Religious Studies: Christianity

• Fides Quaerens Internetum (The Christian Theology Page) - Bryan Stone
  Divides sites by topic, doctrine, theologian; also has links to publishers, schools, newsgroups, and journals.
• Internet Resources for the Study of Judaism and Christianity - Jay C. Treat, University of Pennsylvania
  A Penn-centered page which includes links to Penn course material.

• Biblical Texts
• Christian Classics Ethereal Library
  Large collection of links to texts in the public domain. Includes the 38 volume set of Early Church Fathers
• Glossary for Judaism, Christianity, Islam - Bob Kraft, University of Pennsylvania
• Patrologia Latina, an electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina, published between 1844 and 1855, and the four volumes of indexes published between 1862 and 1865. The Patrologia Latina comprises the works of the Church Fathers from Tertullian in 200 CE to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216.

• Index analytique des Catalogues de manuscrits hagiographiques latins publiés par les Bollandistes - Société des Bollandistes
  An online version of the Bibliotheca hagiographica latina.
• THEOLDI: Documentation of Theological and Interdisciplinary Literature - School of Theology at University of Innsbruck Theology Literature Database at the Faculty of Theology. Contains (among other) the Girard documentation. Searchable by word, author, subject, title, source. Articles, monographs, and Festschriften included in index of biblical, systematic theology, and canon law. Extensive Help available.
  
  

• Ancient Jewish Accounts of Jewish - Alan Humm, University of Pennsylvania
  English-language translations of non-Christian writings about Jesus.
• From Jesus to Christ
  Frontline's PBS series concerning Jesus and early Christianity
• Jesus Seminar Forum
  The official gateway to the research of the Jesus Seminar of the Westar Institute & a bridge to Jesus scholarship elsewhere.
• Life of Jesus by Ernest Renan
  Originally published in 1863. English translation by A.D. Howell Smith.
• Quest of the Historical Jesus - Andrew Bernhard
  Good web page which covers all aspects of the Quest. Includes links to primary sources, and key web resources.

• ABZU - Research Archives of the Oriental Institute, Chicago
  A guide to resources for the study of the Ancient Near East available on the Internet.
• Augustine - James O'Donnell, University of Pennsylvania
• Church Fathers - CCAT Gopher, University of Pennsylvania
• Early Church Fathers - Christian Classics Ethereal Library
  Ante-Nicene, Nicene and Post-Nicene Series I, and Nicene and Post-Nicene Series II.
• Ecole Initiative
  Includes translations of Judeo-Christian and Islamic primary sources to 1500, a glossary of short essays, longer essays on major topics and figures, links to iconography and religious images on the web, and a timeline with geographical cross-index.
• Fathers of the Church - Wesley Center for Applied Theology
  Some translations by J.B. Lightfoot; others unsigned.
• Fathers of the Church - from New Advent
• Guide to Early Church Documents - ICLnet (Institute for Christian Leadership)
  Includes texts of the Apostolic Fathers, Patristic Texts, various Creeds and Canons, The Summa Theologica, and other miscellaneous documents.
• Jewish Roots of Eastern Christian Mysticism - web page of faculty and students of Marquette University
  The resources normally include previously published and unpublished scholarly articles, electronic publications, lectures, reviews, and sometimes the critical responses to these materials.
  Some of the themes included are: Theological Legacies; Aphrahat; Evagrius of Pontus; Corpus Dionysiacum; Anthropomorphism in Rabbinic and Eastern Christian Sources; Baptismal Traditions; The Pseudepigrapha and the Transmission of Jewish Texts and Traditions in Eastern Christian Environment

• Labyrinth - Martin Irvine and Deborah Everhart
  Large collection of resources for Medieval Studies including libraries for Philosophy and Theology, and Religious History.
• Internet Medieval Sourcebook - Paul Halsall, editor
  Not to be missed! Primary source material arranged in three main sections:
  • Selected Sources
    An index of selected and excerpted primary texts. Topics include "Christian Late Antiquity" (Persecution of Christians, Dogmatic Disputes, Church Fathers), "Formation of Latin Christendom" (The Roman Church, Monasticism, Conversion of Europe), "Flowering of Latin Christendom" (Western Monasticism after A.D. 900, Crusades, Holy Roman Empire), "Medieval Life and Thought."
  • Full Text Sources
    Full texts of sources in "Selected Sources" and *many* more arranged according to topic.
  • Saints' Lives. Devoted to Ancient, Medieval and Byzantine hagiographical sources.

• Institut für schweizerische Reformationsgeschichte - Universität Zürich
• Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin
  - A New Translation, by Henry Beveridge, Esq
• Project Wittenberg
  A cross-section of classic and historic texts written by Lutherans, with a primary focus on texts written by Martin Luther, 1483-1546.

• Ecumenical Bodies such as the National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA
  and its Member Communions and the World Council of Churches.
• For Roman Catholicism see the Vatican web site and John Mark Ockerbloom's Catholic Resources on the Net.
• See the list at Rutgers University of Confessional Agencies for other church bodies.

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