Quickly Discover an Author’s View of a Passage

Today’s post is from Morris Proctor, certified and authorized trainer for Logos Bible Software. Morris, who has trained thousands of Logos users at his two-day Camp Logos seminars, provides many training materials.

If you’re like me, when you study a topic or passage you want to know what a specific author thinks about it. What are A.W. Tozer’s insights on worship? What does John Wesley or Charles Spurgeon say about John 3:16? It’s easy to zero in on a specific author’s views in Logos—simply create and search an author collection. You can create one with these simple steps:

• Choose Tools | Collections
• Name the collection the same name as your author, such as Charles Ryrie Books (A)
• In the Rule box, type author:“First name Last name”. In this example, I typed author:“Charles Ryrie” (B)
• Click New(C) to create an author collection:

Here’s a more detailed explanation of what you need to type in the rule box:

• The word author,
• followed by a colon with no spaces on either side of the colon,
• and ending with the author’s first and last names included within double quotation marks.

To search your new author collection for a particular passage:

• Click the Search icon
• Select Basic as the search type (D)
• Click the resources to search drop down list (E)
• Select your desired author’s collection of resources (F)

• Execute your word, phrase, reference, etc. search as normal (G)
• Notice the search results are all from the specific author’s resources (H)

Now you can see everything a particular author said about the passage you’re studying.

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