Theology Research Guide 

Religion Databases

ATLA Religion Database is available online through EBSCOHost. Includes these principal resources:

–Religion Index One: Periodicals, 1949–current;

–Religion Index Two: Multi-Author Works, 1960–current;

–Index to Books Reviews in Religion, 1949–current;

Also includes full-text articles from over 50 journals. For a list of journal titles available in the database, see the following URL:

http://www.atla.com/products/titles/titles_atlas.html

Christian Periodicals Index is available online through Silver Platter. CPI is an index of English language articles and reviews written from an evangelical perspective.

Index theologicus

Produced by the library of the University of Tübingen. Indexes more than 600 journals.

Religious and Theological Abstracts, 1958–current.

Accessing Online Databases

http://portal.tiu.edu/_uportal/library.php

For off-campus access, you will need to know your Novell user name and password which a lab assistant at any of the campus computer labs can look up for you, or you can send an email to:

it@tiu.edu

Internet Resource

Wabash Center Guide to Internet Resources for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion

Theology Books

Where to find systematic theology books in Rolfing Library:

BT10-1480 Doctrinal Theology

BT19-37 Doctrine and dogma

BT93-93.6 Judaism

BT95-97.2 Divine law. Moral government

BT98-180 God

BT109-115 Doctrine of the Trinity

BT117-123 Holy Spirit. The Paraclete

BT126-127.5 Revelation

BT130-153 Divine attributes

BT198-590 Christology

BT296-500 Life of Christ

BT580 Miracles. Apparitions.

BT587 Relics

BT595-680 Mary, Mother of Jesus Christ. Mariology

BT695-749 Creation

BT750-811 Salvation. Soteriology

BT819-891 Eschatology. Last things

BT899-940 Future state. Future life

BT960-985 Invisible world (saints, demons, etc.)

BT990-1010 Creeds, confessions, covenants, etc.

BT1029-1040 Catechisms

BT1095-1255 Apologetics. Evidences of Christianity

BT1313-1480 History of specific doctrines and movements. Heresies

and schisms

Guides

Ref Z 7770 .G66 1984

Theological and Religious Reference Materials. Gorman & Gorman.

Vol. 2 covers systematic theology and church history.

Ref Z 7751 .K46 1992

Reference Works for Theological Research: An Annotated Selective Bibliographical Guide. 3 rd ed. 1991. Kepple and Muether.

Ref BR 118 .B28 2000

An Introduction to Theological Research. 2d ed. 2000. Barber and Krauss.

Handbooks

Ref BR 118 .E67 1989

The Moody Handbook of Theology. Enns.

Ref BR 95 .N393 1992

A New Handbook of Christian Theology. Musser and Price, eds.

Dictionaries

Systematic Theology

Ref BR 95 .B575 2000

Biographical Dictionary of Christian Theologians. Carey and Lienhard, eds.

Ref BR 95 .D44 2002

Zondervan Dictionary of Bible and Theology Words. DeMoss and Miller.

Ref BR 95 .E75 2001

The Concise Dictionary of Christian Theology. Erickson.

Ref BR 95 .E87 2001

Evangelical Dictionary of Theology. Elwell, ed.

Ref BS440 .D495 2005

Dictionary for Theological Interpretation of the Bible. Kevin Vanhoozer, ed. Baker Academic. Includes signed articles with bibliographies.

Ref BR 95 .N38 1988

New Dictionary of Theology. Ferguson, Wright, and Packer, eds.

Ref BR 95 .R313 1985

Dictionary of Theology. Rahner and Vorgrimler.

Ref BR 95 .R47 1969

A Dictionary of Christian Theology. Richardson, ed.

Ref BR 95 .W494 1983

The Westminster Dictionary of Christian Theology. Richardson and Bowden, eds.

Biblical Theology

Ref BS 440 .E78 1996

Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology. Elwell, ed.

Ref BS 440 .N437 2000

New Dictionary of Biblical Theology. Alexander and Rosner, eds.

Indexes

Index Table BR 1 .R286

Religious and Theological Abstracts. v. 1–, 1958–current.

Also available online.

Index Table Z 7753 .A5

Religion Index One: Periodicals. v. 1–, 1949–current.

Also available online in the ATLA Religion Database.

Index Table Z 7757 .D44 T4313x

Theology in Context. v. 3 (2)–, 1986–current

Information on theological contributions from Africa, Asia, Oceania and Latin America.

Systematic Theologies

The library keeps several systematic theologies in Reference, including:

Ref BT 75 .B38 1996

Systematic Theology. Louis Berkhof.

Ref BT 75.2 .E74 1983

Christian Theology. Millard J. Erickson.

Ref BT 75.2 .G78 2000

Systematic Theology. Wayne Grudem.

Rolfing Memorial Library

Trinity International University

September 2006