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Throughout the ages, God has blessed His Church with faithful pastors and teachers, scholars and sages, artists and musicians, authors and translators, historians and exegetes. The treasury of the Church, built by these faithful people is very broad and very deep. Students of theology, old and new, often do not know where to begin to search for the insight they need to grow as pastors and teachers of the Word. But a pastor cannot be content to know the treasures of the Church alone. He must also know the culture and people to whom he is called to proclaim the Gospel. He must also consult works from a variety of disciplines to do this. The tutorials and guides in this section have been prepared to help you conduct research in theology and its related disciplines. They are designed to help you work with research using textual resources, computer resources, audio resources and video resources. It is our prayer that they will teach you how to bring out of God's storehouse things both old and new. -- Walther Library Staff
Confessional Lutherans believe that the Lutheran Confessions, or the documents
contained in the Book of Concord (1580) faithfully teach the doctrines of the Holy
Scriptures. Lutheran pastors pledge to teach in harmony with them because they so believe.
The Walther Library uses a local variant of the Library of Congress Classification System
to arrange versions of these confessions and materials which explain their contents and
background. This guide will help you locate such materials in our collection.
"A paper will be due..." the prof says
matter-of-factly. But where do you begin? The tutorials and guides at this site will give
you a head start on that most challenging part of academic life -- the research paper.
Bristling with helpful tips and step-by-step guides to reading, writing and listening, the
site can be an enormous help in dealing with this and other tasks. As if this site were
not enough, it even has links to other valuable sites. Read! Mark! Learn! Inwardly digest!
Short answers to questions often asked at the Reference Desk of the
Walther Library.
"Can I copy this item without permission?" This
is a question librarians are often asked. The answer is always yes when the work is in the
Public Domain. This chart by Dr. Laura Gasaway lists the criteria by which you may be sure
that a work belongs to everyone and is no longer protected by copyright. Yes, Bible Works is a powerful program, but can it really
help you do exegesis? You suspect so, but don't have a clue as to where to start. The
Librarians of Yale Divinity School have written a tutorial to help you get started with
this powerful tool. This click-by-click, one page guide to Bible Works will teach you how
to view texts, read the Greek and Hebrew originals, do basic and advanced searches and
print the results. This guide is a great place to visit before you dive into the program. So you've got a paper to write on the history of missions
in Africa. Yet you do not have a clue where to start. This site, provided by the Yale
University Divinity School Library is a great place to start. Pages with lists of
mission-related subject headings (These work in our catalog and most other U.S. Libraries,
too.), bibliographies, journals and online resources will help you begin your quest. This
site is a great place to launch any quest to read about God's mission to seek and save the
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