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Biblical and Theological Resources

Discipleship Encounters
The amazingly effective and yet simple discipleship tool designed by Jerry and Nancy Reed

Libraries
Pitts Theological Library
http://www.pitts.emory.edu
Vanderbilt Divinity Library
http://divinity.library.vanderbilt.edu

General Religious Web Pages
Institute of Christian Leadership
www.iclnet.org
The Biblical Studies Foundation
www.bible.org

Biblical Gateways
Computer Assisted Theology
info.ox.ac.uk/ctitext/theology
Religious Studies with a strong focus on Bible
www.torreys.org/bible/
New Testament Gateway:
www.ntgateway.com
Bibelwissenschaft (A German site for biblical studies)
www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk
The Gramcord Institute
www.gramcord.org
Internet Resources for the Study of Judaism and Christianity
ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~jtreat/rs/resources.html
www.academicinfo.net/religindex.html
www.vocations.org/library/linkss.htm

http://www.religion-online.org
Religion Online Database: More than 3,600 articles and chapters. Topics include Old and New Testament, Theology, ethics, History and Sociology of Religion, Communication and Cultural Studies, Pastoral Care, Counseling, Homiletics, Worship, Missions and religious education.

http://dmoz.org/Society/Religion_and_Spirituality/Christianity/
The Open Directory Project seeks to be an Internet wide database of links on every topic under the sun, maintained by the general public. Its Christianity section provides academic, social and devotional headings and at last count 51,700 links.

http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~religion/vri/index.html
Virtual Religion Index

Biblical Studies
biblicalstudies.info/
www.ccel.org/
hermeneutics.kulikovskyonline.net/
www.bsw.org
www.isatex.de
www.arts.ualberta.ca/JHS/
religion.rutgers.edu/iho/index.html
www.textweek.com/pauline/paul.htm
http://www.ot-studies.com/
Excellent general website for OT studies, with many links to hosts of valuable sites elsewhere.

Jewish Resources
shamash.org/trb/judaism.html
hobbes.jct.ac.il/efi/torah.html

Archaeology
http://www.geocities.com/jim_lancaster.geo/archaeology.html

Provides interesting info on archaeology of Canaan
www.ibiblio.org/expo/deadsea.scrolls.exhibit/intro.html

Greco-Roman World and Greek
www.ibiblio.org/bgreek/archives
www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~fisher/gnt/
www.perseus.tufts.edu
www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Classics/welcome.html

Textual Criticism and Ancient Manuscripts
ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~jtreat/rs/resources.html#mss
www.skypoint.com/~waltzmn/
members.aol.com/dvdmoore/html/txtcrt.htm
www.earlham.edu/~seidti/iam/interp_mss.html

Documents from the Church's History
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/christian-history.html
www.ccel.org
newadvent.org/fathers
http://www.christianitytoday.com/history/

Duke Divinity School offers an annotated page of religion and theology links
http://www.lib.duke.edu/divinity/divlist.html


Image Database
http://research.yale.edu/divdl/eikon

http://www.bibleplaces.com/index.htm
Best source for photos of Bible sites

Chiasmus
www.chiasmus.com

Pastoral Care, Pastoral Theology and Pastoral Psychology and Mental Health
American Association of Pastoral Counselors
http://www.aapc.org/
Association for Clinical Pastoral Education
http://www.acpe.edu/
Mental Health Net
http://mentalhelp.net/
Christian Association for Psychological Studies
http://www.caps.net/
Person. Religion, Culture section of AAR
http://home.att.net/~pcr-aar/
Nelson’s Psychology of Religion web page
www.psychwww.com/psyrelig
Society of Pastoral Theology
http://www.geocities.com/societyforpastoraltheology/
Links to Psychological Journals: An Index of Psychology and Social Science Journals Online
http://www.psycline.org/journals/psycline.html
Online Psych (including Jung links)
http://www.apsa.org/
Jean Fitzpatrick’s Pastoral Psychotherapy Page
http://www.pastoralcounseling.net/

Faith and Health Ministry Links
Center for Religion/Spirituality and Health
http://www.cchf.org/
Health Ministries Association
http://www.healthministriesassociation.org/
Interfaith Health Program
Rollins School of Public Health
Emory University
http://www.ihpnet.org
International Center for the Integration of Health and Spirituality
http://www.nihr.org
International Parish Nurse Resource Center
http://ipnrc.parishnurses.org/
Nurses Christian Fellowship
http://www.ivcf.org/ncf/

Spiritual Formation
www.practicingourfaith.org
This is a website developed out of the excellent book, Practicing our Faith, edited by Dorothy Bass.

www.praythenews.com
Learn from the Carmelites of Indianapolis how they combine their contemplative prayer life with an active interest in the world around them. You can light a candle and ask the sisters there to pray for you and your ministry as well.

www.jesuit.ie/prayer
This site by the Irish Jesuits invites you to use your computer to invite you into a “sacred space” for a desktop prayer time. The website is in eight languages and provides helpful guidance for your prayer.

www.creighton.edu/collaborative ministry/onlin.html
This address is long, but this is an excellent site with the Ignatian Retreat in a thirty-week format and links to other good Christian sites. There are also daily reflections on the readings for the day from the faculty and staff at Creighton.

Homiletics
www.evangelicalhomiletics.com
This is the web site of the Evangelical Homiletics Society, and organization that is open to pastors, professors of preaching, and seminary students. The papers from their annual meeting are available through this site.

http://www.wlu.ca/~wwwsem/ah/aboutah.shtmll
Web site for the Academy of Homiletics, an organization for teachers of preaching. You can get access to the latest scholarship in the field of homiletics.

www.preaching.com
This is from Preaching Magazine, edited by Michael Duduit. It offers a weekly email newsletter with pulpit helps, and also sends you notice of upcoming continuing education events.

http://www.4lpi.com/index.php
Through this web site you can subscribe to Word and Witness, a lectionary resource edited by William Willimon, dean of Duke University Chapel.

Justice Ministries
www.thewitness.org
www.sojourners.org
www.wordandworld.org
www.afsc.org
www.bcm.org
www.theotherside.org
www.aarweb.org
www.sbl.org

Youth Ministry Studies
Youth Specialties
www.youthspecialties.com

Congregational and Leadership resources
www.alban.org
The Alban Institute provides resources for congregations including links to books, articles, research and conferences. Topics include everything from leadership to stewardship. Many articles are free to download.

www.christianitytoday.com/leaders
Christianity Today has a resource called Leadershipjournal.net with articles on everything from administration to worship.

www.covchurch.org/cov/resources/greenhouse
The Covenant Worship Greenhouse is a site building a database of original resources for worship created in covenant Churches around the country. A great source for liturgies as well as contemporary praise music.

http://www.cyberhymnal.org



Theological Resources
http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/religion/relgloss.htm
Alister McGrath’s Glossary of Theological Terms

http://info.ox.ac.uk/ctitext/theology
General Theology Gateway

http://www.lib.duke.edu/divinity/divlist.html
Duke Divinity School offers an annotated page of religion and theology links

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~rs2/glossind.html
Judaism, Christianity and Islam Glossary

http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/religion
Blackwell Publishers: Many religious links on all sorts of topics collected by the major Oxford publisher Blackwell’s and checked by Alister McGrath.

 

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