PTC offers its students a specially curated package of Logos Bible Software. This is available to you if you are an ACT degree student entering first year studies with PTC as your home college, whether you are studying full or part time.*
PTC Logos includes close on 600 titles, including Greek and Hebrew texts and tools, more than 20 key textbooks set for PTC units, popular commentaries, and a significant range of historical and theological resources. Some highlights of the package are below.
Three PTC Logos Offer options
1. Use PTC Logos at no cost to you*
You can use the PTC Logos licence at no cost to you for up to three years (subject to licence availability), providing your studies are at PTC, you enrol in at least one unit each semester, and you intend on completing your degree. The package licence remains the property of PTC. Please don’t accept the offer just to trial Logos—try ‘Logos Basic’ instead.
2. Own PTC Logos at no cost to you*
As well as being able to use Logos for free (option 1), you can come to keep your assigned PTC Logos licence at no cost to you when you have completed a three year degree at PTC (BTh, BMin, MDiv; 288 ACT credit points; applicable whether studying full-time or part-time).
3. Purchase PTC Logos*
What if you don’t complete 288 credit points of study? You can buy out the PTC Logos licence with the price reduced according to the ACT credit points you have completed at PTC. PTC Logos even at full price is cheaper than purchasing the same resources directly with Logos (even with the Academic Discount), and the purchase price is reduced by every 12cps completed.
* Terms and conditions apply. Full details are available to prospective and current students.
Package highlights
Bibles and language tools
Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia with morphology
Greek New Testament (UBS5) with morphology
Hebrew Lexicon of the Old Testament (BDB)
Greek Lexicon, Louw and Nida
English Standard Version
New King James Version
Old Testament
The World and the Word: An Introduction to the Old Testament, Eugene Merrill (current OT textbook at PTC)
Biblical Theology, Geerhardus Vos (current OT textbook at PTC)
New Testament
A Biblical-Theological Intro to the New Testament, Michael Kruger (current NT textbook at PTC)
The Cradle, the Cross, and the Crown: An Introduction to the New Testament, Andreas J. Kostenberger (current NT textbook at PTC)
Commentaries
Focus on the Bible Commentaries (41 volumes), Christian Focus (some of which are recommended commentaries for PTC units)
Tyndale Commentaries (60 vols), IVP (some of which are recommended commentaries for PTC units)
Bible Knowledge Commentary
Calvin’s Commentaries
New Bible Commentary
The Epistle to the Romans (New International Commentary), John Murray (recommended commentary for the Romans unit at PTC)
Theology
A New Systematic Theology of the Christian Faith, Robert Reymond (recommended theology textbook at PTC)
Reformed Dogmatics (5 vols), Geerhardus Vos (recommended theology textbook at PTC)
Systematic Theology, Louis Berkhof
Concise Theology, J. I. Packer
Counselling
CrossTalk: Where Life and Scripture Meet, Michael Emlet (counselling textbook at PTC)
How to Help People Change: The Four-Step Biblical Process, Jay E. Adams (counselling textbook at PTC)
Shepherding God’s Flock, Jay E. Adams (counselling textbook at PTC)
The Journal of Pastoral Practice/Biblical Counseling (counselling texts at PTC)
History and primary documents
The Westminster Confession of Faith, and Larger and Shorter Catechisms
The History of Christian Doctrines, Louis Berkhof
History of the Christian Church, Philip Schaff
Complete Ante-Nicene, Nicene, and Post-Nicene Fathers (37 vols)
Institutes of the Christian Religion (1559, Battles translation), John Calvin (required for Reformation history at PTC)
Institutes of the Christian Religion (1536, 1541), John Calvin
Theological Treatises, John Calvin
Tracts Relating to the Reformation (3 vols), John Calvin
The Works of Zwingli
A Body of Divinity, James Ussher
FAQ
Q. What if I want to add my own Logos resources to PTC Logos?
A. That’s fine. Actually, we use your personal Logos account for the PTC resources, so whatever resources were already yours or that you add remain yours. We can add the PTC package, and removed it again if you don’t keep the PTC licence.
Q. I already own Logos. Can I still use PTC Logos?
A. Absolutely. It just requires the PTC Logos licence to be merged with your own licence. The PTC Logos licence can be removed from yours at a later stage, if you don’t end up keeping PTC Logos.
Q. Can PTC help me purchase more Logos resources?
A. Absolutely. You can sign up for the 30% Logos Academic Discount for resources that you wish to purchase yourself. Use your PTC student ID card to register at logos.com.
Q. Can PTC help me even more with purchasing more Logos resources?
A. Absolutely—depending on how well you do in your studies! PTC has an extensive program of prizes for academic attainment and contribution to College life. Prizes are awarded at the March graduation service and can optionally be taken as reimbursement of your Logos purchases, often up to the value of AU$500 per prize.
Logos free trial
If you are not sure if you want to a free PTC Logos licence, there is a free version of the software that you can try. Go to ‘Logos Basic’.
Help using Logos
Help is available in the program itself, and the Logos website has many help options, including numerous instruction videos.
More details
Current PTC students can view the offer document here. You will need a PTC email account to access this.
Applications
Apply here by the end of February or July (for first and second semester entry). Only two applications are made to Logos per year, so late requests cannot be processed.