Online Portal to Holdings and Information Resources

Ophir was the port through which ancient Israel imported a great wealth of resources.

 

Hogue Library

Books
See the Library Catalog.
Music on CD
See the Library Catalog.
Journal Articles
For journal articles, go into Populi, and log in using your NEBC ID information. For theological journals, use Galaxie; for all others, use Gale.

E-books

NEBC Selections

Alexander, Archibald: Thoughts on Religious Experience
Augustine: Well-Known Works, Some works
Baxter, Richard: The Reformed Pastor
Boettner, Lorraine: Limited Atonement
Bounds, E. M.: Prayer
Brooks, Thomas: Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices
Burroughs, Jeremiah: Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment
Calvin, John: Institutes of the Christian Life
Hodge, Charles: Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians, Systematic Theology Vol.1, 2, & 3
Luther, Martin: Selected works
Murray, John: Sovereignty of God
Owen, John: Glory of Christ, Doctrine of Justification by Faith
Pink, Arthur W.: Attributes of God, Inspiration of the Scriptures
Piper, John: Desiring God has about 80 of his books available for download
Poythress, Vern: 13 of his books: Gender-Neutral Bible Controversy; God-Centered; In the Beginning was the Word; Inerrancy and the Gospels; Inerrancy and Worldview; Redeeming Science; Redeeming Sociology; Returning King; Science and Hermeneutics; Shadow of Christ in the Law of Moses; Symphonic Theology; Understanding Dispensationalists; and What are Spiritual Gifts?
Ryle, J.C.: Holiness
Spurgeon, Charles H.: Treasury of David, The Spurgeon Archives has much more of his work available
Watson, Thomas: Body of Divinity
Whitefield, George: Sermons

Christian Topic Collections
Biblos.com
Bible study tools in many languages, including Bible versions/translations, an online parallel Bible, and Greek and Hebrew interlinear Bibles.

Christian Classics Ethereal Library
An extensive collections of classics in Christian literature.

Desiring God (John Piper’s books)
John Piper, a pastor in Minnesota and well-known published author, makes the texts of about 80 of his books, and his sermons available for free download from his website.

NTS Library [of Christian theological e-books] This is a free service provided by Northwestern Theological Seminary. It contains links to the PDF version of many Christian books, which can use or download free of charge. Topics covered are:

Apologetics (7 titles)
Bible Studies (14 titles)
Bible Surveys (4 titles)
Biographies (13 titles)
Christian Doctrine (26 titles)
Christian Living (24 titles)
Christian Reference (16 titles)
Christian Counseling (6 books)
Christian Ethics (2 books)
Evangelism (4 books)
Hermeneutics & Homiletics (4 books)
Holy Bible – foreign language translations (12 books)
Ministry & Missions (10 books)
Miscellaneous (4 books)
Philosophers & Church Fathers (50 books)
Philosophy (17 books)
Theology (54 books)
Worship (3 books)

Puritan Library
This website provides links to many resources and includes a collection of about 100 of the most famous of the Puritan authors’ books in PDF and HTML formats, some of which are downloadable.

Threshold
A link to a whole host of no-charge open access Christian e-books.

WordSearch
This commercial site, based in Austin, Texas, has been producing software and electronic books for the Christian market since 1987. The company operated as NavPress Software for over 10 years before becoming WORDsearch Corp. in July 2002. WORDsearch offers more than 2,400 volumes of electronic books for Christian pastors, teachers, and laypeople.
General Topic Collections
Bartleby: Great Books Online (contains fiction, nonfiction, verse, and reference)

Digital Book Index
The last decade has seen the development of a large library of “digital” or “electronic” books. While there are still large gaps, a very substantial body of “Western” thought is available in the form of downloadable or on-line books. Most major writers, from Plato to Hemingway, are now accessible on the Internet. Subjects range from the highly scholarly to the contemporary and popular — especially as more commercial publishers discover the virtues of “on-line” distribution. This resource indexes most major eBook sites, along with thousands of smaller specialized sites. In some subject categories, the resources you find here are more comprehensive than those of all but the largest of research libraries, due to the budget and space constraints of smaller institutions. The Digital Book Index provides links to more than 148,000 full-text digital books from more than 1,800 commercial and non-commercial publishers, universities, and various private sites. More than 120,000 of these books, texts, and documents are available free, while many others are available at very modest cost.

Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)

The Free Library (includes articles in addition to the books)

Google Books

Internet Archive

ManyBooks.net

Online Books Page (more than 40,000 English works in various formats)

Project Gutenberg
This website offers access to 30,000 free, non-copyrighted e-books.

Free Ebook compilation by Abell Library of Austin College
New Testament
Note: The following links bring you theological books from the GoogleBooks collection. In many cases, when you click on one of these links you will NOT have the entire text of the book available to you.

Origin/Canon
Ellis, E. Earle. The Making of the New Testament Documents. Brill, 2002.

Epp, Eldon J. and Gordon D. Fee. Studies in the Theory and Method of New Testament Textual Criticism. Eerdmans, 1993.

Miller, John W. How the Bible Came to be: Exploring the Narrative and Message. Paulist, 2004.

Moule, C.F.D. The Birth of the New Testament. Third edition. Contiuum, 1981.

Patzia, Arthur G. The Making of the New Testament: Origin, Collection, Text & Canon. InterVarsity, 1995.

Trobisch, David. The First Edition of the New Testament. Oxford, 2000.
Theology/History
Achtemeier, Paul J. et al, eds. Introducing the New Testament: Its Literature and Theology. Eerdmans, 2001.

Aune, David E. The New Testament in its Literary Environment. James Clarke & Co., 1988.

Barnett, Paul. Jesus & the Rise of Early Christianity: A History of New Testament Times. InterVarsity Press, 2002.

Bauckham, Richard, ed. The Gospels for All Christians: Rethinking the Gospel Audiences. Eerdmans, 1997.

Branick, Vincent P. Understanding the New Testament and its Message: An Introduction. Paulist Press, 1998.

Brooke, George J. The Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament. Fortress, 2005.

Brown, Schuyler. The origins of Christianity: a historical introduction to the New Testament. 2nd revised ed. Oxford, 1993.

Bultmann, Rudolf. Theology of the New Testament. 2nd revised ed. Kendrick Grobel, trans. Baylor, 2007.

Burkett, Delbert R. An introduction to the New Testament and the origins of Christianity. Cambridge, 2002.

Caird, George B. New Testament Theology. L. D. Hurst, ed. Oxford, 1995.

Capes, David B., Rodney Reeves, and E. Randolph Richards, ed. Rediscovering Paul: An Introduction to His World, Letters and Theology. InterVarsity, 2007.

Cullmann, Oscar. The New Testament: An Introduction for the General Reader. Westminster John Knox, 1968.

DeSilva, David A. An Introduction to the New Testament: Contexts, Methods & Ministry Formation. InterVarsity, 2004.

Drane, John W. Introducing the New Testament. Revised edition. Fortress, 2001.

Dunn, James D. G. Jesus, Paul, and the Law: Studies in Mark and Galatians. Revised edtion. Westminster John Knox, 1990.

Dunn, James D.G. The Theology of Paul the Apostle. Eerdmans, 1998.

Efird, James M. The New Testament Writings: History, Literature, and Interpretation. Westminster John Knox, 1980.

Ellis, E. Earle. History and Interpretation in New Testament Perspective.

Esler, Philip F. New Testament Theology: Communion and Community. Fortress, 2005.

Esler, Philip F., ed. The Early Christian World. Vol. 1, Vol. 2. Taylor & Francis, 2000.

Evans, Craig A., and Stanley E. Porter, eds. New Testament Backgrounds: A Sheffield Reader. Continuum, 1997.

Ferguson, Everett. Backgrounds of Early Christianity. Third edition. Eerdmans, 2003.

Flemming, Dean E. Contextualization in the New Testament: Patterns for Theology and Mission. InterVarsity, 2005.

Fitzmyer, Joseph A. The Dead Sea Scrolls and Christian Origins. Eerdmans, 2000.

Freed, Edwin D. The Apostle Paul and his Letters. Equinox, 2005.

Gerhardsson, Birger. Memory and Manuscript: Oral Tradition and Written Transmission in Rabbinic Judaism and Early Christianity. Eerdmans, 1998

Gorman, Michael J. Apostle of the Crucified Lord: A Theological Introduction to Paul and His Letters. Eerdmans, 2004.

Green, Joel B. Hearing the New Testament: Strategies for Interpretation. Eerdmans, 1995.

Green, Joel B., Scot McKnight, I. Howard Marshall, eds. Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels: A Compendium of Contemporary Biblical Scholarship. InterVarsity, 1992.

Gundry, Robert H. A Survey of the New Testament. Fourth edition. Zondervan, 2003.

Haffner, Paul. New Testament Theology. Gracewing, 2008.

Harrison, Everett Falconer. Introduction to the New Testament. Revised edition. Eerdmans, 1971.

Hasel, Gerhard F. New Testament Theology: Basic Issues in the Current Debate. Eerdmans, 1978.

Horsley, Richard A., ed. Paul and Empire: Religion and Power in Roman Imperial Society. Continuum, 1997.

Jeffers, James S. The Greco-Roman World of the New Testament Era: Exploring the Background of Early Christianity. InterVarsity, 1999.

Johnson, Luke Timothy, and Todd C. Penner. The Writings of the New Testament: An Interpretation. Revised edition. Fortress, 2002).

Klijn, Albertus F.J. An Introduction to the New Testament. 2nd edition. Brill, 1980.

Kloppenborg, John S. The Formation of Q: Trajectories in Ancient Wisdom Collections. Continuum, 2000.

Ladd, George Eldon. A Theology of the New Testament. Revised edition. Eerdmans, 1993.

Malina, Bruce J. and Richard L. Rohrbaugh. Social-Science Commentary on the Synoptic Gospels. 2nd edition. Fortress, 2003.

Marrow, Stanley B. Paul: His Letters and His Theology : an Introduction to Paul`s Epistles. Paulist, 1986.

Marshall, I. Howard. New Testament Theology: Many Witnesses, One Gospel. InterVarsity, 2004.

Morris, Leon. New Testament Theology. Zondervan, 1990.

Nürnberger, Klaus. Theology of the Biblical Witness: An Evolutionary Approach. LIT, 2003.

Niswonger, Richard L. New Testament History. Zondervan, 1992.

Osiek, Carolyn, and David L. Balch, eds. Families in the New Testament World: Households and House Churches. Westminster John Knox, 1997.

Perkins, Pheme. Reading the New Testament: An Introduction. Second revised edition. Paulist, 1988.

Pregeant, Russell. Engaging the New Testament. Fortress, 1997.

Ramsay, William M. The Laymans` Guide to the New Testament. Westminster John Knox, 1980.

Reicke, Bo. The New Testament Era: The World of the Bible from 500 B.C. to A.D. 100. Fortress, 1974.

Reumann, John H.P. Variety and Unity in New Testament Thought. Oxford, 1991.

Richards, E. Randolph. Paul and First-Century Letter Writing: Secretaries, Composition and Collection. InterVarsity, 2004.

Sanders, E.P. The Tendencies of the Synoptic Tradition. Cambridge, 2006.

Sanders, E.P. Paul and Palestinian Judaism: A Comparison of Patterns of Religion. Fortress, 1977; Paul, the Law, and the Jewish People. Third edition. Fortress, 1990.

Schweitzer, A. The Quest of the Historical Jesus. Tr. W. Montgomery. A. & C. Black, 1911.

Soards, Marion L. The Apostle Paul: an introduction to his writings and teaching. Paulist, 1987.

Stambaugh, John E., and David L. Balch. The New Testament in Its Social Environment. Westminster John Knox, 1986.

Strecker, Georg. Theology of the New Testament. M. Eugene Boring, trans. De Gruyter, 2000.

Swartley, Willard M. Covenant of peace: the missing piece in New Testament theology and ethics. Eerdmans, 2006.

Talbert, Charles H. What is a Gospel?: the genre of the canonical Gospels. Mercer, 1985.

Taylor, Justin. Where Did Christianity Come From?. Liturgical, 2001.

Tenney, Merrill C. New Testament Survey. Second revised edition. Eerdmans, 1985.

Theissen, Gerd. The New Testament: History, Literature, Religion. John Bowden, trans. Continuum, 2003.

Travis, Stephen H. Getting to Know the New Testament. Clements, 2004.

Van der Watt, Jan Gabriël, ed. Identity, ethics, and ethos in the New Testament. De Gruyter, 2006.

VanderKam, James C. An introduction to early Judaism. 2nd edition. Eerdmans, 2001.

VanderKam, James C. and Peter Flint. Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Their Significance for Understanding the Bible, Judaism, Jesus, and Christianity. Continuum, 2005.

Via, Dan Otto. What is New Testament Theology?. Fortress, 2002.

Westerholm, Stephen. Perspectives Old and New on Paul: The “Lutheran” Paul and His Critics. Eerdmans, 2004.

Wilkins, Michael J., and J.P. Moreland, eds. Jesus Under Fire: Modern Scholarship Reinvents the Historical Jesus. Zondervan, 1996.

Witherington, Ben. Women in the Earliest Churches. Cambridge, 1991; Women in the Ministry of Jesus: A Study of Jesus` Attitudes to Women and Their Roles as Reflected in his Earthly Life. Cambridge, 1987.

Wright, N.T. Christian Origins and the Question of God, Vol. 1: The New Testament and the People of God. Fortress, 1992; Vol. 2: Jesus and the Victory of God. Fortress, 1996.

Online Journals

Church & Church Administration
Evangelism & Discipleship; Leadership
Music
Youth Ministry

Online Theological Resources

Bibles & Bible Commentaries
SingleVolume-Commentaries
Collegeville Bible Commentary: Based on the New American Bible. Robert J. Karris, Dianne Bergant, eds. Liturgical Press, 1992 (also copy 1 and copy 2).

IVP Bible Background Commentary: New Testament. Craig S. Keener, ed. InterVarsity, 1993.

IVP New Testament Commentaries — Online

Life Application New Testament Commentary. B.B. Barton, ed. Tyndale House, 2001.

Tyndale Concise Bible Commentary. R.B. Hughes and J.C. Laney, eds. Tyndale House, 2001.
NewTestament-Commentaries
Alford’s ‘New Testament for English Readers’ — The New Testament for English Readers: Containing the Authorized Version, with Marginal Corrections of Readings and Renderings, Marginal References, and a Critical and Explanatory Commentary, by Henry Alford, D.D., Dean of Canterbury (London: Rivingtons, 1866; 2nd ed. 1868): Matthew, Mark, Luke (1868, John, Acts (1863); Epistles of Paul (1865); Hebrews, Catholic Epistles, and Revelation (1866).

Ante-Nicene Fathers: e-Catena. By Peter Kirby. References to the New Testament culled from the writings of the Ante-Nicene Fathers—good for understanding how the text was interpreted in ancient times.

Barnes’ Notes on the New Testament. A conservative commentary on the New Testament by an American Presbyterian, Albert Barnes (1832).

Expository Notes. By Thomas L. Constable, Senior Professor of Bible Exposition at Dallas Theological Seminary. This contains .pdf files for each book of the Bible.

IVP New Testament Commentaries at Bible Gateway. A collection of brief and casual commentaries from a moderately conservative perspective, recently published by InterVarsity Press. Currently available online are: Matthew (Craig S. Keener); Luke (Darrell L. Bock); John (Rodney A. Whitacre); Acts (William J. Larkin); 2 Cor (Linda L. Belleville); Galatians (G. Walter Hansen); Philippians (Gordon D. Fee); Colossains (Robert W. Wall); 1 Tim (Philip H. Towner); Philemon (Robert W. Wall); Titus (Philip H. Towner); James (George M. Stulac); 1,2,3 John (Marianne Meye Thompson); and Revelation (J. Ramsey Michaels).

John Lightfoot’s Commentary on the New Testament from the Talmud and Hebraica. Notices many parallels in early Jewish writings that help to explain the New Testament.

John Wesley’s Notes on the Bible provide a concise commentary from an Arminian perspective, though the doctrines peculiar to Arminianism are not emphasized. The notes for the New Testament were originally published as part of Wesley’s New Testament.

New Testament commentary for English readers, by various writers, edited by Charles J. Ellicott, 3 vols. (London: Cassell, 1884): vol. 1 (Gospels); vol. 2 (Acts, Romans, Corinthians, Galatians); vol. 3 (Ephesians to Revelation).

The People’s New Testament. A commentary by the Disciples of Christ scholar Barton W. Johnson, first published in 1891. Contains Arminian interpretations, in line with the theology of the American “restoration movement,” but otherwise very helpful, with introductions and appendixes.

Word Studies in the New Testament by Marvin Vincent. A very useful resource for teachers. Vincent goes through the entire New Testament briefly noting interesting details about words and phrases. First published in 1886.
WholeBible-Commentaries
Calvin’s Commentaries. English translation of the famous reformer’s commentaries.

Matthew Henry’s Commentary. An excellent resource for traditional Protestant interpretation and application.

John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible.Especially helpful for theological exposition.

Classic Bible Commentaries, courtesy of E-Word Today. Includes commentaries of Gill, Jamieson-Faussett-Brown, John Lightfoot, Ben Johnson, Matthew Henry, McGarvey and Pendleton, and Luther (Galatians). Also the notes of Darby, Wesley, and the Geneva Bible.

Coffman’s Commentaries. Conservative and devotional commentary on the whole Bible by a Church of Christ scholar, James Burton Coffman.

Adam Clarke’s Commentaries. Conservative and Arminian in doctrinal view.
Lexicons
Liddell-Scott Jones Greek-English Lexicon. The University of California (Irving) has made available a new (free) online version of the Liddell-Scott-Jones Greek-English Lexicon (commonly abbreviated LSJ). The LSJ is *the* standard classical Greek lexicon, and it is extremely valuable to anyone studying the New Testament. Although online versions of the LSJ have been in existence for some time, this new electronic edition has a few major advantages. All of the lexicon entries have been broken down so that each word has its own entry (in the print edition, many sub-entry words were listed under a single head word entry, making navigation of the lexicon somewhat difficult). One can navigate to any of these Greek ‘headwords’ using the left menu, or by typing in the Latin alphabet equivalent of Greek letters in the search box (the Greek search text shows up in a pop-up below the search box as you type, so that you can see if you are typing the correct letters).
Fee-based
Logos. This commercial site offers online and CD-ROM based access to all versions of the Bible and hundreds of commentaries and Bible study and other Christian books. Subscription-based—not free.
Biblical Reference
BibleDictionaries
Bible Translation
Denominations and Ministries
Directories

For complete directories of all major denominational websites, use these directories:
USA Churches – directory of most denominational websites
Hartford Institute’s directory of denominations

Topography of faith
A map of the United States that shows a state-by-state statistical breakdown of adherents by religion

Bibliography of articles on denominations
A list of relevant articles concerning major denominations
Christian_Ministries

Below you’ll find links to some popular ministries.

For a complete directory of all major ministries and related organizations, see:
Hartford Institute’s Directory of Para-Church Organizations

Alpha Pregnancy Center
Focus on the Family
ICL’s Directory of Christian Organizations
ICL’s Directory of Christian Educational Institutions
Jesus Site: a directory of 170+ international Christian ministry websites
Jew for Jesus (help for witnessing to Jews)
Women of the Harvest (a website for female missionaries)
Wycliffe Bible Translators
Images
The Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative of the American Theological Library Association and Association of Theological Schools is a repository of digital resources contributed by member libraries. The creation of CDRI was made possible by a generous grant from the Henry Luce Foundation; it is now an ongoing program of the American Theological Library Association.

The CDRI database provides access to digital images of woodcuts, photographs, slides, papyri, coins, maps, postcards, manuscripts, lithographs, sermons, shape-note tune books, and various forms of Christian art, architecture, and iconography.

Maps of Bible Lands
Ancient_World
Ancient World Mapping Center
At the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, this center “exists to promote cartography and geographic information science as essential disciplines within the field of ancient studies”. Many useful, high resolution, well documented reproductions of maps from print resources in the AWMC Map Room including maps of the Expansion of the Empire in the Age of Augustus, Greece, the Aegean and Western Asia Minor and Roman Empire in AD 69.

Historical Maps of the Middle East
The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, The University of Texas at Austin: this comprises reproductions of many old maps.

Oriental Institute Map Series — Site Maps
Seven maps of the ancient near east (Egypt, Sudan, The Levant, Syria, Turkey, Iraq, and Iran), locating primary archaeological sites, modern cities, and river courses set against a plain background. They are located at the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute.

Atlases
Bible Geocoding (This uses GoogleEarth to locate every possible place that is mentioned in the Biblical text.)
Oxford Bible Atlas. (Adrian Curtis) pub. by Oxford, 2007.

Oxford Guide to People and Places of the Bible. (Bruce M. Metzger & Michael D. Coogan, eds. pub. by Oxford, 2004).

The Uttermost Part of the Earth: A Guide to Places in the Bible. (Losch, Richard R.) pub. by Eerdmans, 2005.

Israel_Jerusalem-Time_of_Christ
Communities of the Gospels (PBS site)

Historic Jesus: Maps
Collection of 17 color maps relevant to 1st Century Israel. Some of these maps are from older, out-of-copyright material; others are more recent. All are in color.

Land of Israel
By Mahlon Smith: an excellent, clear map with hyperlinks to information on the places it charts.

Palestine in the Time of Christ (B.W. Johnson)
Taken from The People’s New Testament of 1891.

Palestine in the time of Christ (HyperHistory online)

Palestine in the Time of Jesus
By K.C. Hanson: this web site (designed to accompany the book of the same name by Hanson and Douglas Oakman) features several old maps including Bethlehem and Nazareth.

Holy_Lands,_Israel_in_General
Bible Tutor: Biblical Places
A section in the Luther Seminary’s Bible Tutor: visit this site for simple but useful maps hyperlinked to more information on the place names they contain.

Jerusalem in Old Maps and Views
A useful site covering some of the same material as in the previous site from the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Jerusalem 3000: Celebrating Three Millennia of History
An interesting collection of different kinds of old maps of Jerusalem, real, imaginary and combinations of the two, located at the Osher Map Library, University of Southern Maine.
Jewish_Diaspora
Jewish Diaspora (PBS site)
Paul_the_Apostle
Paul: maps related to his life and ministry
Done by Nancy A Carter, this contains annotated color maps in different sizes of The Roman Empire, The Journeys of Paul, The Mediterranean World during the Time of Paul, and Greece.

Paul’s Missionary Journeys (B.W. Johnson)
Taken from The People’s New Testament of 1891.
Roman_Empire
Roman Empire
An interactive map of “the Roman Empire at its Greatest Extent” from the 1907 Atlas of Ancient and Classical Geography, adapted for the Internet by J. Vanderspoel.

Roman Empire
Part of Lacus Curtius, Bill Thayer’s web site on Roman antiquity (University of Chicago). Features several detailed maps made in the 19th Century, including Greece, Asia Minor and Syria.

Roman Empire (PBS site)

Roman Empire (HyperHistory online)
Spread_of_Christianity
Spread of Christianity (PBS site)

Spread of Christianity
Done by Glenn Davies, this was scanned and adapted from Lightfoot, Harmer & Holmes, and The Apostolic Fathers. Users can click on some points on the map to see more information.

Spread of Christianity Down to 180 AD
Adolf Von Harnack’s map, digitized by Jay Treat; you can view the whole or sections of it.
Theses and Dissertations
Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN)
Alibrary of over 10,000 theological thesis/dissertation titles representing research from as many as 70 different institutions. Titles may be downloaded for a reasonable fee, along with conference papers from Evangelical Theological Society, American Society of Church History, Society for Pentecostal Studies, North American Patristic Society, and the American Catholic Historical Association.

Research in Ministry (RIM)
A freely available database that indexes DMin. and DMiss. projects from reporting schools of theology accredited by the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada. Indexing began in 1981. Author, title, project advisor, institution, and subject access are provided. In addition, an abstract for each project is included when one has been provided by the author. The full text of the work is not available through RIM. If you need a copy of a thesis or dissertation, please e-mail the librarian and he will make every attempt to secure a copy.
Web Directories of Religion and Theology
Finding God in Cyberspace
This guide provides a selective listing of the best Internet resources of interest to religious studies scholars and students of religion. Rather than attempt a comprehensive listing of religious information on the Internet, this guide selectively points to the best gateways to specific types of religious information. This guide is especially designed to provide both novice and advanced Internet researchers with a helpful starting point for online religious research. The guide has its origins in a presentation given by Dr. John Gresham at a regional conference of Religious Studies Scholars in Dallas, Texas in 1994.

Internet Christian Library
A guide to online indexes related to Christian missions, Christian resources, Christian literature, and early church documents.

Research Guide for Christianity
A site maintained by Yale Divinity School Library. Resources organized by these subject areas: Bible, Church/Denominational/Ecumenical, Church History, Ethics and Social Issues, Missions & World Christianity, Systematic/Doctrinal theology, Practical Theology, and Religion and the Arts.

Virtual Religion Index
This site provides links that may be of interest to anyone doing advanced research in matters of religion. Site categories include Academic Sites, Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Archaeology & Religious Art, Buddhist Studies, Comparative Study of Religion, East Asian Studies, Ethics & Moral Values, Greco-Roman Studies, Islamic Studies, Philosophy & Theology, American Studies, Anthropology & Sociology, Biblical Studies, Christian Tradition, Confessional Agencies, Hindu Studies, Jewish Studies, and Psychology of Religion.

Wabash Center Guide to Internet Resources for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion
A selective, annotated guide to a wide variety of electronic resources of interest to those who are involved in the study and practice of religion: syllabi, electronic texts, electronic journals, web sites, bibliographies, liturgies, reference resources, software, etc. The purpose of the Guide is to encourage and facilitate the incorporation of electronic resources into teaching.

ACL LibGuide

Virtual Theological Library

Bryan College Library: Bible Study Resources

Other Online Resources

General
Copyright
The purpose of copyright law is to give protection, for a limited time, to authors of original works. Copyright law is also designed to promote science and the arts by facilitating the dissemination of knowledge. It is a complex area and defies easy explanation.

The sites listed below contain background information and detailed overviews of copyright law. You will learn a lot about copyright by spending some time at any of these excellent sites:

  • Copyright Basics
    An overview of general copyright information from the U.S. Copyright Office.
  • Copyright Office of IUPU
    An excellent site by the University Copyright Office of Indiana University and Purdue University.
  • Copyright Crash Course
    The Crash Course gives a general introduction to the topic and also covers common educational uses.
  • Questions & Answers on Copyright for the Campus Community Provides “an easy-to-understand guide for users of copyrighted material who need to solve practical problems in their daily lives.” Complementary to Campus Copyright Rights and Responsibilities: A Basic Guide to Policy Considerations (2006).
Christian Life & Growth
Preaching
Writing
Plagiarism
Definitions: Is it Plagiarism?

How to Avoid it: Safe Practices to Avoid Plagiarizing (from the OWL)

Writing Program Administrators statement on Plagiarism
This statement is an extremely thorough document which outlines the definition of plagiarism, good practices to use to avoid, and also the responsibilities of students and faculty in collegiate settings for dealing with the issues involved.