Andrew Jones1) For most of the papacy’s history, popes were elected by the clergy and people of Rome through some form of acclamation. Over time, the role of the laity and the non-cardinal clergy was gradually reduced, but the possibility of the cardinals...
. . . continued from Part III The Schism in the Church was first and foremost a schism in the College of Cardinals, a schism that lined up generally with the sides of the contemporary Hundred Years War between England and France. Once there were...
. . . continued from Part II III. The Crisis of the Late Middle Ages—the Resignations of Celestine V and Gregory XII The High and Late Middle Ages, from about 1140 to about 1378, are sometimes called the period of papal monarchy. During this time...
. . . continued from Part I II. The Crisis of the Eleventh Century—the Resignations of Benedict IX and Gregory VI The second period in which we see papal resignations is the mid–eleventh century. In the ninth century, the papacy had separated...
Pope Benedict XVI’s announcement that he intends to resign from the Chair of Saint Peter has rightfully sent shock waves through the Church. It is an epochal development. This is so not just because papal resignations are rare, but because this time...
The casual observer would be forgiven for failing to recognize Mardi Gras as a centuries-old Christian event. Indeed, there seems little Christian about the contemporary spectacle. It is a party different only in scale from the parties of any given...
2012 was an incredible year for the Catholic department here at Logos. We produced a lot of terrific resources, and our own brand—Verbum. 2013 is shaping up to be even better. We have big plans and are looking for some help. If you or someone you...
Logos Bible Software 5 is here! Logos 5 has been years in the making and it’s full of powerful new tools and exciting features. But we have even more reason to be excited because Logos 5 has a Catholic version –Verbum—with all the functionality of...
A couple weeks ago, I wrote a post about the technology of Scripture study in the Middle Ages. In it, I explained how medieval monks and scholars approached Scripture as an organic aspect of the living Tradition. The Bible was understood primarily...
It’s often said that Benedictine monasticism saved Western civilization during the Dark Ages. Normally, we think of an ink-stained monk huddled over manuscripts in a damp scriptorium, straining in the inadequate light of a flickering candle, copying...
One of the most useful things you can do with Logos resources is give them tags. Tags are essentially custom pieces of metadata, and they behave like other pieces of data—author, publisher, or resource type, for example. When you tag a resource...
I am an ecclesiastical historian by training and a Bible software guy by trade. Which, I think, puts me in the unique position to write about the history of the intersection of technology and Scripture study in a series of posts. We might start with...
To the modern ear, the word “doctor” is normally associated with physicians, or perhaps university professors. But in Latin, the word means “teacher,” and docere, “to teach,” connotes “to show” or “to demonstrate”; a doctor is one who teaches us...
Power Lookup is one of the most versatile of Logos 4’s many tools. It is used most often to display the cited text of footnotes automatically and without having to click on, or even roll over, the note annotation in the text. So, for example, if a...
The Logos version of the Catechism is the most powerful and user-friendly edition of the Catechism ever made. Just by opening the Catechism and rolling over some of the citations, the benefits of Logos are clear. However, in order to get the most...
Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) is certainly one of the most important theologians in history. His immense corpus of work covers every aspect of Christian life and doctrine, penetrating to the core of mankind’s relationship with God. Despite its...