As you may have heard, Logos has undergone a big shake up, moving to a subscription based (monthly fee) system. The end result of this is that Logos is actually cheaper now than it has been in the past when you had to upgrade to new editions. Many are averse to the monthly fee but if you have any interest in future upgrades, you are most likely going to come out ahead with a monthly subscription.
Either way, you can always add more books to your Logos Bible software and the cheapest way to add books is through buy packages of books in bulk. You can do this through Legacy Libraries, like you have in the past and as of this month (Oct 2024) Logos has added yearly library packages starting with the 2025 packages (starter, bronze, silver, gold, etc). They also have 2025 preaching and 2025 research packages of the various levels (starter+).
I noticed these packages on the Logos site and requested a package for review. Full disclosure, Logos opened up the 2025 Collector’s package for me to review. The fact that they gave this to me doesn’t in any way impact the positivity or negativity of my review.
Here is a walk through of some of what you are going to get in this package as well as a video explanation if you find that more helpful.
First, a breakdown of the number of volumes by category and the standouts listed under each one (you can purchase this package or check out the others at this link – 2025 Collector’s Package (8120 vols) & All 2025 Packages:
- English Bibles – 65
- Bible Commentaries – 2586
- Classic commentaries for just about every book
- Black’s NT
- Book By Book
- Christ centered exposition
- Continental Commentary
- ESV Expository
- Exegetical Guide to the GNT
- Focus on the Bible
- Hermenia
- ICC
- Interpretation
- John Calvin
- New Covenant
- NICOT
- NICNT
- NIC Heritage
- OT & NT For Everyone
- Pillar
- Pillar Heritage
- Walter Brueggemann set
- College Press NIV commentaries
- NTL & OTL
- Tyndale
- UBS Handbooks
- Wiersbe’s series
- Westminster Bible commentary
- Bible dictionaries and encyclopedias – 25
- Anchor Bible dictionary
- IVP Dictionaries OT and NT – full set
- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
- Theological Dictionaries – 10
- OT Studies – 291
- Biblical History of Israel by Provan
- Library of Hebrew Bible/OT Studies – great set
- Complete Biblical Library – OT
- Oxford Handbooks on the OT
- NT Studies – 461
- Dunn Christianity in the Making
- Several of the Library of NT Studies (full set?)
- Conversion of the Imagination – Hays
- Rubel Shelly’s 2 volumes on Gospels and Acts
- Jesus the Jewish Theologian – Young
- Paul and the Popular Philosophers – Malherbe
- Paul the Jewish Theologian – Young
- Paul, Law and Jewish People – E.P. Sanders
- Select works of C.K. Barrett
- Studies on the NT and Its World – 15 vols
- Acts in the 1st century setting (5 vols)
- General Biblical Studies – 188
- Carta series (23 vols)
- Oxford handbooks
- Devotionals and Spiritual Growth – 538
- Many daily devotional books
- 365 day devotional books
- For Everyone study guides (19 vols)
- Francis Chan collection
- My Utmost for his Highest
- Watchman Nee
- SPCK prayer collection
- Wiersbe’s Bible study collection
- Bible Surveys and Intros – 69
- Some great NT intros in here
- Courses – 2
- Preaching and Teaching – 164
- Lots of illustration resources (tip bundles these into a set that can be searched so you can search all illustration resources with one search for you classes/sermons)
- Sermons – 65
- Spurgeon
- Brueggemann
- and many others
- Hermeneutics and Exegesis – 45
- Gordon Fee and Stuart are in here
- Textual criticism books
- I Howard Marshall, Carl Holladay, Raymond Brown etc
- Greek Texts and Translations – 21
- NA29
- UBS5
- Critical apparatus
- Greek Grammars, Lexicons and Tools – 42
- Here is where you learn Greek!
- LXX – 11
- Hebrew Texts and Translations – 264
- Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia
- Most of these resources are specific Dead sea scroll text – complete text in Hebrew?
- Hebrew Grammars, Lexicons and Tools – 68
- Here is where you learn Hebrew
- Latin – 6
- Other Ancient Languages – 31
- Journals – 1000
- Some great ones in here
- Systematic Theology – 118
- Karl Barth – Church Dogmatics full set
- Biblical Theology – 115
- New studies in Biblical Theology – full set?
- Bible Speaks Today Themes (23 vols)
- Goppelt’s Theology of the NT 2 vols
- Church History and Historical Theology – 174
- So much church history here
- Philokalia
- Church Fathers – 333
- Greek and English church fathers by the droves!
- Medieval Theology – 3
- Reformation – 8
- Confessions – 5
- Liturgy – 29
- Lectionaries – 2
- Archaeology – 7
- Judaica – 6
- Spirituality – 44
- Eugene Peterson
- many more
- Pastoral Care and Counseling – 314
- books on just about every topic you can imagine
- Ministry – 100
- Books on many topics
- SPCK library of ministry (13 vols)
- Marriage and Family – 44
- Counseling books
- Christian counseling books
- Apologetics – 137
- Ray Comfort series
- Norma Geisler
- Robert Morey
- Atlases, Maps – 21
- Philosophy – 44
- 21st century Theology – 357
- Walter Brueggemann collection (22 vols)
- N.T. Wright collection (24 vols)
- Oxford handbooks
- 20th century Theology – 211
- Bonhoeffer collection
- Kuyper collected works
- Ryrie collection
- Yoder collection
- Ratzinger collection
- Alister McGrath collection
- Robert Mounce collection
- 19th century Theology – 50
- 18th century Theology – 3
- 17th century Theology – 6
Needless to say – this is a MASSIVE set that will give you enough books for a few lifetimes of study. The beauty of these books is that they work with Logos so whatever level of functionality you have with Logos, you can use on these books for your study! This helps power up your study and helps you move more quickly to the best resources so that you don’t waste too much time in your study.
I hope you will consider the 2025 packages…whichever flavor and size fits your needs and budget! Here is a video that walks through the 2025 Collector’s package!
