specific locations within a resource?

MJ. Smith

Hi Mark:

Do you know if is possible to place such diagrams in canvas and then assign links to certain areas that connect to specific locations within a resource?

Not Mark - but the Systematic Theology diagram is from Canvas.