Tim Wood
Pastor • Mountain Sky Conference, United Methodist Church
- The upside to this collection is that it includes everything John Wesley wrote. If you just need Wesley's works and don't want to both poking around the internet for digitzed copies, this is worth the money. If you're planning to use this in a seminary context, be aware of two challenges. First, your professors will probably be referencing the critical edition by Albert C. Outler (from the 1980s). This copy is digitized from the a 19th century copy of the text. Be careful that you verify any quotes you utilize against Outler. Second, there is no master table of contents. If you're assignment sermons 43, 2, 77, and 120 (my assignment for this week), you'll be manually hunting through the various volumes to find which ones contain sermons ... and then which of those contain the sermons that you're seeking. It's frustrating to buy a logos book and then have to double-back and buy physical books because the logos copy doesn't include a master table of contents or use the critical text.
- I was considering purchasing this for a graduate class in Greek. However, from reviews below, there are mistakes in the text (noted in reviews two+ years old) and this does not have the apparatus (reviews from 5+ years ago). As an aside, I'm a bit puzzled why no one at Logos/Faithlife has responded to any of the reviews noting problems with this edition. Returning to the edition itself, the lack of an aparatus is a major oversight because the apparatus is not only a requirement for use in a seminary or academic environment, it also allows a pastor to see where there are differences in manuscripts. I've already written a few sermons where that range led to a much more nuanced sermon.
- We do have a different edition of this work that does include the apparatus, see below. Both editions have been updated multiple times since their initial release. https://www.logos.com/product/55181/the-greek-new-testament-5th-ed-ubs5-with-critical-apparatus
- Most are over a century old and have been updated multiple times. If you need to cite anything besides printed text, you're out of luck. Radio was brand new. TV was half a century in the future. And the first science fiction stories and thought pieces about the idea we now call the internet were farther out. Logos has a propensity to recycle free content for profit however the material should have some value for the audience. What would be useful would a set of current references. A list of styles guides to consider: * The Chicago Manual of Style * Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association * The Elements of Style (Strunk) * MLA Handbook Some possible current writing guides (e.g. "They Say / I Say": The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing, A Guide for Writing About Theology and Religion)