Online Portal to Holdings and Information Resources
Ophir was the port through which ancient Israel imported a great wealth of resources.
Hogue Library
E-books
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
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.
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.
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
Online Journals
Bible and Interpretation
Bible Translation Resources
Biblica
Catholic Biblical Quarterly
Journal for the Study of the New Testament
Journal for the Study of the Old Testament
Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha
Journal of Biblical Literature
Journal of Biblical Studies
Journal of Textual Reasoning
Review of Biblical Literature
SBL: Seminar Papers
TC: A Journal of Textual Criticism
Antithesis
Christian Century
Christian Ethics Today
Christian Reflections (Baylor U.)
Christian Research Journal
Christian Scholar’s Review
Christianity Today
Church & State
Citizen [Focus on the Family] Commentary
Cross Currents
First Things
Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory
Journal of Biblical Ethics in Medicine
Journal of Church and State
Journal of Men, Masculinities, and Sexuality
Journal of Religion and Film
Journal of Religion and Popular Culture
Journal of Religion and Society
Journal of Religion and Theatre
Journal of Southern Religion
Review of Faith & International Affairs
WORLD
Anglican Journal
Anglican and Episcopal History
Anglican Theological Review
Baptist History and Heritage
Canadian Journal of Orthodox Christianity
Catholic Biblical Quarterly
Direction: A Mennonite Brethren Forum
Founders Journal
Journal for Baptist Theology and Ministry
Mennonite Life
Mennonite Quarterly Review
Methodist Review
Presbyterian Record
Protestant Reformed Theological Journal
Quaker Theology
Semper Reformanda – (Lutheran Reformation)
Southern Baptist Journal of Theology
Stone-Campbell Journal
Studies in Reformed Theology
Wesleyan Theological Journal
Discipleship Journal (ceased publication at issue 171)
Inner Resources for Leaders
Journal of Biblical Perspectives in Leadership
Leadership
Xenos Online Journal
Hinduism Today
Jewish Studies
Journal for the Study of Religions And Ideologies
Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies
Journal of Philosophy and Scripture
Journal of Religion
Mythological Studies Journal
Online Journal of Christian Theology and Philosophy
Philosophy Today
Religions
Studia Judaica
Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations
Women in Judaism
American Theological Inquiry
Australian E-Journal of Theology
Biblical Theology Bulletin
Chinese Theological Review
Christian Apologetics Journal
Concordia Theological Quarterly
Conservative Theological Journal
Foundations – A Journal of Evangelical Theology
Japanese Journal of Religious Studies
Journal for Christian Theological Research
Journal of Ecumenical Studies
Journal of Theology for Southern Africa
Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society
Kairos : Evangelical Journal of Theology
Modern Reformation
Online Journal of Christian Theology and Philosophy
Perspectives: a Journal of Reformed Thought
Religious Studies Reviews
Southern Baptist Journal of Theology
Studies in Reformed Theology
Theologia
Theological News
Theological Studies
Theology Today
Touchstone – a Journal of Mere Christianity
Wesleyan Theological Journal
Westminster Theological Journal
Online Theological Resources
Bible Gateway’s dictionary
Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible
Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary
Holman Illustrated Pocket Bible Dictionary
Mercer Dictionary of the Bible (Watson E. Mills, et al., eds.)
King James Dictionary
Smith’s Bible Dictionary: More than 4,500 subjects and proper names are defined and analyzed with corresponding Scripture references.
Tyndale Bible Dictionary (W.A. Elwell, P.W. Comfort, eds.)
At BibleStudyTools
Basic Dictionary of Bible People ( Julien Chilcott-Monk, ed.)
Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible (K. van der Toorn, et al., eds.)
Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels (Joel B. Green, et al. eds.)
New Testament Words (William Barclay)
Oxford Guide to People and Places of the Bible. (Bruce M. Metzger, Michael D. Coogan, eds.)
Oxford Handbook of Biblical Studies (John William Rogerson, Judith Lieu, eds.)
Oxford History of the Biblical World (M.D. Coogan, ed.)
Pocket Dictionary of Biblical Studies (A.G. Patzia and A.J. Petrotta, eds.
Saint Mary`s Press Essential Bible Dictionary. (S. O`Connell-Roussell et al. eds.)
Westminster Dictionary of New Testament and Early Christian Literature and Rhetoric
Westminster Theological Wordbook of the Bible (Donald E. Gowan, ed.)
Who`s Who in the New Testament (Ronald Brownrigg, ed.)
Women in Scripture: A Dictionary of Named and Unnamed Women in the Hebrew Bible
For complete directories of all major denominational websites, use these directories:
USA Churches – directory of most denominational websites
Hartford Institute’s directory of denominations
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
Anglican Church in North America
Anglican Communion (central worldwide site)
Episcopal Church in the USA
National Churches (weblinks to all of them worldwide) Baptist
American Baptist
Reformed Baptist
Southern Baptist Convention Catholic
Vatican official site Charismatic & Pentecostal
Assemblies of God
Church of God in Christ
International Pentecostal Holiness Church Churches of Christ
United Church of Christ Lutheran
Evangelical Lutheran
Lutheran Church Missouri Synod Mennonite Methodist
Korean-American Ministry
United Methodist Orthodox
Antiochian Archdiocese of North America
Coptic Orthodox Church Network
Greek Archdiocese of America
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA Presbyterian
Evangelical Presbyterian
Orthodox Presbyterian
Presbyterian Church in America
Presbyterian Church – USA Quaker (Friends) Reformed Church in America Wesleyan
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
Center for Reformed Theology & Apologetics: Historic Creeds
Creeds of Christendom
Hall of Church History
Internet Sacred Text Archive
For a complete compilation of the creeds of most denominations, go to:
bible-researcher.com
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.
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
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.
- Paralegal Guide: Crash Course in Copyright
Online Paralegal Resources.
- 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).
Acronyms
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Almanacs
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Atlases
National Atlas
Calendars
Earth Calendar
Dictionaries
Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Baker’s Evangelical Dictionary
Onelook.com
Dictionary.com
Encyclopedias (general)
Encyclopedia.com
Quotations
Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations
Thesauri
Thesaurus
Translators
Translator
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Writing
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See Bible Sprout.
BCNE Overview
BCNE Process
Plant New England
Emmanuel Gospel Center
Church Planting in Vermont:
Green Mountain Baptist Association
Vermont Church Planting
Articles on Church Planting:
Lyandon Warren on methods
The great need
Methods
Southern Baptist Convention expansion in New England
Southern Baptists Expand Northward
American Fact Finder
Bennington city data
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Bennington 2010 Census data
Bennington History
Revolutionary Day
Virtual Vermont
Bennington Museum
Famous People from Bennington County
Robert Frost Poet
Grandma Moses Folk Artist
Dorothy Canfield Fisher Author
Norman Rockwell Illustrator
Vermont:
Quick Census Facts
Vermont Population Breakdown
Vermont Children Statistics
Chester Baptist Church (Chester, VT)
Liberal religion in Vermont
Richard Boles collection of New England Church history
by state:
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Baptist History in Massachusetts
Haystack Prayer Meeting in Williamstown
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Turabian Online
Ohio State University guide to Turabian style
OWL guide to Chicago Style (close to Turabian)
Citation Machine (automatic citation generator)
eTurabian
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.