Library Links

Librarian's Web Picks Beyond the Library

Please note:  these sites have been compiled for the benefit of the library users of the Theological Seminary.  Inclusion on this list does not imply endorsement or verification for accuracy. 

Catalogues

• Google Book Search
• Amicus: Holdings of Canadian Libraries
• Open WorldCat:  Find Books Around the World and Near You

Full Text Theological and Religious Studies Journals and Books Available on the Internet

• Journal of Pastoral Care & Counseling (Accessible within Theological Seminary only)
• Princeton's Theological Commons - more than 50,000 books on theology and religion
• Religious Studies Web Guide
• Theological Journals Search
• Worldcat OIAster-OAIster includes more than 25 million records representing digital resources from more than 1,100 contributors.

Indices

• ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials -- Requires Authentication 
• Christian Study Library -  Reformed articles, some full-text from Clarion, Christian Renewal,
• Bildi - Biblical Literature Index from University of Innsbruck
• Index to Calvin Theological Journal, Outlook, and numerous CRC publications.
•  Index theologicus (IxTheo)  -- 630 international theological journals are indexed and updated nightly! This index is very current and indexes material since 1984.
• Infotrac Religion and Philosophy Collection -- some full-text articles included; courtesy of Knowledge Ontario

Bible Tools

•  Blue Letter Bible -- 14 searchable versions of the Bible, commentaries, lexicons, charts, timelines and over 2700 hymns linked to Bible passages

Dictionaries/Encyclopedias

•  Baker's Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology -- edited by Walter A. Elwell, 1996.
•  International Standard Bible Encyclopedia -- 1915 edition

Church History

• Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts
• Heidelberg Catechism - History, editions, sermons, etc.,  sponsored by CRTS
• Heidelberg Catechism, History, Sources & Literature--Faculty of Divinity, Leiden
• John Calvin's Works
• Luther Collection
• Medieval Sourcebook
• Migne’s Patrologia Graeca and Latina
• Post-Reformation Digital Library:  includes thousands of documents from many authors, including John Calvin
• Reformation and Revolt in the Low Countries:  Documents and Sources
• Reformational Publishing Program: Digitization Project including works by Dooyeweerd, Kuyper, Schilder, Veldkamp, etc. 
• Zwingliana -- including full-text journal

Church Polity

• Acts of CRCNA
• Reformed Church Polity--A Dutch site, but with international church orders

Dead Sea Scrolls & Early Manuscripts

•  Codex Sinaiticus
•  Digital Dead Sea Scrolls
•  Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature

Ethics

• Ethics in Brief from the Kirby Laing Institute for Christian Ethics
• Globethics.net Global Digital Ethics Library

Geography of the Bible

•  Bible Geocoding
• Online Bible Atlas using Google Maps

Language Tools

• 2LetterLookup -- Tyndale House's Lexicon Lookup Tool
• Institute of Biblical Greek
• Online Liddell-Scott-Jones Greek-English Lexicon

Liturgics

• Book of Praise: Proposed Revised Text of the Anglo-Genevan Psalter
• Calvin Institute of Christian Worship
• Digitized Hymn Resources
• Hymnary.org - index of 5,155 hymnals & 1,098,769 published hymns, with scores, media, etc.

New Testament Studies and Tools

• Classical Studies on the Web - more of a classics site, but has some really useful Greek language and history of early Christianity sites.
• e-Catena: Compiled Allusions to the NT in the Ante-Nicene Fathers
• New Testament Gateway
  

Religion - Comparative and World

• ARDA - Association of Religion Data Archives