Useful Web Resources

Articles & Journals

ATLA Religion Database with ATLA Serials
This is a subscription based service provided by Trinity Theological College Library. Access is available to any member of the library. To obtain access, please contact the library.  ATLA Religion Index Database is an electronic index of over 1500 journals and other resources published since 1949. Access is also provided to ATLAS, the world’s largest available online repository of full-text journal articles, essays and books reviews from all fields of religious and theological scholarship. Subjects pertaining to all units taught at Trinity are covered by this database.
http://search.ebscohost.com

AULOTS  (Australian Union List of Serials in Theological Collections)
AULOTS is an alphabetical list of serial titles held within the library collections of the members of the Australian & New Zealand Theological Libraries Association. Each entry details the extent of holdings for each library. This is an essential resource if you wish to obtain journal articles via Inter-Library Loan.
http://www.anztla.org/Pages/publications.html#AULOTS

British Library Direct
Search for articles across 20,000 journals for free from this site and download full text quickly and easily using your credit card on a pay-per-item basis. Many journals that the Trinity library subscribes to are indexed by this service. We recommend you use the “Advanced Search” module.
http://direct.bl.uk/bld/Home.do

DOAJ : Directory of Open Access Journals
This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scholarly journals. There are now 2491 journals in the directory for a range of subjects and languages. There are 45 journals listed under Religion and 55 for Philosophy.
http://www.doaj.org/

FindArticles.com
FindArticles.com is a free online archive of published articles covering a wide variety of subjects. Commencing in 1998, it covers over 300 magazines and journals. It provides powerful search functionality, and results may be sorted by length or publication title.
http://www.findarticles.com/

Grace Online Library
A collection of articles and essays by eminent authors and theologians predominantly written from the historic Reformed, Calvinistic and Puritan persuasion, all in printer-friendly format.
Topics covered include Calvinism, Puritans, Church History, Preaching, Biographies, Charismatic Movement and Revivals, and Church and Family life.
http://www.graceonlinelibrary.org/

Oxford Journals Online
While full text access does cost, this website allows you to search the entire collection of Oxford University Press journals for articles you may require.
http://services.oxfordjournals.org/search.dtl

Religion and Philosophy Collection
This is a subscription based service provided by Trinity Theological College Library. Access is only available to students and staff of the College. To obtain access, please contact the library.
The Religion and Philosophy Collection is a comprehensive database covering such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. This database offers over 3000 full text journals, including more than 250 peer reviewed titles, making it an essential tool for researchers and students of theology. In addition to the full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for journals in the database.
http://search.ebscohost.com

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Biblical Studies

Ancient History Sourcebook
A collection of historical texts relating to the ancient civilisations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Persia, Israel, Greece, the Hellenistic World, Rome and late antiquity.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook.html

Bible History Online
Contains information on bible lands, ancient empires, weapons and warfare in bible times, archaeology, languages and timelines, including excellent maps.
http://bible-history.com/

Bibleplaces.com
BiblePlaces.com features photographs and descriptions of sites in Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Turkey and Greece with an emphasis on biblical archaeology, geography and history.
http://bibleplaces.com/

Biblical Studies Glossary
http://www.read-the-bible.org/glossary.html

The Bible - Christian Classics Ethereal Library
Provides access to 55 bible translations with accompanying commentaries and references. Includes the Apocrypha.
http://www.ccel.org/jsp/bcb/main.jsp

Biblical Studies on the Web
http://www.bsw.org

BiblicalStudies.org.uk
Provides bibliographies on every book of the Bible, its archaeology, historical background, themes and interpretation. Articles are included in each bibliography, and often provided in full-text.
http://www.biblicalstudies.org.uk/

The Dead Sea Scrolls
This site accompanied an exhibition held at the Library of Congress. Provides information about the meaning and significance of the Scrolls, and some full-text extracts.
http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/deadsea.scrolls.exhibit/intro.html

Dead Sea Scrolls
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~humm/Resources/Texts/dss.html

The Geneva Bible
The 1560/1599 version with original footnotes and corrected spellings.
http://www.genevabible.org/Geneva.html

Greek New Testament Editions
http://users.mstar2.net/broman/editions.html

Josephus : the Complete Works
Translation by William Whiston.
http://wesley.nnu.edu/biblical_studies/josephus/

New Testament Gateway
An excellent web directory of internet resources related to the New Testament.
http://www.ntgateway.com

Old Testament Gateway
A web directory of internet resources related to the Old Testament.
http://www.otgateway.com

The Online Theological Library
With special emphasis on tools for biblical interpretation covering textual criticism, historical context, and resources for biblical languages.
http://members.aol.com/dvdmoore/html/oltl.htm

Resources for Studying Greek
http://www.cranfordville.com/Gk-links.htm

Septuagint
To view this document properly, you need to have a Unicode font installed which has full polytonic Greek support. Please read introductory notes before using this resource.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/sep/index.htm

StudyLight
Provides scripture searches by keyword or verse in many translations, including Greek, with associated commentaries, concordances, dictionaries and devotional aids.
http://www.studylight.org/

Tanakh (Unicode Version of the Hebrew Bible)
This text is derived from the Westminster Leningrad Codex (WLC) of the Westminster Hebrew Institute. To view this properly, you need to have a Unicode font installed which has full Unicode Hebrew support. (eg MS Windows Hebrew Language)
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/tan/index.htm

Tyndale House Library
Gives access to Tyndale House Library Catalogue online, Tyndale online resources, free Bible software, free Biblical fonts, etc.
www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk/Tyndale?Doorway.html

Unicode Greek New Testament
This is a Unicode version of the Greek New Testament. To view this, you need to have a Unicode font installed. The text given here is that of the Nestle-Aland 26th/27th edition. Note that this version omits a few verses found in the KJV and other translations, e.g. Matthew 17:21. This is because of differences in the textual sources used to construct the transcription.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/gnt/index.htm

The Vulgate (the Bible in Latin, including the Apocrypha)
The Latin text presented here is based on the text of the 1598 Vulgate, which was used as the standard text of the Vulgate until 1979. It is derived from data files created by the Clementine Vulgate Project, which have been released into the public domain.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/vul/index.htm

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Church History

The Ancient Near East
Provides access to primary sources related to ancient Near Eastern religions, Hellenistic & Mediterranean religions, Gnosticism, Qumran community, early church controversies, Orthodox Christianity and Jewish history to 70AD.
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~humm/Resources/Texts/index.html

Bible and Church History at GodRules.Net
A small collection of 25 full-text primary and secondary titles relating to history of the new testament period, and Church history to the late 17th century. Authors include Philo, Josephus, Schaff, Gibbon, Hetherington, D’Aubigne, Wylie, Calvin and Knox.
http://www.godrules.net/history-index.html

The Catholic Encyclopedia
The online version of the 1914 Catholic Encyclopedia in which articles are organised by alphabetical index. An excellent resource for church history research.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/index.html

The Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
A collection of electronic resources for researchers working on major topics of the Reformation and Renaissance. The site provides primary and secondary materials for the English and continental Reformation and Counter-Reformation, as well as links to research societies, libraries and journals.
http://www.crrs.ca/library/webresources/webresources.htm

Church History Study Helps
An historical dictionary of key people, ideas, facts and issues from 356BC to 1564AD.
http://www.theologywebsite.com/history/

The Council of Trent
Full text access to the canons and decrees of the Council of Trent, as edited and translated by J Waterworth in 1848.
http://history.hanover.edu/early/trent/trent.htm

Documents of the Reformation
A great, easy-to-navigate collection of primary documents for such key figures as Luther, Melanchthon, Calvin, Zwingli, Bullinger, Schwenkenfelder and for the Scottish and Counter Reformations.
http://www.mun.ca./rels/reform

Early Church Fathers
Full text online of: The Anti-Nicene Fathers, The Nicene and Post–Nicene Fathers.
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/

http://www.ccel.org/fathers.html

EarlyChurch.org.uk
An collection of subject bibliographies on the events and people in church history up to the rise of the medieval papacy. Each subject bibliography includes articles, most of which are full-text.
http://www.earlychurch.org.uk/

The Ecole Initiative
This site provides access to primary and secondary documents to ca 1500 and an encyclopaedia of early church history.
http://www2.evansville.edu/ecoleweb

The Enlightenment
A huge collection of resources compiled by an American high school teacher. The site provides information on the art, literature, sciences, and philosophical and political theory, including some key works in full-text. eg. Locke, Newton, Kant, Kepler, Hobbes, Burke, Adam Smith, Descartes, Diderot and Rousseau.
http://www.teacheroz.com/Enlightenment.htm

EuroDocs : Online (Primary) Sources for European History
Contains primary documents relating to Western European history that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated. They shed light on key historical happenings within particular countries and within the broadest sense of political, economic, social and cultural history. The order of documents is chronological wherever possible. These open access sources are freely available.
http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Main_Page

Foxe’s Book of Martyrs
The complete text written by John Foxe (1517 – 1587), edited by William Byron Forbush.
http://www.ccel.org/ccel/foxe/martyrs/files/martyrs.html

Guides to Early Church Documents
Includes canonical documents, creeds, the writings of the Apostolic Fathers and other historical texts.
http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/christian-history.html

History @ The Internet Christian Library
Contains canonical documents, creeds, the writings of the Apostolic Fathers and other historical texts relevant to church history.
http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/christian-history.html

History Subject Guides
A collection of web resources organized by historical periods. This site is provided by the library of Trinity Divinity School in US.
http://wvvw.tiu.edu/library/subjectguides/history/index.html

The Lollard Society : Helpful Websites
A collection of websites, online journals, bibliographies, full-text primary sources and much more, dedicated to Wyclif, Lollardy and late Medieval English society.
http://lollardsociety.org/etcsites.html

MedievalChurch.org.uk
Provides subject bibliographies on people, topics and events in church history from the rise of the papacy to the early Reformation.
http://www.medievalchurch.org.uk/

Medieval Sourcebook
An in depth collection of primary sources organised chronologically. Periods covered include Byzantium, the Roman Church, the Rise of Islam, Carolingians, Crusades, Holy Roman Empire & Papacy, Renaissance and early Reformation.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook1c.html

Modern History Sourcebook
More primary sources for Modern history of Europe, America and Africa. Particularly strong in the period from the late eighteenth century to the modern day, topics covered include Absolutism, Liberalism, the Enlightenment, Industrialisation, Imperialism, the rise of the nation state, and key themes in 20th century history.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook02.html

netSERF
A collection of resources dedicated to medieval history, society, politics and religion.
http://www.netserf.org/

ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
An academic site, written and maintained by medieval historians, containing short article and links to other web resources relating to European and Mediterranean history from the late Roman Empire to 1300AD.
http://www.the-orb.net/

Sources in American History
A fantastic collection of primary and secondary resources relating to the founding and development of the America Colonies, the War of Independence and the creation of the American nation. The site also contains excellent material pertaining to Puritanism and the English Civil War.
http://home.wi.rr.com/rickgardiner/primarysources.htm

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Ethics

CACE Homepage
The official webpage of the Centre of Applied Christian Ethics, based at Ridley College in Melbourne. The site contains various articles, comments and resources dealing with a large range of current ethical issues.
http://www.ridley.unimelb.edu.au/cace/

Ethics Articles
Provides free access to full-text articles and essays on Christian ethics from the Reformed perspective.
http://www.reformed.org/ethics/index.html

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Libraries

Western Australia

Curtin University
http://library.curtin.edu.au

Edith Cowan University
http://www.ecu.edu.au/library

Murdoch University
http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au

Perth Bible College
http://library.pbc.wa.edu.au

University of Notre Dame
http://library.nd.edu.au/home

University of Western Australia
http://www.library.uwa.edu.au

Vose Seminary
http://www.vose.wa.edu.au/view/library

Australia

Australian College of Theology BookSearch
http://ww.act.org.au/resources_booksearch.php

Australian Lutheran College, Adelaide

http://www.alc.edu.au/library/

Bible College of Victoria

http://www.bcv.vic.edu.au/Library/LibraryInfo.aspx

Dalton McCaughey Library, Melbourne

http://www.dml.vic.edu.au/

Libraries Australia

http://librariesaustralia.nla.gov.au/apps/kss

Moore College, Sydney

http://www.library.moore.edu.au/

Morling College, Sydney

http://www.morling.nsw.edu.au/library/

National Library of Australia

http://www.nla.gov.au

Presbyterian Theological Centre, Sydney

http://www.ptcsydney.org/library/

Sydney Missionary Bible College

http://www.smbc.com.au/pages/default.asp

Ridley College, Melbourne

http://library.ridley.edu.au

International

The British Library

The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and one of the world’s greatest libraries. One copy of every publication produced in the UK and Ireland is added to its collections, including theses and research papers. It provides the world’s largest document delivery service to people throughout the world.
http://www.bl.uk/

Library of Congress
The Library of Congress serves as the research arm of the US Congress. Originally formed from Thomas Jefferson’s private library of 6000 books, it has become the largest library in the world, with more than 130 million items on approximately 530 miles of bookshelves. The collection may be searched via the Catalogue.
http://www.loc.gov/homepage/lchp.html

UK Higher Education and Research Libraries
An index of over 150 British academic and research libraries websites, maintained by the University of Exeter Library.
http://www.library.ex.ac.uk/internet/uklibs.html

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Ministry and Mission

Anglican Church League
The ACL is an association of evangelical Australian Anglican Christians who desire to maintain the reformed, protestant and evangelical character of the Anglican Church. The site provides lots of practical articles on evangelism, prayer, liturgical resources and women’s ministries. The 39 Articles of Religion (1562) are provided in full-text.
http://www.acl.asn.au

Mission Research Resources
A collection of useful links and research aids provided by Global Missions International in the USA.
http://www.gmi.org/research/index.htm

Mission Resource Directory
An index of websites, periodicals, mission organizations and geographical information for missionaries and missiologists.
http://www.mrd.org/

Presbyterian Church of Australia
Provides access to church contacts, ministry resources, confessions, committee and state websites and even a 'jobs board' for ministry opportunities around Australia.
http://www.presbyterian.org.au/

World Evangelical Alliance Mission E-Books
An online repository of full-text e-books and WEA documents dedicated to cross-cultural missions. All items are ready to download, but be careful, some are very big files!
http://www.wearesources.org/publications.aspx

ICLnet Guide to Christian Missions on the Internet
Provides an extensive directory of websites related to missions and evangelism. Resources are listed by subject heading, geographical focus, collected works, guides to mission research and detailed listing of periodicals online. Some US bias.
http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/christian-missions.html

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Reference Materials

Australian Dictionary of Biography Online
A collection of over 10,000 scholarly biographies of significant people in Australian history.
http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/adbonline.htm

Librarians’ Internet Index
A directory of reviewed web sites covering a wide range of subjects.
http://www.lii.org/

Roget’s II : The New Thesaurus
3^rd edition, 1995.  Containing 35,000 synonyms and over 250,000 cross-references in an easy-to-use format, this thesaurus features succinct word definitions and an innovative hyperlinked category index.
http://www.bartleby.com/62/

YourDictionary.com
The most comprehensive language portal on the web with more than 2500 dictionaries, thesauri and grammars in over 300 languages, subject glossaries and acronyms.
http://yourdictionary.com/

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Theology and Theologians

Anglicans Online
An international directory of Anglican resources. Some good links to Anglican news and current affairs, theology and history are provided.
http://anglicansonline.org/resources/index.html

Calvinism Resources Database
A bibliographical index of articles, essays, book reviews and lectures dealing with John Calvin and Calvinism from 16th century to the present. http://www.calvin.edu/library/database/card/

Christian Classics Ethereal Library
One of the internet’s largest collections of theological works all fully searchable by author, title, keyword or subject. eg. Calvin’s commentaries. The site also provides access to 55 bible translations with commentaries, a glossary of terms, concordance and theology discussion forums.
http://www.ccel.org/

Classics of Reformed Theology
http://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/articles/classicarticles.html

Creeds of Christendom
A full-text collection of confessions, creeds and statements of faith from most denominations throughout history.
http://www.creeds.net/

CRTA – Centre for Reformed Theology and Apologetics
A great collection of primary materials, articles, essays and books on every aspect of Reformed Theology and Calvinism. If you can’t find something here of use, you better ask the library staff for assistance!
http://www.reformed.org/

Dictionary of Theology
There are 384 entries in the list that includes Christian, and New Age terms.
http://www.carm.org/dictionary.htm

Eschatology
http://www.reformed.org/eschaton/index.html

Fides Quaerens Internetum
The Christian Theology Page is “a hub for locating serious Christian theological activity on the Internet”, developed by Brian Stone at the School of Theology, Boston University.
http://people.bu.edu/bpstone/theology/theology.html

Fire and Ice: Puritan and Reformed Writings
This is probably the best collection of resources on the Puritans available on the internet! Biographies, history, theological and devotional works, poetry and literature, and even a Puritan IQ test for evangelical couch potatoes! The site is predominantly organised by author.
http://www.puritansermons.com/index.htm

Grace Online Library
Christian articles and resources from a Reformed or Puritan perspective on subjects like Calvinism, Dispensationalism, Election, and the Christian Home.
http://www.graceonlinelibrary.org/

GodRules.Net
This site will provide access to selected work of Augustine, Aquinas, Arminius, Wesley, Owen, Finney, Calvin, Melanchthon and others. Calvin’s Institutes, Aquinas’ Summa Theologica and Augustine’s Enchiridion are provided in full-text. The site also contains devotional, bible and pastoral resources, commentaries, dictionaries and creeds.
http://www.godrules.net/library/wesley/wesley.htm

Philosophy.org.uk
A good introductory guide to western philosophy since the Enlightenment. No primary sources are provided.
http://www.philosophy.org.uk

Project Wittenberg
Project Wittenberg is home to works by and about Martin Luther and other Lutherans. Here you will find all manner of texts from short quotations to commentaries, hymns to statements of faith, theological treatises to biographies, and links to other websites related to Lutheran history.
http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/wittenberg/wittenberg-home.html

Puritan Biographies & Resources
http://www.apuritansmind.com/

Reform
Reform is a network of conservative evangelical churches and individuals within the Church of England, committed to the reform of the global Anglican Church and the world by the gospel. The site contains useful links to publications, articles and papers, organizations and online communities representing Reformed Evangelical Anglicans worldwide.
http://www.reform.org.uk/

Religion Online
Retired Yale Divinity School professor, William F. Fore, compiled this collection of more than 1,800 full-text English-language articles, chapters, speeches, essays and monographs by recognised religious scholars. Topics include Old and New Testament, Theology, Ethics, History and Sociology of Religions, Comparative Religion, Pastoral Care, Counselling, Homiletics, Worship, Missions and Religious Education. The site contains both public-domain and copyrighted works. The goal of this resource is to "… [present] many different points of view, but all written from the perspective of sound scholarship."
http://www.religion-online.org/

The Reformed Reader
A site committed to the historic Baptist and Reformed faith. It provides sermons, devotional material, articles and documents about Anabaptist and Baptist history, church discipline, confessions and Calvinism.
http://www.reformedreader.org/

ReformationINK
A full-text collection of works by key Reformed theologians such as Calvin, Owen, Spurgeon, Erskine Berkhof, Boettner and Gresham Machen.
http://homepage.mac.com/shanerosenthal/reformationink/classic.htm

The Spurgeon Archive
The largest collection of materials by and about Charles Spurgeon on the web.
http://www.spurgeon.org/mainpage.htm

TheologicalStudies.org.uk
Provides subject bibliographies on a range of theologies and theologians, doctrines, philosophies and applied theology. Each bibliography contains selected full text articles. A sample of study aids is also provided.
http://www.theologicalstudies.org.uk/

Wabash Center Guide to Internet Resources in Theology and Religion
A selective annotated guide to electronic resources for teaching and learning in Theology and Religion.
http://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/internet/front.htm

Wesleyan Theology
http://wesley.nnu.edu/wesleyan_theology/index.htm

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Theses & Dissertations

Australasian Digital Theses Program
The aim of the ADT program is to provide a web accessible database of digital versions of theses produced by postgraduate research students at Australian universities. The ethos behind the program is to provide access to, and promote, Australian research to the international community.
http://adt.caul.edu.au/

British Library Thesis Service
The British Thesis Service gives you access to the full text of more than 170,000 doctoral theses, mainly from the 1970's to the present day. The British Library also offers a limited thesis search service, covering 1980 to date. Almost all UK universities make their theses available through the Service. Full-text supply of documents is fee-based.
http://www.bl.uk/britishthesis/

Index to Theses (UK)
A comprehensive listing of theses with abstracts accepted for higher degrees by universities in Great Britain and Ireland since 1716. As at October 2006, there were 491,658 theses in the collection. Electronic Access is subscription based, but some subscribing universities may make database access available to researchers for a one-off fee. The print copy is available at UWA Reid Library.
http://www.theses.com/

PhD Data
This site contains a database of doctoral dissertations in progress worldwide. It is an open academic community project, so is not comprehensive.
http://www.phddata.org/

Project Canterbury
A project whereby Anglican scholars worldwide may contribute their theses or dissertations for open public access via the internet.
http://anglicanhistory.org/academic/

RIM Online - Research In Ministry
A free, searchable database listing Doctor of Ministry dissertations from theological school affiliated with ATLA in the United States and Canada. Indexing began in 1981. Author, title, project advisor, institution, and subject access are provided. In addition, an abstract for each project is included when one has been provided by the author.
http://rim.atla.com/star/rimonline_login.htm

TREN - Theological Research Exchange Network
The Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) is a library of over 10,000 theological thesis/dissertation titles representing research from approximately 70 academic institutions. Titles may be searched and purchased online on a pay-by-item basis. Conference papers for the annual meetings of several academic societies are also available eg ETS.
http://www.tren.com/