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Walther Library
O T H E R S E R V I C E S /
C T S T H E O L O G I C A L
W E B O G R A P H Y
"Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink!," said Coleridge's
ancient Mariner. The Internet is filled with images, information and
tools. Yet when all you want is a specific piece of information, something
on a historical figure you've run across, a definition or just an
authoritative paragraph or two, you could spend the whole day looking
for it. In a physical library, you'd head for the reference section. On
the WWW, you find an online work you can trust and come back again and
again.
The links on this page lead to these resources.They are
designed to help you find your way to the wisdom and
knowledge you seek. Please note that most of the sites
listed here are not maintained by members of the
Lutheran Church -- Missouri Synod. The theology,
opinions and philosophies of pages beyond the CTS
website are those of their creators and not necessarily
those of the Walther Library, Concordia Theological
Seminary or the Lutheran Church -- Missouri Synod.
Should you still be unable to find what you're
looking for, do not hesitate to consult our reference
staff.
Encyclopedias and Other Reference Works
Yes — this work is in German! And, Yes — if you do not read
German, you will still be able to use it! Simply put, this work contains
both a thorough biography in German (The part you can't use if you can't
read German) and thorough bibliography, which includes references to
titles in English and other languages. This useful work classifies the
items into categories such as works about the subject and works by the
subject. Where materials exist online, it gives the URL for the resource
as well. All-in-all, a very useful site.
You're serving your first parish. As you prepare for your
first few August worship services, you notice in Lutheran Worship the day of
St. Lawrence falls on a Sunday. "St. Lawrence?" you exclaim, "Who is St.
Lawrence?" In your moment of minor crisis, this resource, provided by the folks at
Catholic Online can help you get started. This online directory of saints provides short,
one page biographies of saints in the Catholic Church, many of whom are remembered by even
Lutheran Christians as fathers and mothers in the faith. It also has a FAQ on the Catholic
view of angels. A search engine helps you find one in the many pages available at the
site. The information here is, of course, from the Catholic perspective and tends to be
long on folklore. Still, it provides a place to learn a few details about these faithful
Christians. From there you can decide if detailed historical study might add some images
and illustrations to Bible classes, sermons and Sunday School gatherings.
You're planning to go home for Easter next year, but
you don't know the date on which it will fall. Walther dates a letter you're hoping to quote in your paper as
the Fourth Sunday after Trinity. But you do not have a calender for 1863 at your fingertips. How can you figure
these things out? This handy, simple calculator will help you out. Enter the year that you need to consult and
very quickly the calculator returns to you the dates of all the major feasts for that year. You even can check
dates for two Eastern Orthodox calendars. Kairos kai kronos!, this tool is handy!
It's out of print, so I can make a copy of this textbook
without asking permission. Right? Wrong! I can show this video I rented to my youth group.
Right? Wrong again! Copyright law protects both. As long as a work is copyrighted, you
cannot copy it without permission. As long as a movie is copyrighted, you cannot show it
publicly without permission. Copyright law is very confusing and complex. So why not visit
the Copyright site and learn more about it. This site is dedicated to helping its visitors
work out the practical details of how you use the works of others and protect your own. It
explores contemporary controversies, provides primers and forms and generally provides a
lot of information and tools to help you use all the wonderful resources now at your
fingertips.
The ECOLE Initiative is the place on the Internet to begin
your research into the history of the Church before the Reformation. The site contains
articles by philosophers, theologians and historians. A detailed time line helps you place
people, events and ideas in chronological context. A massive, online bibliography of
primary sources leads you to texts and images from this period of the Church's history.
Directories of email discussion groups and web sites help you discover new treasures. If
you are taking classes in the history of the Church, this is a place you must visit.
You've just settled your library on the oak shelves of your study at
your first parish, when you learn that the daughter of a member is into
Eckankar. But you didn't study Eckankar in religious bodies class at
the seminary! So, how do you learn about them — quickly!?! Well,
you might reach for Mather and Nichols' Dictionary of Cults, Sects,
Religions and the Occult, if you had thought to buy it before
you left! Gospelcomm's Apologetics Index is there to help
you! This site contains a wealth of news, articles, links and other
information on religious cults, sects, movements, doctrines, new and
alternative religions. The information compiled here is well-researched,
complete with quotations from authorities within the group described
and within the Christian apologetic and missions communities. There
is both a search engine and an alphabetic approach for easy navigation.
This site is a good place to begin your search for ways to witness to
religious non-Christians.
This encyclopedia contains articles on philosophers and
issues treated by philosophers, principally the General Editor, James Fieser, Ph.D., and
the philosophy of science and logic editor Bradley Dowden, Ph.D. In addition to scholarly
articles, a text archive provides access to a sizable collection of important
philosophical treatises. This site makes an excellent starting point for students
researching philosophical, ethical and theological topics.
So, you need to look up that Latin term in your systematics
reading for tomorrow. Of course, you discover this AFTER the library closes! What you need
is a dictionary — and fast! LEO comes to the rescue with links to online multi-lingual
dictionaries. The variety in this directory is astounding — try Gaelic, Bulgarian and
Vietnamese! Visit this site and you'll never be lost for words again!
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