Bibliographic Information Base in Patristics (BIBP) Index of over 31,000 "documents" from periodicals, collections of essays. Created and directed by R.-M. Roberge at Université Laval, Québec.
Print Indexes:
Catholic Periodical and Literature Index. ThRef Indexes Z7837 .C3
Church History: An Introduction to Research, Reference Works, and Methods. James E. Bradley and Richard A. Muller. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995.4th floor BR138 .B69 1995
Theological and Religious Reference Materials. Vol. 2: Systematic Theology and Church History. G. E. Gorman and Lyn Gorman. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1985. ThRef Z7751 .G63 1984
Reference Works for Theological Research. 3rd ed. Robert J. Kepple and John R. Muether. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1992. ThRef Z7751 .K46 1992
The Encyclopedia of Christianity. 5 vols.projected. Geoffrey Bromiley, ed. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans; Leiden: Brill, 1999- . ThRef BR95 .E8913 1999
The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 3rd ed, revised. F. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone, eds. London and New York: Oxford, 2005. ThRef BR 95 .O9 2005.
New Catholic Encyclopedia. 2nd ed. 14 vols. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America, 2003. ThRef BX841 .N44 2003
(Online version of the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1st edition, 1913)
Encyclopedia of Protestantism. 4 vols. Hans J. Hillerbrand, ed. New York: Routledge, 2004. ThRef BX4811.3 .E53 2004
The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge. 15 vols. Samuel Macauley Jackson, ed. New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1908-1914. ThRef BR95 .S43 (CCEL online version)
The Baker Atlas of Christian History. Tim Dowley, ed. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1997. ThRef BR98 .D69 1997
Biographical Resources
Dictionary of Christian Biography. Michael Walsh, ed. Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press, 2001. ThRef BR1700.3 .D53 2001
Biographical Dictionary of Evangelicals. Tim Larson, ed. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 2003. ThRef BV3780 .B56 2003
Women in Christian History: A Bibliography. Carolyn DeArmond Blevins, ed. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1995. ThRef Z7963 .R45 B45 1995
Dictionary of American Religious Biography. 2nd ed. Henry W. Bowden, ed. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1993. ThRef BL72 .B68 1993
Oxford Dictionary of Saints. 2nd ed. David Hugh Farmer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987. ThRef BR1710 .F34 1987 [ 5th edition, 2003, available online ]
National Biographical Dictionaries:
Great Britain:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 60 vols. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison, eds. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Ref DA28 .D4 2004
United States:American National Biography. 24 vols. John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, eds. New York: Oxford, 1998. Ref CT213 . A68 1998. Online version: American National Biography
Dictionary of the Middle Ages. 13 vols. Joseph R. Strayer, ed. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1982. (with Supplement 1, ed. William C. Jordan, 2004). Ref D114 .D5 1982
Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages. 2 vols. Andre Vauchez, ed. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000. Ref D114 .E53 2000
Lexikon des Mittelalters. 9 vols. Robert Auty, ed. Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler, 1999. Ref D101.5 .L49 1999
The Reformation and Post-Reformation Church
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation. 4 vols. Hillerbrand, Hans J., ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. ThRef BR302.8 .O93 1996. Also available online
The Reformation World. Andrew Pettegree, ed. New York: Routledge, 2000. 4th floor BR305.2 .P48 2000
A Companion to the Reformation World. R. Po-chia Hsia, ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004. Meeter BR309 .C62 2004
North American Church
The Encyclopedia of American Catholic History. Michael Glazer and Thomas J. Shelley, eds. Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press, 1997. ThRef BX1406.2 .E53 1997
Encyclopedia of Religion in the South. Samuel S Hill. Macon, Georgia.: Mercer University Press, 1984. ThRef BR535 .E52 1984
The Evangelicals: A Historical, Thematic, and Biographical Guide. Robert H. Krapohl and Charles H. Lippy. Westport, Conn., and London: Greenwood, 1999. BV3773 .K73 1999
Handbook of Denominations in the United States. 11th ed. Frank S. Mead and Samuel S. Hill. Nashville: Abingdon, 2001. ThRef BR516.5 .M38 2001
Encyclopedia of American Religions. 7th ed. J. Gordon Melton. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2003. ThRef BL2530 .U6 M443 2003
Dictionary of Christianity in America. Daniel G. Reid, ed. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 1990. ThRef BR515 .D53 1990
North American Church Atlases
The Routledge Historical Atlas of Religion in America. Bret. E. Carroll. New York and London: Routledge, 2000. Ref G1201 .E4 C3 2000
New Historical Atlas of Religion in America. Edwin Scott Gaustad and Philip L. Barlow. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Ref G1201.E4 N4 2001
Atlas of American Religion: The Denominational Era, 1776-1990. William M. Newman, and Peter L. Halvorson. New York and Oxford: Altamira Press, 2000. ThRef BR515 .N49 2000
Resources for Christian Reformed Church History
A list of handbooks, directories, periodicals, synodical proceedings, monographs, and databases useful for the study of the history of the Christian Reformed Church
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