Conversation Between Thrash and Ted Logan

I am getting Logos!
Thankfully I was not able to get Bibleworks for Christmas, mainly for the reason that I will soon be able to get Logos at a significantly discounted price. The Religion Dept. at ETBU are going to make the software mandatory for students this upcoming Fall.

Woo!!

By the way, Bibleworks does NOT have Kohler-Baumgartner or BDAG. It has an abbreviated BDAG (put together by Gingrich or Danker or one of the BDAG guys), BDB and Holladay as well as a few other lexica, but you have to pay extra for the standard works (obviously BDB is a standard work, but an outdated one).

My opinion is that it's not worth it for these reasons:
1 - Commentaries are one resource that I desperately want to hold in my hands. I'd rather buy them piecemeal than have them only in a program on my computer. If I do get an e-book, I want it on my Kindle.
2 - The packages that actually have the resources that I would want are (as you said) so expensive that I can't justify the expense. Especially since you can get commentaries at great prices elsewhere. I quintupled my commentary collection for like $150 when a fellow seminarian decided to go into ministry instead of academic research. Seminary students often unload amazing amounts of books at ridiculous prices.
3 - Just considering the text itself, Bibleworks does so much so well that, for ministry, I can't imagine needing anything else.
4 - From the videos I've seen, Logos looks like a resource hog. Bibleworks seems very light to me.

Hey, I noticed you mentioned you have Bibleworks. I am seriously considering getting it, mostly because I have seen the usefulness of it in the classroom. I do have a question for you: have you used Logos before, or know anything about it? I know it is much more expensive than Bibleworks, but I don't know if it is really worth it. I know it comes with a lot of add-ons, commentaries, and that you can by additional commentaries for it, but it is just ungodly expensive.

Yeah. He's a Phil. of Religion prof here at Trinity, and he teaches the Intro to Apologetics class, which I took last semester (it was one of those first-year MDiv courses that I never got around to taking...). He has a really odd accent, though. He grew up in Japan, but his family is from the Midwest. He basically talks like a Midwesterner, except that every single vowel and consonant is fully pronounced. Like that last clause would have been:

"Ex-CEPT that e-ver-y sINGle VOW-el and CON-soh-nant is fully proh-nounced."

Anyway, I haven't read the book. I'll have to check it out. One cool thing about him is that since he did his Ph.D. under John Hick (the guru of religious pluralism) and grew up in an extremely secularized country and interacted with tons of Buddhists, he's great at understanding where pluralists and others are coming from - he really understands them. That's something that's sometimes lacking in inter-religious dialogue among Christian apologists, I think.

Hey!
I was talking about Dissonant Voices: Religious Pluralism and the Question of Truth.

In our Comparative World Religions course we used it as our textbook. Loved it!
And, wow! I had no idea he was your prof!

Hey, Thrash. You responded to this post with a UC, "Yeah, Netland is way better." Which Netland book are you talking about? I ask because Harold Netland is one of my profs, and he's really cool.