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I don't personally have a strong opinion about identifying the
EarlyFathers Genbook as containing heretical material, though I think
Eeli is right that the wrong notice would only look ridiculous to the
kind of people who would make use of this. Regarding the question of breaking up the module, if there aren't major performance problems with keeping it together, there is good reason to keep it as one module. It was published as a set and would be easier to download as a set, but the more practical reason for me is that it makes it easier to search the module. I am working on a paper on the ethics of lending in the OT, so to find out what patristic interpretation of the issue was I decided to search for the word "usury" using BibleTime. It turned up 82 hits. Being far from a theological library, I was elated to see that I could do some reasonable primary source reading on that issue for my own paper. On the other hand, I noticed that Augustine's comments on the Psalms are in there, and I agree it would be nice to have them in commentary form. My suggestion is to keep a complete module available and then when someone wants to have a work from that set as a commentary he or she can do the work to spin it off for that purpose. That brings me to another issue: the ability to search genbooks and commentaries. I have a vague memory of comments on this forum to the effect that such a feature isn't necessary or desireable, but the Father's module is a prime example of the kind of genbook that one would want to be able to search. This isn't just useful for scholars but for your average person who wants to know what different writers have said about "holiness" or "creation" or "the Holy Spirit." I use that feature all the time in several other Bible software programs because it saves me time having to read through a lot of material to find what I am looking for (and is also the reason why theological libraries subscribe to ATLASerials and such). I don't know what kind of load that puts on the engine (creating indexes and such), but it seems to me it ought to be a basic part of the functionality of the Sword front-ends. Not everyone would make use of such a feature but many would, and apparently the engine supports it if BibleTime does. It would just be nice to have a general search dialog that gave the option to search in all genbooks and commentaries and maybe even dictionaries. Daniel Brian J. Dumont wrote: Karl Kleinpaste wrote:"Brian J. Dumont" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: -- PMBX license 1502 |
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