Reserach Guide: Christology (Th 400)
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Large, scholarly, multi-disciplinary database containing indexing for over 8,000 journals with full text for more than 4,600 scholarly publications. Over 500 journals in the areas of religion and theology can be accessed here.
1975 --current | Some full text | More info
ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials combines the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion with ATLA's online collection of major religion and theology journals.
1949--current | Some full text | More info
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1981 --current | Citations only | More info
"A product of a partnership between ATLA and the Weston Jesuit School of Theology, this database has become an indispensable research and bibliographic aid for scholars, librarians, clergy and students of the New Testament and its historical milieu. Contains more than 40,000 article abstracts, 1,200 review abstracts, 14,900 book abstracts, and 50 software abstracts." (from EBSCO)
1985 --current | Citations and abstracts only | More info
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Reference Books of Note |
Encyclopedia of Christianity. Erdmans Brill, 1997.
R230.003 E56 | 5 vols.
Encyclopedia of early Christianity. Garland. 1997.
R270.1 E56 | 2 vols.
Jesus in history, thought, and culture : an encyclopedia. Holde, J. L.. ABC CLIO, 2003.
Covers Jesus as an historical figure, as an object of thought and devotion, and as an influence and subject in art, music and literature.
R232.03 J58 | 2 vols.
New Catholic encyclopedia. Edited by Arie Kruglanski & Tory Higgins. Thomson Gale, 2003
R203 N53c 2003|15 vols. & 2 supplements
New handbook of Christian theology. Musser, Donald & Joseph Price eds. Abingdon Press, 1992.
R230 N53m
Oxford companion to Christian thought. Hastings, Adrian ed. Oxford, 2000.
R230.03 O98
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