Theology

A reference work on the history of ecumenism within Christianity.

The Acta Sanctorum are a principal source of research into the societies and cultures of early Christian and medieval Europe, published over a period of three hundred years by the Socit Des Bollandistes. This resource brings together materials on the lives of the saints from the beginning of the Christian era to the end of the sixteenth century. A new cross-searchable facility is available which allows users to find entries on search terms and texts that are included in both Acta Sanctorum Database and Patrologia Latina Database in one search. An additional resource, Brill's edition of Jan Frederik Niermeyer's Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, has also been made available. It provides easy reference to this essential resource of Medieval Latin studies and is not available in any other electronic format.

An index to 1500 periodicals, essay collections, book reviews, and conference proceedings in Classical Studies. Subjects covered include ancient Greek and Latin language and linguistics, Greek and Roman history, literature, philosophy, art, archaeology, religion, mythology, music, science, early Christian texts, numismatics, papyrology, and epigraphy.

A full-text database of the corpus of Latin literature produced in Celtic-speaking Europe from the period 400-1200 C.E. Contains texts from important authors such as St. Patrick, Augustinus Hibernicus, Columbanus, Sedulius Scottus, John Scottus Eriugena, Peter Abelard.

The American Theological Library Association (ATLA) Historical Monographs Collection consists of two Series that contain more than 29,000 titles focused on religion and theology. In its entirety, the collection is estimated to contain over 10 million pages, representing a core collection for colleges and universities with programs in history, theology, religion, sociology, political science and other disciplines. Series 1 consists of titles from the 13th Century through 1893.

An index for finding essays, book reviews, and journal articles in all disciplines related to theological and religious studies. Coverage is international in scope and now includes access to over 50 full text journals via linked citations. Includes the contents of the Catholic Periodical and Literature Index published after 1980.

The BAR Digital Collection, the world’s largest collection of academic archaeology, was launched in 2020 and encompasses all periods from prehistory, through classical archaeology, to 20th century archaeology. Includes titles published 1974 through 2023.

The Bible in English contains twenty versions of the Bible. In addition to the twelve complete Bibles, there are five New Testament works, two Gospel works and William Tyndale's New Testament, Pentateuch and Jonah translations.

The BTL Online database provides electronic access to all editions of Latin texts published in the Bibliotheca Teubneriana, ranging from antiquity and late antiquity to medieval and neo-Latin texts. Each year, the database is extended by the texts of the newly printed Latin editions of the Bibliotheca Teubneriana.

A bibliography of all aspects of the European Middle Ages including theology and philosophy.

Brill publishes stand-alone reference works (encyclopedias, dictionaries, bibliographies, reference libraries, etc.) and world renowned series covering various cultural and religious studies subjects such as:
• African, Asian, Jewish, Middle Eastern, and Islamic Studies
• Biblical, Classical, Literary, and Religious Studies
• History, International Relations, Linguistics, Law, and Philosophy
BC affiliates can use and search the full text. Users can also set up individual accounts to mark up and make notes.

Cambridge Collections Online offers subject or theme based collections of content. At present, there are two collections comprising the Cambridge Companions in Literature and Classics and the Cambridge Companions in Philosophy, Religion and Culture. Each collection is updated with new Companions on publication and are cross-searchable.

Full text of over 300 volumes published since the 1960's.

This collection of premodern gazetteers provides access to historic documentation of the culture, population, geography, events, and history of regions and places in China from the Qin Dynasty to the early 20th century. There are many ways to search the content including by region or time period. To access the collection, choose Ancient Classics and click login. Next, choose the collection 中國方志庫 and then confirm you have read the collection welcome page using the lower left hand key. NOTE: This collection is limited to one user at a time. Please logout once you are finished to allow another user to gain access.

中國方志庫是專門收錄歷代地方誌類典籍的全文檢索版大型古籍數據庫。 這本前現代地名錄集提供了從秦朝到 20 世紀初中國地區和地方的文化、人口、地理、事件和歷史的歷史文獻。有多種搜索內容的方法，包括按地區或時間段搜索。要訪問該數據庫，請選擇Ancient Classics並單擊log in。接下來，選擇收藏中國方志庫，然後使用左下鍵確認您已閱讀收藏歡迎頁面。注：此數據庫一次僅限一個用戶使用。完成後請註銷以允許其他用戶訪問。

A digital library containing high-resolution photographs of the Dead Sea Scroll fragments, along with the biblical and non-biblical texts in the original language and in translation. The Brill Text Tool, a Chrome browser extension, can be used with this library to offer grammatical information on the biblical Hebrew.

The online DHGE is an unparalleled source of information for anyone interested in the history of the Church. It comprises more than 70,000 articles dealing with people, places and institutions.

The database features the entire corpus of Barth's Gesamtausgabe. Published under the TVZ imprint, this definitive edition of Barth's works in German currently comprises 42 volumes of theological writings, lectures, letters, sermons, and interviews. As additional print volumes of the Gesamtausgabe become available, they will be added to Alexander Street's The Digital Karl Barth Library. Also included is Barth's magnum opus, the 14-volume Kirchliche Dogmatik.

A collection of 1,500 works from the Reformation and post-Reformation eras in mostly 16th and 17th century editions. Works include the theological writings of more than 300 Protestant authors, as well as a wide range of confessional documents, biblical commentaries, polemical treatises, and Bible translations. In addition to the usual search categories (author, title, keyword), researchers can limit searches to specific theological topics, social/cultural topics, theological tradition, place of publication, publisher, and document type.

Transcriptions and facsimiles of documents, including papal and synodal decrees, catechisms and inquisitorial manuals, biblical commentaries, theological treatises and systems, liturgical writings, saints' lives, and devotional works by Catholic authors of the 16th and 17th centuries.

Open access archive combining the INIST's databases Francis (primarily Humanities and Social Sciences) and Pascal (Science, Technology and Medicine).

Here is the ultimate online critical text edition of Gregory of Nyssa's works based on all available known manuscripts, introduced with a complete discussion of the textual transmission and accompanied by extensive annotations on the biblical, classical and patristic sources, and indices.

The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament Online.

This database contains English and German versions of the same resource: History of Global Christianity and Geschichte des globalen Christentums Online. It includes articles discussing the global development of Christianity over the past five centuries, with attention given to its various involvements with culture.

A collection of materials from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries related to the study of religion in Latin America. The contents, which includes over 3,000 monographs and 500 periodicals scanned from microform, were originally collected by the CIDOC Library in Cuernavaca, Mexico, and contain items from other libraries throughout Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, and Chile.

Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective is an index to articles from nearly 1,200 English-language periodicals, including many of the most important scholarly journals of the 20th century. More than 1,300,000 articles and 240,000 book reviews are included.

Index Islamicus is a multidisciplinary index of the literature of Islam and the Muslim world. It includes records of journal articles, books, chapters of books, conference proceedings, monographs, multi-authored works and book reviews covering the accounting, archaeology, arts, bibliography & scholarship, economics, education, geography, history, law, literature, natural & applied sciences, philosophy, politics, religion, social sciences, theology, travel and zoology of the Islamic world and the Islamic diaspora in the West.

A selective bibliography of articles in the various fields of Jewish studies and in the study of Eretz Israel. Material listed in Rambi is compiled from thousands of periodicals and from collections of articles - in Hebrew, Yiddish, and European languages- mainly from the holdings of the Jewish National and University Library. RAMBI Web Catalog - Unicode Edition contains the entire Rambi database (1966 - present) and uses a Unicode-based interface to facilitate display and entry of Hebrew characters.

A reference bibliography for academic publications in Theology, Religious Studies and Church History. Initial information was drawn from the bibliography of the Revue dhistoire ecclsiastique and the Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses.

Based on the extensive theology collection of the Tübingen University Library, this free database includes international coverage of journals and festschriften in Theology and Religious Studies.

The Index to Jewish Periodicals provides citations to articles, book reviews, feature stories, and other contents in English, appearing in periodicals devoted to Jewish culture and history.

Based upon the most important encyclopaedia in the world for medievalists, LexMA's signed articles written by 3,000 authors cover all aspects of medieval studies within the period 300 to 1500.

Over seventy historiographical essays addressing a multitude of topical and geographical approaches to Jesuit history, providing "summaries of key texts from the earlier literature, painstaking surveys of more recent work, and digests of archival and online resources." An open access resource, JHO is supported by the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College.

An open access resource, this comprehensive online bibliography covers books, book chapters, journal articles and book reviews pertaining to the exponentially growing field of Jesuit Studies. In addition to basic bibliographic information, entries include abstracts, detailed subject headings, direct links to items available in electronic format where available, and a link to an items WorldCat entry.

A collection of scholarly books and journals across disciplines. The journal archive includes back issues and some current issues.

The King James or 'Authorized' edition of the Bible (1611) was the standard edition of the Bible for nearly three centuries, drawing heavily on previous editions and providing the principal influence for many subsequent versions. This fully searchable online version presents the full text (of the He' version) with all introductory matter, annotation, calendars, genealogies and tables.

This full text database contains Latin texts from the beginning of Latin literature (Livius Andronicus, 240 BC) through to the texts of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965). It covers all the works from the classical period, the most important patristic works, an extensive corpus of Medieval Latin literature as well as works of recentior latinitas. The texts have been taken from the Corpus Christianorum series and from other leading editions. Series A and Series B are meant to complement one another. The Cross Database Searchtool (listed next to LLT) allows searching Series A and B together.

This resource is an interconnected, fully searchable library of over 500 volumes of Latin and Greek texts and their accompanying English translations including epic and lyric poetry; tragedy and comedy; history, travel, philosophy, and oratory; the great medical writers and mathematicians; and those Church Fathers who made particular use of pagan culture.

The Weimar Edition in electronic form. The Weimar Edition, which is regarded as a monumental work in the field of theology and the German language, was first published in 1883 and includes 112 volumes in 117 sections. Limited to 3 simultaneous users.

This database provides direct access to a wide collection of original medieval manuscripts that describe travel - real and imaginary - in the Middle Ages. These sources tell us much about the attitudes and preconceptions of people across Europe in the medieval period, shedding light on issues of race, economics, trade, militarism, politics, literature and science. The project combines: a) Multiple manuscript sources detailing the journeys of famous travelers from Prester John and Marco Polo to Sir John Mandeville and John Capgrave; b)Translations and supporting materials (all of which are fully searchable); c) Maps showing the routes of the travelers; d) Introductory essays by leading scholars.

MECAS is a bibliographic index of research, policy and scholarly discourse on the countries and peoples of the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa. 1900-current.

The present selection embraces virtually the entire spectrum of Maimonides literary output. The sources collected here include the newly digitized original Unparalleled Editions collection of 290 microfiches containing 58 titles which are mostly Hebrew printed editions as well as imprints from the 16th up to and including the 20th century and examples of bilingual editions containing Hebrew and either Latin, Judeo-German, or French text. Added to the original collection from the British Library are further incunabula which expand and enhance access to this important leaders life work.

A database containing books, articles, reviews, and book chapters on the Nag Hammadi Library, contributing to the study of Gnosticism and early Christianity.

New Testament Abstracts Online is a product of a partnership between ATLA and the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry. The database offers citations and abstracts of journal articles, book reviews, books, and software.

Old Testament Abstracts features indexing and abstracts for journal articles, monographs, multi-author works, and software related to Old Testament studies. Topics covered include antiquities, archaeology, biblical theology, philology and more.

The database includes the Bible and its principal commentaries, the Talmud Bavli and Talmud Yerushalmi with commentaries, Midrash, Zohar, Halachic Law (Rambam, Shulchan Aruch with commentaries), a large Responsa collection of questions and answers ('Shut' in Hebrew), the Talmudic Encyclopedia etc.

Oxford Handbooks offers an authoritative survey of current thinking and research. Specially commissioned essays from leading international figures in the discipline give critical examination of the progress and direction of debates, providing scholars and graduate students with compelling new perspectives. Major subject areas include:

- Arts and Humanities
- Economics
- Law
- Literature
- Medicine and Health
- Philosophy
- Politics
- Religion
- Science and Mathematics
- Social Sciences

Working with international communities of scholars across all fields of study, OUP is developing collections of in-depth, peer-reviewed summaries on an ever-growing range of topics. BC Libraries has access to the following subject areas:
-African History
-American History
-Asian History
-International Studies
-Latin American History
-Linguistics
-Literature
-Oxford Classical Dictionary
-Politics
-Religion
-Social work

Past Masters provides online access to authoritative editions of the works of seminal figures in the history of philosophy, political thought, religious studies, sociology, the history of science, economics, and classics.

The Patrologia Latina contains 221 volumes and represents a complete electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina (1844-1855 and 1862-1865).

A database of the Patrologia Orientalis series of patristic texts from the Christian East, containing the original version and a searchable translation.

The most comprehensive collection of Greek patristic material relevant to the study of the history of the Christian Church from its beginnings through the Council of Florence in 1439. Though many of the works covered in the series have been published more recently in various critical editions, Patrologi Grc remains the only published source for much of the material. This web version of the Patrologi Grc is composed of digitized page images of the Migne edition. The print PG's tables of contents and index, long considered insufficient and unreliable, have been replaced with comprehensive electronic versions. Although full-text searching is not available, metadata searching (including such items as patristic writers and titles of works in Latin and English) is possible.

A digital library containing major works of the earliest Christian theologians from the late biblical and patristic periods.

A digital library of historical spiritual writings by Christian, Jewish, and Islamic thinkers.

This database contains 76 volumes of historical texts of spiritual writings from medieval Christian, Jewish, and Islamic thinkers.

Each literature collection has been developed with its own specialist editorial board to advise on the selection of texts and editions. Collections available to BC includes:
- THE BIBLE IN ENGLISH (990-1970)
- EDITIONS AND ADAPTATIONS OF SHAKESPEARE
- THE W.B. YEATS COLLECTION

Religion Past and Present (RPP) is a complete, updated English translation of the 4th edition of the highly respected 13 volume encyclopedia of religions, Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart (RGG). Interdisciplinary articles cover a wide range of topics from history, archaeology, liturgy, law, bible, music, visual arts, politics, social sciences, natural sciences, ethics, and philosophy.

A database published by the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, specializing in ethics, history, pastoral life, social movements and liberation theology in Latin America. Indexed and searchable in Spanish.

A project of the Harvard Law Schools Program in Islamic Law, Sharia Source provides a growing library of primary sources for Islamic law (historical texts, legislative and court records, and fatwas or documents). It uses data science and artificial intelligence to build useful and accessible digital humanities tools, and to facilitate research and analysis.

Siku Quanshu, 四庫著錄書 or Complete Library in Four Branches of Literature from the Erudition online collection allows for full text search and downloading of this important text of Chinese history, politics, economics, and geography. It was compiled by scholars between 1773-1782 by edict of the Qing emperor. To access the collection, choose Ancient Classics and click login. Next, choose the collection and then confirm you have read the collection welcome page using the lower left hand key. NOTE: This collection is limited to one user at a time. BC offers access to the base collection only and does not have access to the catalog or added texts. Please logout once you are finished to allow another user to gain access.

四庫系列數據庫是圍繞清修《四庫全書》匯輯歷代典籍的全文檢索,數據庫提供下載中國歷史、政治、經濟和地理的重要文本，在線收藏允許全文搜索和
四庫系列數據庫共收錄歷代典籍9000種，採用宋元明清民國及外國各級善本，計宋本33個、元本34個、明本2712個、清本2699個、文淵閣四庫本3458個、民國本52個、外國本（和刻本、高麗本）12個。要訪問該數據庫，請選擇Ancient Classics並單擊log in。接下來，選擇收藏中國方志庫，然後使用左下鍵確認您已閱讀收藏歡迎頁面。注：此數據庫一次僅限一個用戶使用。完成後請註銷以允許其他用戶訪問。

Searchable database of the “Sources Chrétiennes” series, which provides critical editions of texts of the first 1400 years of the Christian Church. The editions feature French translations of texts in Greek, Latin, Syriac, Aramaic, and Georgian.

A two volume resource containing over 600 scholarly articles on topics related to Judaism during the Second Temple period.

A database featuring the content from the print version of the Textual History of the Bible, including textual critical information for every biblical and deutero-canonical book. Textual history, translation techniques, and manuscript background are discussed.

Library of Catholic Thought: Contains major reference works, primary texts, and monographs. Includes the New Jerome Biblical Commentary: Second Revised Edition.

T & T Clark Jesus Library: Contains reference works, monographs, articles, images, and audio files on a variety of topics, including: the historical Jesus, Jesus and film, and early Christology. Includes primary texts, peer-reviewed secondary literature, podcasts, and lesson plans and bibliographic guides to use in teaching.

T& T Clark Theology Library: Contains reference works, primary texts by major theologians, articles, and an interactive timeline. Primary texts are from scholars from the 20th century, and cover a wide range of doctrines, including the Trinity, atonement, creation, and pneumatology.

The major resource for searching and analyzing Greek texts of the classical, patristic, and medieval eras, searchable title include Septuaginta (A. Rahlfs, 9th edn. Stuttgart: Wrttemberg Bible Society, 1935) and Novum Testamentum (K. Aland, M. Black, C.M. Martini, B.M. Metzger, and A. Wikgren, The Greek New Testament, 2nd edn. Stuttgart: Wrttemberg Bible Society, 1968). Access Requirements: You must create a personal account using your BC email address.

The Thesaurus Linguae Latinae is the largest Latin dictionary in the world, covers all the Latin texts from the classical period up to about 600 A.D. Academies and scholarly societies from 23 countries support the work of the Bayerische Akademie in creating and maintaining it. The database contains all content available in the print edition.

This database features over 150,000 pages of writings from important scholars in the area of Christianity, along with other complementary resources. Many scholars from underrepresented communities are included.

Also known as the Old Latin Bible. A compilation of Latin translations of Biblical texts which do not appear in the Vulgate Bible, assembled mostly from references in the Church Fathers.

The 55-volume set of Luther's Works, a monumental translation project published jointly by Fortress Press and Concordia Publishing House in 1957, is singular in its value to church historians, Luther scholars, and Christians.

Extensive data are available on 9,000 Christian denominations, 13,000 ethnolinguistic peoples, as well as data on 5,000 cities, 3,000 provinces and 239 countries.

A digital library containing documents from the World Council of Churches archive, dating from 1932-1957.

A digital library containing documents detailing the various meetings of the 1971 Dialogue with People of Living Faiths and Ideologies (DFI) program, a series of interreligious dialogues with Buddhists, Hindus, Jews, and Muslims initiated by the World Council of Churches.

A digital library containing correspondence from the 1920s through 1966, beginning with the period leading up to the founding of the World Council of Churches, and concluding with the era when Dr. Visser ‘t Hooft was General Secretary.

A digital library containing documents from the archives of the World Council of Churches on its ecumenical relationship with the Roman Catholic Church from 1948-1992. Contains correspondence, personal notes, press cuttings, reports and unpublished material, and is divided into five sections: General Documentation, Roman Catholic Church, Council Vatican II, Joint Working Group, and Sodepax.

The World Religion Database (WRD) contains detailed statistics on religious affiliation for every country of the world. It provides source material, including censuses and surveys, as well as best estimates for every religion to offer a definitive picture of international religious demography. It offers best estimates at multiple dates for each of the world's religions for the period 1900 to 2050.