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A "faculty-library initiative at Yale Divinity School that provides digital resources for teaching and research related to the history of Christianity."

All the decress available through downloading zipped files.

This official homepage of the American Baptist Churches.

The American Society of Church History is a society promoting scholarship and research in church history, with a particular focus on the American scene.

Official website which covers biography, writings, role, office and palace at Lambeth of the Rt. Rev'd Rowan Williams.

Site present numerous materials on the life and works of St. Augustine.

Over 250 entries. Can be sorted chronologically, alphabetically, or by date.

This site consists "of the biographies of the 17th to the 21st century cardinals and of the events and documents concerning the origin of the Roman cardinalate and its historical evolution."

Directory of links.

The international Catholic web portal.

Collection of historic church documents and numerous links to online resources.

Directory of sites including links to papal statements and documents. Online since 1994.

Official Website for the Church of England.

Detailed church site includes sections on the basic tenants, historical developments, texts and scriptures, and news articles and related stories.

Full edition of the complete works of Thomas Aquinas in Latin.

Official home page for the (Christian Church) Disciples of Christ.

Includes constitutions, declarations, and decrees. From the Vatican Council.

"The Early Church Fathers is a 38-volume collection of writings from the first 800 years of the Church. This collection is divided into three series, Ante-Nicene (anf), Nicene and Post-Nicene Series I (npnf1), and Nicene and Post-Nicene Series II (npnf2)."

This searchable database "is a faculty-library initiative at Yale Divinity School that provides digital resources for teaching and research in the field of Biblical studies."

Directory of links, mostly in Spanish, a few in English.

Official website of the evangelical Lutheran Church of England.

A large colleection of primary texts and resources relating to Gnosticism and the Gnostic tradition.

The Vatican's resource for the study of Catholicism past and present. Available in Dutch, English, Spanish, French, Italian, or Portugese.

"Into His Own is designed as a tool for the historical study of Christian scriptures."

Site for "one of the largest religious orders in the Catholic Church," includes history vocation, conference, and education information information about the social ministry of the Jesuits and a list of other resources.

Official website of the Mennonite Church USA.

Online version of "an inter-Mennonite newspaper published weekly since 1923."

The official website of the Presbyterian Church in the United States.

Full text of works by and about MArtin Luther and other Lutherans.

"The Quaker Archives database is a combined name index to many of the older documents in Leeds University Library's Carlton Hill archive, the nature of which is described in the guide to the Quaker Archives accessible below. The database contains nearly 40,000 records, most of them indexing the names of those individual Quakers who are recorded in minute books of West and North Yorkshire Meetings of the Society of Friends, dating from the late 17th to the early 20th century. Altogether some seventy minute books have been indexed for the database, and a list of indexed documents is also available below. It must be stressed that the records in the database - which are derived from old typescript indexes - provide (on the whole) little more than page references to archival documents. In this way the database is essentially a finding list for use alongside the Carlton Hill archive."

Part of the Victorian Web, this site provides an overview of religion in nineteenth-century Britain.

Provides links to academic web resources, from the University of Pennsylvania Library.

"Links, lesson plans, clip art, coloring pages,crossword puzzles, newsletterfor Catholic catechists,teachers, DREs, parents and all involvedin the education of the faith."

A society which specializes in the critical study of the Bible and cognate literatures.

"The website was created in early 1996 and has grown continuously ever since. It provides information about biblical and liturgical texts of the Syrian Orthodox Church, commentaries, works of the Syriac fathers, biographies of the fathers, musical traditions of the church, history of the church, churches and monasteries of antiquity, the hierarchical orders and organization of the church, etc. The website also publishes lectionaries, liturgical calendars, bibliographies and other aids for Syrian Orthodox Christians to enrich their spiritual lives. In addition, the website provides current information of interest to Syrian Orthodox communities of both Middle Eastern and Indian origin, including news, culture, etc."

A Catholic directory of Web resources from the Department of Theology at Spring hill College in Mobile, Alabama.

Includes over 300 biographies.

The Official home page of the United Methodist Church.

Official home page of the United Church of Christ.

"This Research Guide for Christianity provides pointers to the print and microform collections, online databases, internet resources, and other resources for conducting research in Christian studies at Yale University."