Two of Horton’s books in Logos Bible Software
Feb.17, 2012 by
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General
The world-wide headquarters of White Horse Inn has just been informed that two of Dr. Horton’s books will be included in Zondervan’s “Zondervan Bible Reference Bundle” for Logos Bible Software which includes 63 Biblical and Theological volumes! The two volumes of Dr. Horton’s to be included are The Christian Faith and For Calvinism and these will have the full Logos Software functionality.
- Some of the benefits of Logos include the following:
- All Scripture references are linked to English translations, like the NIV, and Greek and Hebrew texts.
- All cross-references are also linked, which means clicking the citation takes the user to the source.
- When a user copies and pastes a reference into a sermon handout or an academic paper, citations are automatically generated using the user’s preferred style guide.
- When commentaries are lined up side-by-side with the text of the Bible, everything scrolls together in-sync.
- Logos also provides advanced search functionality with the Passage Guide, which acts as a digital research assistant, finding and organizing content from commentaries and reference books on the text a user is studying.
To learn more about this bundle and its features check out the Logos description page.
February 17th, 2012 at 12:20 pm
Hmmm… spend a thousand dollars on a bunch of resources I already own or don’t want for a few I do want or just buy the titles individually on a non-logos ebook format. Such a hard decision.
Too bad publishers like Zondervan are still making bad deals with Logos.
February 17th, 2012 at 1:17 pm
John,
Both titles are also available in a subset of the large collection.
http://www.logos.com/product/17193/zondervan-theology-collection
February 17th, 2012 at 5:49 pm
Jesse,
Thanks. Although that deal is only relatively less bad as I see it. $124 for 7 books, three of which I already own and only one that I want but don’t own.
For some that may be a great deal (though only $7 cheaper than if you bought them all individually). But the large bundles where you can’t get individual titles usually aren’t a good deal. Maybe if Logos could get their ebooks out around the same time that Amazon or B&N or iBooks gets their ebooks out it would make the bundles look like a better deal to me, because I wouldn’t be looking at the list thinking “that’s a great title… Which is why I bought it months ago on Kindle.”
February 19th, 2012 at 5:07 am
I bought the hardcopy of the systematic theology already. I prefer reading on paper. I like underlining and the old analog technology has advantages over the reductionist screen. Reading on the computer is like reading through a funnel. With hardcopy I can flip around freely and see the notes I wrote in the margins. OTOH, the search features in Logos Bible are useful.
By the way, I reviewed the first section of Horton’s systematic theology. To say the least I was not pleased with his attack on Carl Henry and Gordon Clark and their doctrine of Scripture. You can read my review here: A Review of The Christian Faith, Part One
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March 6th, 2012 at 7:49 am
I bought the hardcopy of the systematic theology already. I prefer reading on paper. I like underlining and the old analog technology has advantages over the reductionist screen. Reading on the computer is like reading through a funnel.