Christian Resources

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General

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 Missions and World Christianity Guide (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 Christianity Website - Guide to library collections, sources for material and internet links for Christianity outside the United States and Canada
• World Council of Churches - see documents section for fulltext of World Council of Churches documents

Adventist

• Ellen G. White's writings
• Seventh-Day Adventist Church - official home page - includes church locator, statistics, church manual and official statements
• SDAnet - provides links to a number of Seventh-Day Adventist resources

Anglican

• Anglican Church of Canada - Consultative Council resolutions, Lambeth Conference resolutions, official statements.
• The Anglican Domain - links to Anglican Churches and the Lambeth conference
• Anglican Orthodox Church
• Anglicans Online - lists of worldwide dioceses and parishes with links to individual websites, official publications and religious texts
• Episcopal Church, USA
• Primate's Theological Commission (Anglican Church of Canada) - St. Michael Report (2004) -Blessing of Same-Sex Unions, The Galilee Report (2009).

Baptist

• American Baptist Churches
• American Baptist Women in Ministry
• Baptist General Conference of Canada
• 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
• Southern Baptist Convention - Church Search
• SBCsearch : index to Southern Baptist websites

Brethren

• Church of the Brethren - Official web site
• Church of the Brethern - Unofficial web site
• Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches

Catholic

• Alberti Magni e-corpus - searchable database of the works of Albertus Magnus, 13th century philosophy and theologian
• Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops - List of diocese and documents including those from the Canadian Catholic Aboriginal Countil.
• Catholic Reference Resources - guide to dictionaries, encyclopedias, handbooks, journals etc.
• Canadian Religious Conference - a Roman Catholic association
• Carthusian Monks and Nuns
• Catholic.net - good link to Encyclicals - see under "resources"
• Cistercians
• The Claretians
• Eglise catholique en France
• Order of Preachers - includes official documents
• Fatima Network
• Franciscan Convents
• Franciscan Web Page
• Hagiography Worldwide - links to a variety of webstes
• Jesuits
• 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
• Order of Saint Benedict Home Page - includes links to retreat houses, academic institutions etc.and other links to Monastic resources.
• Popes - Complete list with link to text in Catholic Encyclopedia.
• Société des Bollandistes
• Thomas Merton Society of Great Britain and Ireland - provides links to other Merton sites
• Vatican Web Site

Doukhobors

• Simone Fraser University Library Doukhobor Collection - over 700 manuscripts, photographs , books, articles, document and interviews dealing with the Doukhobors in Canada. Many of the document are available online. For complete collection consult the.Finding aid (last updated 2004)

Evangelical

• Billy Graham Archives Resources related to work and ministry etc. Includes a keyword search to the descriptions of their holdings
• Billy Graham Evangelistic Assocation
• Church of the Brethern
• Evangelical Christian Church in Canada
• Evangelical Fellowship of Canada
• Evangelical Free Church
• Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland
• Jesus Fellowship Church/Jesus Army

Friends

• American Friend Obituary Index - 1894-1960
• Canadian Friends Historical Association
• Religious Society of Friends

Holiness

• Church of the Nazarene - Find a Church

Jehovah's Witnesses

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

Lutheran

• Concordia Historical Institute - Reseach 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 instutions, 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, author index to essays and reports
• Lutheran Legacy - collection of historic texts including works by Johann Gerhard
• Lutheran World Federation
• Worship.ca : The Workship WEbsite of the ELCIC( Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada) - good guide to other worship and spirituality resources on the web
• Richard C. Kessler Reformation Collection ( Pitts Theological Library Digital Archive) - focus on Lutheran material ; Many of the images are available thrugh the Pitts Theology Library Digital Image Archive

Mennonite

• 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 Link: Mennonite Information Source - links to congregations, online documents, libraries etc.
• Mennonite Church USA - find a church , publications
• Mennonite Texts and Bibliographies (Goshen College - Mennonite Historical Library)

Methodist

• African Methodist Episcopal Church
• African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
• Christian Methodist Episcopal Church
• General Commission on Archives and History, The United Methodist Church - Search the Archives
• United Methodist Churches on the World Wide Web - good index to US, and international Methodist churches
• United Methodist Church - Official Website - Find-A-Church

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
• Russian Orthodox Church
• Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia - includes Epistles, and articles and other documents
• Syrian Orthodox Resources

Pentecostal

• United Pentecostal Church International
• Pentecostal World Fellowship - inlcudes World Directory of Pentecostal Publications

Presbyterian

• Dr Williams' Library - " is the pre-eminent research library of English Protestant nonconformity.  Established under the will of Dr Daniel Williams, the Library is one of the oldest open to the public still conducted on its original benefaction." See also the Dissenting Academies Online
• Presbyterian Church Home Page
• Presbyterian Chuch in America - Church Directory
• Presbyterian Church of Brazil

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
• Reformed Church in America - includes listings of congregations in the US and Canada
• Christian Reformed Church in North America
• 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, International Heritage Centre Catalogue

Swendenborg

• 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

Other

• 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.
• Apostolic Faith Church
• Armenian Church of America
• Christian Church Disciples of Christ
• Church of God
• Digital Quaker Collection (Earlham School of Religion)- "fulltext and page images of over 500 individual Quaker works from the 17th and 18th centuries"
• Eglise Protestante de Geneve
• International Churches of Christ
• IFCA International
• Jews for Jesus
• Salvation Army
• Shakers

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