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Portals to Resources for Study of Christianity

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General / Adventist / Anglican / Baptist / Brethren / Catholic / Doukhobors/ Evangelical / Friends / Jehovah's Witnesses / Lutheran / Mennonite / Methodist / Moravian / Orthodox Christian / Pentecostal / Presbyterian / Reformed /Salvation Army / Shakers / Swedenborg / Unitarian

General Portals:

For an excellent overview of denominations in the United States see the Denominations guide prepared by Carolyn Cardwell at Louisville Seminary

• Canadian Church Directory - lists by denominations
• Conference des Eveques de France - information on dioceses, documents and definition of terms
• Fourth Century Christianity - guide to councils and creeds, overviews of Patristic writers and their works and Early Egyptian Monasticism , primary texts (including documents for the Meletian Schism)
• Hartford Institute for Religion Research
• Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Christian Origins
• Internet Resources for the Study of Judaism and Christianity
• Missions and World Christianity Guide (Yale University Library) - prepared by Christopher Anderson at Yale University Library
• Official Denominational Web Sites (Hartford Institue for Religion Research)
• Restoration Movement (Restoration Literature Meta-Index)
• Web Sites Related to the Study of the Eastern Church
• World Council of Churches - see documents section for fulltext of World Council of Churches documents

Adventist

• Ellen G. White's writings
• Online Content on Adventism (Southwestern Adventist University)
• Seventh-Day Adventist Church - official home page - includes church locator, statistics, church manual and official statements

Anglican

• Anglican Church of Canada - Consultative Council resolutions, Lambeth Conference resolutions, official statements - use site search box to locate specific douments by keyword
• The Anglican Domain - links to Anglican Churches and websites
• Anglican Orthodox Church
• Anglicans Online - lists of worldwide dioceses and parishes with links to individual websites, official publications and religious texts
• Episcopal Church, USA

Baptist

• American Baptist Churches USA
• Baptist General Conference of Canada
• Baptist Heritage Digital Library - links to associations, archival collections, biographies, books, photos, research reports, sermons etc.
• The Baptist Index: Articles, Commentary and Resources - compiled by Bruce Gourley
• Baptist Studies Online - primary sources, links to other resources
• Baptist World Alliance - archives of Baptist World Magazine and ECONNECT Newsletter, as well as worship resources and resolutions and a global directory to Baptist Churches
• North American Baptist Conference
• Southern Baptist Convention - Church Search

Brethren

• Brethren Digital Archives - "Mission of the Brethren Digital Archives is to digitize some or all of the periodicals produced from the beginning of publication to the year 2000 by each of the Brethren bodies who trace their origin to the baptism near Schwarzenau, Germany in 1708" - collection includes books and journal articles
• Church of the Brethren - Official web site
• Church of the Brethern - Unofficial web site - provides links to websites for Brethren groups

Catholic

• Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops - List of diocese and documents including those from the Canadian Catholic Aboriginal Council.
• Catholic Reference Resources - guide to dictionaries, encyclopedias, handbooks, journals etc.
• Canadian Religious Conference - a Roman Catholic association
• Catholic Research Resources Alliance - note Subject Guides - providing links, background information, lists of digitized colletions etc, topcis covered include: The Augustinians, Catholic Missions, The Jesuits, Religious Orders for Women and Vatican II Page
• Hagiography Worldwide - links to a variety of websites
• The Hierarchy of the Catholic Church: Current and historical information about its bishops and dioceses
• Leadership Conference of Women Religious - Links to Religious Congregations and Other Resources
• Medieval Religion -links to Saints and Martyrs, Holy Orders and texts
• New Advent Catholic Website - includes the Catholic Encyclopedia and the texts of the Church Father and St. Thomas Aquina's Summa Theologica and numerous other resources and links
• Popes - Complete list with link to text in Catholic Encyclopedia.
• United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
• Vatican Web Site

Doukhobors

• Doukhobor Discovery Centre
• Union of Spiritual Communities of Christ

Evangelical

• Billy Graham Archives Resources related to work and ministry etc. Includes a keyword search to the descriptions of their holdings
• Evangelical Christian Church in Canada
• Evangelical Fellowship of Canada
• Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland
• National Association of Evangelicals

Friends

• Canadian Friends Historical Association
• Quaker Information Center - Earlham School of Religion
• Religious Society of Friends

Jehovah's Witnesses

• Jehovah's Witnesses - official web site of Jehovah's witnesses - includes issues of the Watchtower and Awake! magazines

Lutheran

• Concordia Historical Institute - Research center on the history of Lutheranism in North America, contains the archives of the LCMS as well as histories of congregations schools and other agencies, records of educational institutions, photographs and av resources.
• The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod
• First Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church - includes directories, documents etc.
• Evangelical Lutheran Church in America - official home page
• Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada Home Page
• Home Page for Special Collections at Luther Seminary Library
• Joseph Sittler Archives
• Lutheran Historical Conference - quarterly newsletter, links
• Lutheran World Federation

Mennonite/Amish

• Amish Studies - "academic website developed by the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College (Pa.) to provide reliable information on Amish life and culture." - books, journal articles, statistics etc.
• Canadian Conference of Mennonite Brethren Church
• GAMEO: Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online - very good source of information, includes articles copied or adapted from The Mennonite Encyclopedia
• Menno Simons.net: Life, writings, doctrine, images and link
• Mennonite Church USA - find a church
• Mennonite Texts and Bibliographies (Goshen College - Mennonite Historical Library)

Methodist

• African Methodist Episcopal Church
• African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
• Center for Methodist Studies (Bridwell/Perkins School of Theology
• Christian Methodist Episcopal Church
• United Methodist Churches on the World Wide Web - good index to US, and international Methodist churches
• United Methodist Church - Official Website - Find-A-Church - Directory & Statistics
• World Methodist Council

Moravian

• Moravian Church in America - Official Homepage

Orthodox Christian

• Christian Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt - links to Christian Coptic network
• Europe Coptic Orthodox Directory
• Ecumenical Patriarchate - includes Patriarchial Encyclicals, Homilies, Synodal Decisions and Letters
• Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
• Jewish Roots of Eastern Christian Mysticism
• Orthodox Christian Page
• Orthodox Christian Websites: Archdioceses and Dioceses around the world - from www.orthodoxchristian.info
• Orthodox Resources on the Internet - compiled by Minos Orphanides
• Russian Orthodox Church
• Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia - includes Epistles, and articles and other documents
• Serbian Orthodox Church
• Syrian Orthodox Resources

Pentecostal

• Church of God
• Pentecostal-Charismatic Theological Inquiry International
• United Pentecostal Church International
• Pentecostal World Fellowship

Presbyterian

• Presbyterian Church Home Page
• Presbyterian Church in America - Church Directory
• Presbyterian Church in Canada

Reformed

• Center for Reformed Theology and Apologetics - includes articles on Christianity and Science and Christianity and Education, information on Calvinism and the full-text of reformed works and commentaries
• Christian Reformed Church in North America
• Protestant Reformed Churches in America
• Reformed Church in America - includes listings of congregations in the US and Canada
• United Church of Canada
• United Church of Christ
• United Reformed Churches in North America
• World Communion of Reformed Churches - Congregational, Presbyterian, Reformed and United

Salvation Army

• Salvation Army (UK) - History, Find A Church
• Salvation Army International

Shakers

• Shaker Sites in the US (from Hancock Shaker Village)

Swendenborg

• Swedenborg Foundation
• Swedenborg Project
• The New Church (Church of the New Jerusalem) - based on the Bible and the teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg

Unitarian

• Unitarian Universalist Association
• Unitarian Universalist Historical Society - links to resources

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