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Even in modern times, when everything in analyzed in great detail, where niche marketing reigns, when Yahoo! contains thousands if not millions of catagories, not everything can be catagorized. Even in a well-organized discipline such as theology, there are resources that cross the lines of the classic fourfold division of Exegetical, Systematic, Historical and Pastoral Theology. To make matters worse, Theology, Queen of all Arts and Sciences, occaisonally turns to her court for assistance. Works in a number of non-theological disciplines assist the Church and the pastors God sends to her. Like the owner of the house in Christ's parable, pastors bring forth out of their treasury things old and new. The links on this page lead to general resources and to sites that support other disciplines.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. -- Walther Library Staff The Ad Hoc Digital Library was initiated during the 1997/1998 academic year with the support of a Faculty Support Project grant from the Yale University Library and Yale Information Technology Services. It is a structured, annotated, web-searchable database that contains electronic images and texts related to the history of Christianity. Because of copyright restrictions, some of the images and texts contained in the database are not accessible to the general public. What do American Catholics believe? How many Americans claim to be Lutheran? Where do American Muslims live? A source of reliable, scientifically gathered data on these and similar questions used to be very difficult to find. The American Religion Data Archive, a project supported by the Lilly Endowment, gathers togethers such studies and makes them accessible on the World Wide Web. This site is very well designed, with easy navigation and powerful search tools. It is sure to become a standard resource in years to come. Dr. Dana Sutton, Professor of Classics at the University of California in Irvine has recently begun compiling this rich resource, "an analytic bibliography of Latin texts written during the Renaissance and later freely available to the general public on the Web (access-restricted sites are not included)."1 Here you will find a descriptive catalog of the original latin texts of Luther and other Lutheran writers, a link to the resource and a description of its file format. Ad fontes, amici! Argus is an electronic bibliography of bibliographies. Before you quip: "A resource only a librarian would love," visit the site. Here you can find links to resource guides arranged by subject. It isn't the usual haphazard collection of sites gathered by search engine and pasted on the page. These guides are evaluated by librarians for how well they describe the resources they list. This is a great place to start looking for websites when you don't have a clue where to find it. This thorough list of reference works, compiled by the American Theological Library Association, lists works which can help you either find the information you seek or discover where to search for it. Some of the items contain brief reviews of the works. Requires frames capable browser. The Christian Classics Ethereal Library is a treasure trove of the finest devotional material written by Christians from the days of the Early Church to the Twentieth Century. Most of the works are public domain texts and are available in multiple formats. Looking for just that turn of the phrase to bring home a point in your sermon? You think in KJV, but still can't fish out that key Bible passage for your eager parishoners? Then this resource is for you. Concordances of Great Books provides a search engine to each of over two hundred titles, most of which are classics of world literature. The majority of the works are from spiritually-oriented texts. It is highly ecclectic -- Augustine and Josephus are alongside the Book of Mormon and the Bhagavad-Gita. Yet there are many texts that you would read for edification and apologetic purposes. No, Luther texts are not in the collection -- yet! Still, all and all, a powerful resource that will draw you back time and again. 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. Now you can shop for your Christian books and supplies from the comforts of home. CPH's catalog web site is well-designed, easily navagated and sports a solid search engine. A shopping cart feature allows you to collect items to order. You may pay for the order with a major credit card. However, the site does not use secured server technology. Still, the ability to browse for materials from the Lutheran prospective makes this site well worth the visit. From Hinduism to Islam, from Judaism to the Watchtower society, religions have taken to the internet to support believers and to present their faith to others. Christianity is no exception. Nearly every denomination, sect or tradition has a website. How do you decide which websites will help you study theology and learn to witness to those ready to hear the gospel? This site by librarian John Gresham provides "a selective listing of the best Internet resources of interest to religious studies scholars and students of religion." Here you will find a wide variety of links to sites that provide the best information available on the internet. Begin your search of the web at this site. Do you need to study a resolution of last year's convention? Do you need the minutes of the convention for a paper? If so, one of the fastest ways is to check the online version of the official Convention Workbook. Warning: The document is in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. If you do not already have the free reader on your system, you will need to download it. Get the Acrobat Plug-in. The LCMS Handbook contains the constitution and by-laws of the church body. When you need to know the rules by which this Synod, its Districts, Congregations, Church Workers and staff relate to each other, this is the work to check. Warning: The document is in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. If you do not already have the free reader on your system, you will need to download it. Get the Acrobat Plug-in. Wouldn't it be great if libraries were online. Not just resources, but whole libraries? The Internet Public Library, a project of the University of Michigan's School of Information (Library School), is an experiment in providing full library service online. Visit here not only to find online resources, but if you'd like to ask a question. This annotated guide to theological resources on the Internet is a gateway to many resources useful to students of theology. Developed by a Catholic University for its community, this well-stocked list provides a wealth of resources which might be hard to find in any other way. Confessional Lutherans will find especially interesting the rich, well-stocked page on liturgical resources. An excellent place to look for specialized information, especially on topics related to the Early Church, Medieval Church and the Roman Catholic Church. The IUPUI Copyright Management Center assists the students of Indiana University Purdue University -- Indianapolis both with managing their copyrights and in using copyrighted works. Their web site contains many helpful papers that can assist you in learning about copyrights. As a bonus, the site contains links to other useful web-based resources. 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 astonding #151; try Gaelic, Bulgarian and Vietnamese! Visit this site and you'll never be lost for words again! Making of America is a unique collection of electronic texts. It contains images and text for 4000+ books, published from 1800-1925. Selected from the University of Michigan's storage area, these works are chosen to reflect the shaping of American society in the 19th Century. The collection is naturally heavy on literature, but includes a few suprises: S. S. Schmucker's books, the works of Ellen G. White, founder of Seventh Day Adventism, a congregationalist work: Foreign missions: their relations and claims and many others. A powerful search engine allows you to search the full text of the whole collection. You can also browse through the titles and use its flexible navagation tools to skim through each volume. Think of the On-Line Books Page as a bibliography of texts on the Internet. With well over 10,000 listings, this is the place for you to begin a search for electronic books. This directory points only to texts that you may read free of charge and focuses on public domain texts. Project Gutenberg is the mother of all electronic text archives. Begun in 1971 with the Declaration of Independence, this library is dedicated to making "information, books and other materials available to the general public in forms a vast majority of the computers, programs and people can easily read, use, quote, and search." 3 Think of Project Gutenberg as an online electronic public library. This text archive collects texts by and about Martin Luther and other Lutherans. Project Wittenberg is sponsored by Concordia Theological Seminary and sited at CTS' website. This Project is the first step towards an online, electronic library for Lutheranism. The texts first appear at this site and in ASCII format. To view HTML versions of some of the documents, see Project Wittenberg's home page. A database from one of the leading publishers of Seminary and Divinity School theses and dissertations, this search engine allows you to locate some of the best research and writing done in the disciplines of theology and religious studies. Prior to the convening of a convention of the Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod, committees appointed by the Synodical President gather to compose resolutions for the gathering to consider. These are published in the first issue of Today's Business To discover what actions will be discussed this summer, view this document. Warning: The document is in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. If you do not already have the free reader on your system, you will need to download it. Get the Acrobat Plug-in. Teeming with texts, syllabi and resources, the Wabash
Center Guide to Internet Resources .. provides reviews of and pointers to a wide
variety of tools for the teacher and student of religion. From the pages of this guide,
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