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This section contains links to historical and secondary open access e-text collections.
SEE ALSO: Sacred Texts and Images (illuminated manuscripts and papyri)
Christianity - Digital Text Collections
General Christianity
- Christian Classics Ethereal Library - includes author/title/subject index and covers a wide range of authors from St. Augustine To G.K. Chesterton and John Donne
- Christian Works from the Cambridge Digitial Library- biblical manuscripts and liturgical texts covering over 1,000 years
- Church in the Southern Black Community - "The Church in the Southern Black Community" collects autobiographies, biographies, church documents, sermons, histories, encyclopedias, and other published materials. These texts present a collected history of the way Southern African Americans experienced and transformed Protestant Christianity into the central institution of community life. Coverage begins with white churches' conversion efforts, especially in the post-Revolutionary period, and depicts the tensions and contradictions between the egalitarian potential of evangelical Christianity and the realities of slavery. It focuses, through slave narratives and observations by other African American authors, on how the black community adapted evangelical Christianity, making it a metaphor for freedom, community, and personal survival." - includes Guide to Religious Content in Slave Narrative and list of images by subject
- Coptic Scriptorium - various Coptic texts, dictionaries and other tools
- Day Missions Collection of annual reports for a variety of Mission Bodies and groups
- Documents on Christian-Jewish relations (Center for Christian-Jewish Learning) - Includes inter-religious, Roman Catholic, Protestant and Jewish works
- Gifford Lectures - list of lectures and links to full text for many of them available through Internet Archive
- GlobeTheoLib (Global Digital Library on Theology and Ecumenism) and GlobeEthics Lib - extensive digitial library of books and journals on "theology, intercultural and interreligious dialogue, ethics and ecumenism in World Christianity
- Goussen Library Collection - specialized library for oriental church history - digitized texts in "oriental languages such as Syrian, Coptic, Ethiopian, Arabic, Armenian and Georgian languages from the 16th to the 20th century (the focus is on the 18th and the 19th century)." - comprehensive index to hymns and hymnals
- History of Missiology Collection (Boston University School of Theology)
- Internet Medieval Sourcebook: Roman Church , Crusades, Papacy, Medieval Church
- ISR Reports (Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion)
- Jewish-Christian Relations Background resources on Christian-Jewish relations - official statements, historic documents, educational resources, essays - includes a collection of texts on Jewish understanding of non-Jews and a biographical dictionary of Jesuits of Jewish ancestry
- Jewish-Christian Relations: Insights and Issues in the ongoing Jewish-Christian Dialogue
- Monumenta Germaniae Historica - Primary sources for the study of German history covering Holy Roman Empire, Benedictines, Bollandistes, Catholic Church, Benedictines, Cistercians
- Parker Library on the Web - extensive digital collection of Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts
- Post-Reformation Digital Library - extensive collection of texts for Zwingli and many others - " collection of resources relating to the development of theology during the Post-Reformation / Early Modern era (ca. 16th-18th c."
- Puritan Library
- Restoration Movement Texts
- Sermon Online - can search by title, biblical passage, keyword and author
- Theological Collections (hosted by American Theological Library Association) - 80 digital collections from a variety of Theological libraries- includes manuscripts, texts, images, postcards etc.
- Theological Commons (Princeton Theological Seminary) - over 120,0000 books, journals, photographs, manuscripts etc.
Early Church
- Apostolic Fathers (Lightfoot)
- Augustine - texts from Christian Classics Etherial Library
- e-Catena - Allusions to the New Testament in the Anti-Nicene Fathers - permits researchers to locate where in the writings of the early church fathers you will find citations to biblical passages. Links to full text from Christian Classics Ethereal Library
- Church Fathers (New Advent)
- Church Fathers (Bibliothek der Kirchenväter)- selection of patristic works in English, French and German translation.
- ClassicsIndex - Collection of works on early Judaism and Christianity
- Digital Syriac Corpus
- Early Christian Writings - New Testament, Apocrypha, Gnostics, Church Fathers etc. Large collection of writings in English
- Early Church Fathers (Christian Classics Ethereal Library)-the majority of texts from the 38 volumes collection, texts are divided into three sections, Ante-Nicene and Nicence and Post-Nicene Fathers. Can key word search the entire collection.
- Early Church Fathers (additional texts) - including Polycarp, Hermias, Eusebius, Gregory of Nyssa, Ananias of Shirak etc.
- Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Christian Origins - links to texts and other resources for Dead Sea Scrolls, Gnostic Texts, Nag Hammadi Library, Early Church etc.
- Patristic Fathers links to English and Greek texts for works of Patrologia Latina and Patrologia Graeca
- Syriac Studies Reference Library - can keyword search or browse the collection by Ancient Author or Councils, Dictionaries, Grammar, Hagiography, Liturgy etc.
- The Syriac Library - links to following texts in Syriac - New Testament, Eusebius of Caesarea's Encomium on the martyrs and On the Star, Joshua the Stylite's Chronicle, Thomas of Edessa's De nativitate and De epiphania (on chapter titles) .
- Tertullian Project
Adventist
- Adventist Digital Library - images, books etc.
- ASTR - Seventh-day Adventists' Office of Archives, Statistics and Research - Online Archives
Anabaptist
- Bibliotheca Digital Anabautista - Spanish theological works
Anglican/Episcopal
- Anglican Communion Document Library - Anglican Communion Office, Anglican Consultative Council resolutions, Lambeth Conference etc.
- Book of Common Prayer - full-text of many difference editions / Common Worship
- Primate's Theological Commission (Anglican Church of Canada) - St. Michael Report (2004) -Blessing of Same-Sex Unions, The Galilee Report (2009)
- Project Canterbury - free archive of out-of-print Anglican works
Catholic
- Catholic Portal to research resources (Books, archival material, pamphlets etc) can limit search to full text. Also provides access to the Catholic News Archive
- Catholic Culture Library - encyclicals, writings of the Church Fathers, articles and commentaries
- Corpus Thomisticum - complete works of Thomas Aquinas as well as index, dictionary and bibliography
- Dorothy Day
- Digital Catholica Collection - books, journals papers and manuscripts
- Digital Vatican Library - eventually over 80,000 codices will be digitized
- Documenta Catholica Omnia
- Federation of Asian Bishops Conference Papers and documents
- Franciscan Archive
- Jesuit Historiography Online - "over 70 historiographical essays written by experts in their field....authors explore trends in Jesuit historiography"
- Jesuit relations and allied documents: 1610-1792 -"This site contains the entire English translation of the The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, originally compiled and edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites and published by The Burrows Brothers Company, Cleveland, throughout the latter part of the nineteenth century. Each file represents the total English contents of a single published volume."
- Loyola University Chicago Digital Special Collections
- II Vatican Council Documents - from the Vatican site
- II Vatican Council - documents with a full-text search engine from www.stjoseph.at
- II Vatican Council documents from Intratext.com
- Vatican Web Site
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
- BYU Masters Theses on Mormonism - see also rest of BYU digital collections
- Mormon Texts - " books, missionary tracts, doctrinal treatises, hymnals and periodicals which helped define the doctrinal development and historical movements of the Mormon people in the 19th century." - from BYU digital collections
Doukhobors
- Simon Fraser University Library Doukhobor Collection - over 600 manuscripts, photographs , books, articles, document and interviews dealing with the Doukhobors in Canada are available online.
Lutheran
- Project Wittenberg - works by and about Martin Luther
- Post Reformation Digital Library - Lutheran authors
Methodist
- American Methodism Project - digitized texts
- Wesley Center Online - texts of John and Charles as well as the Holiness Tradition, John Fletcher etc.
Pentecostal
- Global Pentecostalism - articles, documents and links from the European Research Network on Global Pentecostalism
- Pentecostal and Charismatic Research Archive (USC Libraries) - limit your search results to the Pentecostal and Charismatic Research Archive - digital archive of primary historical materials - correspondence, organizational records, tracts, sermons, diaries, photographs, oral histories - from different regions of the world"
Presbyterian
- Presbyterian Historical Society Digital Collection - photographs, maps, documents, oral histories etc.
- Reformed Presbyterian History Archive - journals, synod minutes, pamphlets and other documents
Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
- Digital Quaker Collection - "DQC is a digital library containing full text and page images of over 500 individual Quaker works from the 17th and 18th centuries." (Earlham School of Religion)
Shakers
Stone-Campbell Movement
- Stone-Campbell Resources (Abilene Christian University) - primary resources ( books, journals, pamphlets, photographs, sermons etc.)
Syriac Christianity
- Digital Syriac Corpus
- Manuscripts in the Libraries of he Greek and Armenian Patriarchates in Jerusalem
- Syriac Studies Reference Library - can keyword search or browse the collection by Ancient Author or Councils, Dictionaries, Grammar, Hagiography, Liturgy etc.
- The Syriac Library - links to following texts in Syriac - New Testament, Eusebius of Caesarea's Encomium on the martyrs and On the Star, Joshua the Stylite's Chronicle, Thomas of Edessa's De nativitate and De epiphania (on chapter titles)
See also Digital Collections - Early Church
Swedenborgian
- Emanuel Swedenborg Writings
- Swedenborg Texts from Internet Sacred Texts Archive
Unitarian Universalist
- Holocaust Rescue and Relief - Digitized Records of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (Andover-Harvard Theological Library)
- Unitarian Universalism - Meadville Lombard Theological School Library has significant digital archival holdings for Unitarian Universalism
United Church
- United Church of Canada Bibliography of Scholarly works - see also bibliography of original documents, reports, studies and papers related to Diaconal Ministry in the United Church of Canada
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