Catholic Bible Study Software

[D317]

Does anyone know of a good software application for Catholic Bible Study?

I’m ready to make the plunge but would like to hear an recommendations from the CA community.

 

[dmar198]

Does anyone know of a good software application for Catholic Bible Study?

I use e-sword. It isn’t specifically Catholic, but it is Catholic-friendly. You can download pretty much any Bible-version, including Catholic ones with all 73 Books, and it displays them all. You can also download the writings of the Early Church Fathers in a 9-volume set. Did I mention it is all free?

 

[ryanoneil]

I’m not personally familiar with the software, but heard Steve Ray talk about it on the radio. He has alot of resources here.

catholicconvert.com/Default.aspx?tabid=89

Peace,

Ryan

 

[juliamajor]

Isn’ t there a Catholic Version of the “Logos” software out there?

 

[TheMese]

Libronix/Logos software is certainly the state of the art. Many of the packages cost hundreds of dollars. However, you can just buy say the RSVCE (First Edition), the NAB, New Jerusalem and/or the NRSV for $40 each and download the Libronix system for free of course.

It’s pretty amazing. I just updated it to 3.0e. It’s a lot more professional than e-sword but the main problem for me with e-sword is I haven’t been able to get any Catholic resources on it except the Douay Rheims.

E-sword charge for many of the better Protestant versions.

Libronix is about 15 times more sophisticated than e-sword! If you haven’t got a fast broadband connection don’t even think about it.

logos.com/support/downloads/ldls
logos.com/ebooks/groups/ebooks/bibles

 

[D317]

Thank you all for your help.

 

[Michael_G]

Does anyone know of a good software application for Catholic Bible Study?

I’m ready to make the plunge but would like to hear an recommendations from the CA community.

might want to check out e-sword info on this site which started up with links for catholic and additional scholarly work modules for e-sword. this is dynamite because it is free and and has a number of Catholic resources now available all available on the web as add ons—hopefully more in the future.

forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?p=3280257#post3280257

 

[ckonrad]

Does anyone know of a good software application for Catholic Bible Study?

I’m ready to make the plunge but would like to hear an recommendations from the CA community.

I never really understood the point of bible study software, why not just get a nice catholic study bible and a good catholic bible commentary. If you want to understand the biblical basis of the catholic faith i would recommend the book by john salza amazon.com/Biblical-Basis-Catholic-Faith/dp/1592761461 its a great book.

 

[davidv]

I never really understood the point of bible study software, why not just get a nice catholic study bible and a good catholic bible commentary. If you want to understand the biblical basis of the catholic faith i would recommend the book by john salza amazon.com/Biblical-Basis-Catholic-Faith/dp/1592761461 its a great book.

For those who are proficient with computers. searches are much quicker and more thorough that manual methods.

 

[Joe_5859]

Does anyone know of a good software application for Catholic Bible Study?

I’m ready to make the plunge but would like to hear an recommendations from the CA community.

Two words: Biblia Clerus!

It was compiled by the Vatican Congregation for the Clergy. It’s a verse-by-verse commentary (or at least passage-by-passage) on the entire Bible. It gives you links to the writings of the Early Church Fathers as well as Magisterial documents that make reference to whatever passage in Scripture you are looking for. It’s the Bible study tool par excellence. And best of all, it’s free!

Here’s a thread with more info on it:

forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=204572

The St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology also has six excellent online Bible studies.

Another great resource is Welcome to the Catholic Church. It has the RSV and NAB versions of the Bible, the Catena Aurea (verse-by-verse commentary on the Gospels by the Early Church Fathers), as well as the Catechism, documents of Vatican II, most papal documents from the last 100 years, the Summa, the Code of Canon Law, etc., etc. It’s all fully searchable and interlinked (i.e., if the Catechism quotes Matthew 16:18, you click on the footnote and it takes you to Matthew 16:18). It’s great!

 

[jblake]

juliamajor;:

Isn’ t there a Catholic Version of the “Logos” software out there?:

There is a Catholic edition of Logos, but it is not distributed by Libronoix.

For Macintosh users, Accordance has an edition just for Catholics. If you use Windows, it will run using an emulation program. (Available for gratis with purchase of the software.)

I’m not aware of a Mac emulation layer for Linux.

Accordance under BasilikII under WINE almost works. (But you need a techie geek to help you configure it, and maybe even to get it to run.)

xan

jonathon

 

[ckonrad]

Two words: Biblia Clerus!

It was compiled by the Vatican Congregation for the Clergy. It’s a verse-by-verse commentary (or at least passage-by-passage) on the entire Bible. It gives you links to the writings of the Early Church Fathers as well as Magisterial documents that make reference to whatever passage in Scripture you are looking for. It’s the Bible study tool par excellence. And best of all, it’s free!

Here’s a thread with more info on it:

forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=204572

The St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology also has six excellent online Bible studies.

Another great resource is Welcome to the Catholic Church. It has the RSV and NAB versions of the Bible, the Catena Aurea (verse-by-verse commentary on the Gospels by the Early Church Fathers), as well as the Catechism, documents of Vatican II, most papal documents from the last 100 years, the Summa, the Code of Canon Law, etc., etc. It’s all fully searchable and interlinked (i.e., if the Catechism quotes Matthew 16:18, you click on the footnote and it takes you to Matthew 16:18). It’s great!

wow i never heard of clerus, that is pretty great stuff. You can download the entire content of the site too thanks for sharing that.

 

[Philip4Christ]

I use e-sword. It isn’t specifically Catholic, but it is Catholic-friendly. You can download pretty much any Bible-version, including Catholic ones with all 73 Books, and it displays them all. You can also download the writings of the Early Church Fathers in a 9-volume set. Did I mention it is all free?

Please tell me how to download Bible-version, Catholic ones with all 73 Books, where can I find it please.

Thanks and God bless

 

[jblake]

Philip4Christ;:

Please tell me how to download Bible-version, Catholic ones

User created e-Sword resources are at:
esnips.com/web/CatholicApolegetics
esnips.com/web/CatholicEsword

Official releases are at e-sword.net/bibles.html
Douay-Rheims Bible (w/ Deuterocanon)
KJVA
Bishop’s Bible
Geneva Bible
KJV-1611
Vulgate

At eStudySource.com
NRSV-CE
RSV

jonathon

 

[Don9of11]

I use and would recommend the Faith Database. I have used e-sword before but it in noway compares to the Faith Database. The Faith Database comes with 15 different bible translations such as the Latin Vulgate, Greek, Douay, Youngs, NAB. Check out the link to learn more.

 

[jblake]

Don9of11;:

Faith Database.

I have used e-sword before but it in noway compares to the Faith Database.

I didn’t see any functionality in Faith Database, that e-Sword doesn’t offer.
(I’ll grant that might be due to not all of the functionality that Faith Database offers is adequately described/mentioned on their site, coupled with my customization of e-Sword to provide functionality that nobody else has.)

I did see some resources in Faith Database, that aren’t currently available for e-Sword. Most of the content in Faith Database that is not in e-Sword, is public domain, and scheduled for conversion to e-Sword.

jonathon

 

[rony1434]

Hey thanks for sharing this software.
I found a website while searching on internet ebookserenity.com/ , Is this site really good for downloading of ebooks?

 

[chrisb]

Libronix/Logos software is certainly the state of the art. Many of the packages cost hundreds of dollars. However, you can just buy say the RSVCE (First Edition), the NAB, New Jerusalem and/or the NRSV for $40 each and download the Libronix system for free of course.

It’s pretty amazing. I just updated it to 3.0e. It’s a lot more professional than e-sword but the main problem for me with e-sword is I haven’t been able to get any Catholic resources on it except the Douay Rheims.

E-sword charge for many of the better Protestant versions.

Libronix is about 15 times more sophisticated than e-sword! If you haven’t got a fast broadband connection don’t even think about it.

logos.com/support/downloads/ldls
logos.com/ebooks/groups/ebooks/bibles

Thank you for pointing us to Logos. It’s exactly what I was looking for! God Bless!