New! Database Trial: “Theology and Religion Online”
The School of Theology Library has just implemented a trial of a new database, Bloomsbury/T&T Clark’s Theology and Religion Online, which will go through November 15, 2021.
This resource consists of a number of components, including an extensive e-book collection as well as articles and reference works.
- T&T Clark Theology Library
- Online, interactive timeline.
- Introductory essays commissioned exclusively for T&T Clark Theology Library, written by key academics.
- Primary texts by major theologians, including works by Karl Barth (including complete Church Dogmatics), Wolfhart Pannenburg, Karl Rahner, Eberhard Jüngel, Thomas Torrance, Colin Gunton, and Hans Urs von Balthasar.
- Lectionary Commentary Series
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- T&T Clark Jesus Library
- Reference Works, including the 4-vol History of the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ and the 3-vol Reception of Jesus in the First Three Centuries, digitally exclusive to the resource.
- 500 images sourced from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Bloomsbury Religion in North America
- 127 digitally exclusive, peer reviewed articles – Organized around key themes for courses in religious studies including: African American Religion; Religion and Nature; Secularity and Non-Religion; Religion, Science and Technology; and more.
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- eBook Collection – Monographs, handbooks, and textbooks featuring such titles as The Bloomsbury Reader on Islam in the West, Understanding Sport as a Religious Phenomenon, Buddhism in America, and Race and New Religious Movements in the USA
- Study Skills: The Basics — Articles in this section provide guidance on the skills needed to study religion, to help students get the most from their courses. Includes resources such as
- Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary
- The first major Bible dictionary to be published in America in 30 years that includes six volumes of approximately 1,200 pages each
- More than 6,000 entries, 7,000,000 words, and nearly 1,000 contributors
- Endpaper maps of the Near Eastern world keyed to text for quick location of archaeological and biblical sites
- Articles on pseudepigraphic and apocryphal texts, Nag Hammadi tractates, and individual Dead Sea Scrolls, including the most recently published sectarian Dead Sea Scrolls as well as articles illustrating the literary artistry of the biblical text
- Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries
- Draws from the wisdom and resources of Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish scholars from around the world
- Includes a book-by-book translation and exegesis of the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, and the Apocrypha to make available all the significant historical and linguistic knowledge which bears on the interpretation of the Bible
- Library of Catholic Thought
- The New Jerome Biblical Commentary: Second Revised Edition – A new edition of this major reference work, which is digitally exclusive to Library of Catholic Thought. This new edition also features a preface by Pope Francis.
- Handbooks of Catholic Theology – A major international textbook series under the general editorship of Christoph Cardinal Schönborn of Vienna, these five volumes cover key topics such as liturgy and church history
- Reference works, dictionaries, and sourcebooks – Seminal reference works and primary texts brought to the digital environment with updated prefaces, user guides, and specially commissioned content.
- Ebook collection – Featuring titles on Catholic theology, key thinkers, and socio-cultural concerns
- 500 Images of Catholic artwork, manuscripts, and other artifacts