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The organization of Chafer Seminary's Topical Notebook is similar to that of a published text Systematic Theology. It has multiple volumes, each of which has its own Table of Contents. There is a Master Index, alphabetized for every keyword found in the ten Tables of Contents. The layout for the Master Index is that of a KeyWord In Context (KWIC) Index, including a useful amount of left and right context for each Keyword. And, within Chafer Seminary's Topical Notebook are documents containing biblical content, including point-by-point Bible doctrines, maps, charts, images, Power Point presentations, links, and virtually any machine readable objects. Verse-by-verse Bible studies, while not the primary subject matter of Chafer Seminary's Topical Notebook, may also be linked within this structure.

* SAMs (Summary And Master User E-Links) are disambiguation web pages from which all documents in Chafer Seminary's Topical Notebook are linked. The purpose of each SAM is to be a central linkage document—a Grand Central Station—for helping the user navigate the content of the Topical Notebook, within a category of Biblical truth, allowing discrimination between the various connotations of the keywords that are associated with that topic. How many times have we all searched every page number in an Index, in an attempt to find desired subject matter?

The SAMs solve an impediment to the student’s productivity. For example, the category (keyword) “death” is associated with several different Bible doctrines, occurring in different major categories of Chafer Seminary's Topical Notebook. It may not always be clear to the user which link in the Index to follow. The Index entries associated with “Death” all link to a common SAM. Within that SAM the user will find excerpts from the appropriate Tables of Contents displaying the several theological contexts from which to choose:

(1) Anthropology—Spiritual Death resulting from the Fall of Man;

(2) Anthropology—Physical Death resulting from Spiritual Death;

(3) Hamartiology—Sin Unto Death;

(4) Ecclesiology—Death of a Pastor-Teacher, Christian Death;

(5) Eschatology—Second Death.

At the beginning of each SAM is a definition of the keyword.

In addition to the definitions for keywords within the SAMs, there is a separate Glossary of Biblical Theology, containing hypertext links to definitions of terms used, as well as the major Bible verses that support the theological definitions.