Studying a Topic with Logos Bible Software (LT103) uses the same specific Bible passage as in LT102 but examines topics within it. The course guides you through specific steps for topical studies. It begins with how to organize both the resources you want to search and the new material that you discover. Then it turns to the various guides you might use to identify and research a topic, whether as a brief topic review or as an in-depth analysis. Finally, this course shows you how to use Logos Bible Software to outline your topical study. Learning this type of workflow for researching a topic can help you get the most out of the breadth of your digital library.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion you should be able to:
Create Favorites folders and use them to organize what you find while doing a topic study
Use the sophisticated search and filtering options in the Bible Browser to identify and focus your topics
Distinguish the search types you can do with the Topic Guide from those you can do with the Sermon Starter Guide
Use a Factbook report to find Bible dictionaries that speak to the topic you’re searching on
Prioritize Bible dictionaries and other resources so they come to the top of any search
Search your top Bibles and use the Grid view to identify synonyms and related terms to your key word
Use the Bible Sense Lexicon to broaden and/or refine the terms for your topic
Do word studies on your topic terms using the Lexham Theological Wordbook and the Bible Word Study guide
Use Logos Bible Software tagging to do thematic searches and identify key passages related to your topic
Build custom collections to focus your searches within particular kinds of resources in your own Logos library
Use the Sermon Starter Guide to find and export thematic outlines to the Sermon Editor or to your word processor
Course Outline
Introduction
Getting Started
Unit 1 Study a Topic
Favorites Folder and Bible Browser
Topic Guide and Sermon Starter Guide
Introducing the Factbook
The Factbook and Bible Dictionaries
Introducing Cultural Concepts
Cultural Concepts and the Bible Sense Lexicon
Original Language Analysis
Unit 2 Search a Topic
Introducing Topical Tagging
Thematic Searches
Searching Biblical Theologies
Unit 3 Outline a Topic
Outlining a Topic
Thematic Outlines
Conclusion
Going Forward
Video hours: 0.75