Catholic Foundations Library
by 173 authors Ernest De Witt Burton, Edgar Johnson Goodspeed, David A. Jones, Jeffrey Glen Jackson, Archibald T. Robertson, Henry Burton Sharman, Rick Brannan, William Day Crockett, Kurt Aland, Catholic Biblical Association (Great Britian), United States Catholic Conference. Administrative Board., Catholic Church. National Conference of Catholic Bishops. Administrative Committee., Confraternity of Christian Doctrine. Board of Trustees., German Bible Society, Paul Achtemeier, Society of Biblical Literature, Thomas à Kempis, James A. Swanson, Orville Nave, Harold L. Willmington, John Henry Newman, Peter Kreeft, Ronald K. Tacelli, Robert L. Thomas, Frederick C. Mish, Merriam-Webster, Inc., J. D. Douglas, Philip W. Comfort, Donald Mitchell, Jesse Lyman Hurlbut, Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, A. Cleveland Coxe, Clement of Rome, Polycarp of Smyrna, Barnabas, Ignatius of Antioch, Papias, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus of Lyons, Hermas, Tatian, Athenagoras, Theophilus of Antioch, Clement of Alexandria, Tertullian, Minucius Felix, Commodianus, Origen, Hippolytus of Rome, Cyprian of Carthage, Presbyter of Rome Caius, Novatian, Gregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius of Alexandria, Julius Africanus, Anatolius of Laodicea, Alexander of Cappadocia, Theognostus of Alexandria, Pierius of Alexandria, Theonas of Alexandria, Phileas, Pamphilus of Caesarea, Malchion of Antioch, Archelaus, Alexander of Lycopolis, Peter of Alexandria, Alexander of Alexandria, Methodius of Olympus, Arnobius, Lactantius, Venantius Fortunatus, Asterius Urbanus, Victorinus of Pettau, Dionysius of Rome, Theodotus, Pseudo-Clement, Allan Menzies, Philip Schaff, Augustine of Hippo, John Chrysostom, William J. Federer, D. Thaine Norris, Hanan Isachar, J. Gardner Wilkinson, Venerable Bede, Edward Marshall, Benedict Zimmerman, David Lewis, John of the Cross, Albert Rawson, Julius Bewer, Charles Horne, Alban Butler, Theodore Alois Buckley, Thomas Aquinas, Catholic Church, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, HarperCollins, Colin Day, Vincent McNabb, Martin H. Manser, William Smith, J. M. Harden, Nicholas Patrick Wiseman, R. E. M. Bain, James Lee, John Vincent, Terry Eddinger, W. Murray Severance, Judson Cornwall, Stelman Smith, Ludwig Ott, George Leo Haydock, Kendell Easley, Steven Cox, G. K. Chesterton, von Hefele, Karl Joseph, Thomas V. Brisco, Marsha Smith, June Swann, Trent C. Butler, Christopher Church, David S. Dockery, Hans Holbein, Benedict of Nursia, Willis Judson Beecher, William Wright, John Kitto, John Dalton, Teresa of Avila, Francis de Sales, H. P. V. Nunn, BiblePlaces.com, Logos Bible Software, W. Hall Harris III, Elliot Ritzema, Douglas Mangum, John Dunham, Jeffrey A. Reimer, Micah Wierenga, John MacEvilly, Edward H. Landon, Michael S. Heiser, H. David Philipps, Sylvester Joseph Hunter, Francis Ernest Gigot, John Gilmary Shea, Charles Barnes, Frederick Justus Knecht, Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection, Elder Mullan, Ignatius of Loyola, Henry Denzinger, Roy J. Deferrari, Karl Rahner, Anselm of Canterbury, George Lewis, Bernard of Clairvaux, Coventry Patmore, Marianne Caroline Patmore, James Strong, T. N. Taylor, Thérèse of Lisieux, Browne, John Canne, R. A. Torrey, Thomas Scott, B. Blayney, Michael Tweedale, Sidney Deane, Paschal Robinson, Francis of Assisi
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Over 150 resources worth $2,790.00 in print—an incredible value!
The Catholic Foundations Library allows you to study Scripture in the light of tradition. With over 150 books, this library has the resources you need to delve deep into the Faith, from the Catechism of the Catholic Church, to the writings of St. Augustine, to the documents of Vatican II. With a couple clicks, move from the readings of the day to reference works, commentaries, and theological volumes. These powerful resources make the Catholic Foundations Library a solid platform for your study.
Catholic Foundations Library not only provides you with a massive electronic library, but it is also powerful and easy to use. Logos Bible Software 4 is robust enough for seasoned scholars, but accessible to Bible students of all levels. With its powerful, intuitive tools, Logos 4 gets you into the Scripture. Logos 4 is a powerful, fast, high-end web application. It automatically updates itself and makes sure you have the latest and greatest. Whether you’re preparing for next Sunday’s homily, working on your dissertation, or having daily devotional time, Logos Bible Software 4 is the tool for the task.
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Greek and Hebrew for Everyone.
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Catholic Foundations Library contains over 150 resources:
- Seven Catholic Bibles, including Greek and Latin texts
- Dozens of primary source texts, including the canons of the councils of Trent, Vatican I, and Vatican II
- Twenty-three volumes of writings of the Church Fathers
- Thirteen Scriptural commentaries, including the Catena Aurea of St. Thomas Aquinas
- Fifteen volumes of theology and exegesis
- Over 22 volumes of devotional works, including Butler’s Lives of the Saints and the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola
- Thousands of high-quality maps, photos, infographics, and other media
- 10,000+ sermon illustrations, quotations, and other helps
- Catholic Lectionary
Bible Translations
Bible Translations: With Catholic Foundations Library, you have instant access to five Bible translations, including the New American Bible Revised Edition, the Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition, the Douay-Rheims, the Latin Vulgate, and several other English translations.
Get into the Scripture every day with a customizable reading plan tailored to your schedule, or through the lectionary’s daily readings in your favorite translation. Compare versions quickly and easily. Click cross-references. With Logos 4, any Bible reference in any book automatically opens to your preferred translations. The words of Scripture are now at your fingertips!
View the complete list of Bible Translations in the Catholic Foundations Library.
Interlinear Bible
The English-Greek Reverse Interlinear New Testament Lexham English Bible is built directly into your Lexham English Bible in the Catholic Foundations Library, allowing you to see the Greek behind your text. Highlight a portion of the text in one interlinear, and Logos 4 will highlight the corresponding text in your other open Bibles.
Bible Commentaries
Catholic Foundations Library contains thirteen volumes of line-by-line Scriptural commentary. It includes the famous Haydock Bible Commentary and the classic Catena Aurea, or Golden Chain, of St. Thomas Aquinas. In addition, many of the works of the Church Fathers are treated as commentaries and open automatically, revealing patristic treatments of a given passage. With Logos 4, you also get the most advanced tools anywhere for using your commentaries. Searching for a text automatically returns your favorite commentaries in the Passage Guide—all automatically opened to the correct page.
View the complete list of Bible commentaries in the Catholic Foundations Library.
Bible Reference
Bible dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference books are essential for understanding the topics described in Scripture. The Foundations Library is packed with ten Bible reference resources. Foundations Library contains important reference works like Harper's Bible Dictionary, The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, The Holman Illustrated Bible Dictionary, and much more.
In Logos 4, references are extensively linked, which means you can navigate thick volumes at the click of a button. No more scanning indexes looking for the right article, or losing your place while you track down a cross-reference. With the speed of Logos Bible Software 4, you can put your reference library to work.
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Biblical Studies
Catholic Foundations Library contains important resources for your Scripture study, including Outlines of the Life of Our Lord. This volume follows Christ's life chronilogically, and provides social, political, and religious contexts to the Gospels.
Maps, Photos, and Media
Learn about and share the Bible with thousands of beautiful maps, infographics, diagrams, charts, and graphs. Logos 4 pulls information from one-of-a-kind databases and renders it visually like you’ve never seen it before. Apply filters. Graph your text. View thousands of images from the Holy Land. Export your graphics to your handout or PowerPoint presentation at the click of a mouse.
View the complete list of maps, photos and media in the Catholic Foundations Library.
Preaching and Teaching
Catholic Foundations Library includes two volumes of thousands of influential passages, phrases, and quotations that have influenced the early and modern world. Allow the master preachers of the past centuries help make your homilies and sermons better, or use their references as inspirational and insightful commentaries to complement your Bible study.
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Devotionals
Catholic Foundations Library includes 22 volumes of devotional and spiritual writing, from Butler’s Lives of the Saints to the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius to the writings of St. Thérèse of Lisieux. Catholic Foundations Library allows you to read Scripture along with the feasts of the liturgical year or to study to the Bible with the mystics and saints as companions.
View the complete list of devotionals in the Catholic Foundations Library.
Theology
In addition to dozens of Patristic writings, Catholic Foundations Library contains fifteen volumes of medieval and modern theological material. The library includes the Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas, in English, the massive Dogmatic Theology of Joseph Pohle, the writings of Chesterton, Bl. John Henry Newman, and much, much more.
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Church History and Tradition
Catholic Foundations Library includes almost forty volumes of historical texts, including the Early Church Fathers Collection (23 vols.), the canons of the councils of Trent, Vatican I, and Vatican II, Denzinger’s Sources of Catholic Dogma, and many more. In addition, the library includes many detailed historical studies, from Karl Hefele’s five-volume History of the Councils of the Church, to academic monographs on the Reformation. With Catholic Foundations Library, the Scripture can be read in historical context and in the midst of the tradition.
View the complete list of church history and tradition titles in the Catholic Foundations Library.
Lectionary
Catholic Foundations Library contains the Catholic Lectionary—readings used at Mass for Sundays and major feasts of the liturgical year. View the day’s readings in full. Re-read the lectionary texts from last Sunday. Study future readings—tomorrow, next week, next month, next year.
Parallel Passages and Harmonies
Learn how various sections of the Bible combine to form a unified narrative. With parallel passages and harmonies, you can discover the similarities and differences between sections of Scripture. Catholic Foundations Library contains a dozen parallel passages and harmonies. You’ll find classics harmonies, like Aland’s Synopsis of the Four Gospels as well as harmonies available exclusively in Logos, like Rick Brannan’s Harmony of the Pastoral Epistles.
View the complete list of parallel passages and harmonies in the Catholic Foundations Library.
Original Language Lexicons
Study etymological history. Learn the pronunciation of Greek and Hebrew words. Find usage examples. With six lexicons available in the Catholic Foundations Library, you have all the dictionaries and lexicons you need to study the ancient languages, whether Greek, Hebrew, or Latin.
View the complete list of original language lexicons in the Catholic Foundations Library.
Catholic Foundations Library
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