FREE ONLINE THEOLOGY RESOURCES
BIBLES and COMMENTARIES ONLINE
Online Bible texts
· Interlinear
Bibles
· The
Interlinear NRSV-NIV Parallel New Testament in Greek and English. A.
Marshall, trans. Zondervan, 1993;
· The
Interlinear NIV Parallel New Testament in Greek and English: The Nestle Greek
Text with a Literal English Translation. A. Marshall, trans.
Zondervan, 1999.
· The
Interlinear NASB-NIV Parallel New Testament in Greek and English: Parallel New
Testament in Greek and English. A. Marshall, trans. Zondervan, 1993.
· The
Interlinear NASB-NIV Parallel New Testament in Greek and English: Parallel New
Testament in Greek and English. A. Marshall, trans. Zondervan, 1993.
· Interlinear
KJV Parallel New Testament in Greek and English: Based on the Textus Receptus
with Lexicon and Synonyms. George Ricker Berry, trans. Zondervan,
1993.
· The New
Greek-English interlinear New Testament: a new interlinear translation of the
Greek New Testament, United Bible Societies` fourth, corrected edition with the
New Revised Standard Version, New Testament. R.K. Brown, et al.,
trans. Fourth ed. Tyndale House, 1993 (also copy).
· Interlinear
KJV-NIV Parallel New Testament in Greek and English: New Testament in Greek and
English. A. Marshall, trans. Zondervan, 1992.
· Other
online Bibles
· Greek New Testament (with textual
variants)
Single-Volume Bible Commentaries
· Collegeville
Bible Commentary: Based on the New American Bible. Robert J. Karris,
Dianne Bergant, eds. Liturgical Press, 1992 (also copy 1 and copy 2).
· IVP Bible
Background Commentary: New Testament. Craig S. Keener, ed.
InterVarsity, 1993.
· Life
Application New Testament Commentary. B.B. Barton, ed. Tyndale
House, 2001.
· Tyndale
Concise Bible Commentary. R.B. Hughes and J.C. Laney, eds. Tyndale
House, 2001.
New Testament Commentaries
· Alford’s
‘New Testament for English Readers’ — The New Testament for English
Readers: Containing the Authorized Version, with Marginal Corrections of
Readings and Renderings, Marginal References, and a Critical and Explanatory
Commentary, by Henry Alford, D.D., Dean of Canterbury (London:
Rivingtons, 1866; 2nd ed. 1868): Matthew, Mark, Luke (1868, John, Acts (1863); Epistles of Paul (1865); Hebrews, Catholic Epistles, and Revelation (1866).
· Ante-Nicene
Fathers: e-Catena. By Peter Kirby. References to
the New Testament culled from the writings of the Ante-Nicene Fathers—good for
understanding how the text was interpreted in ancient times.
· Barnes' Notes on the New Testament. A conservative
commentary on the New Testament by an American Presbyterian, Albert Barnes
(1832).
· Expository
Notes. By Thomas L. Constable, Senior Professor of Bible Exposition
at Dallas Theological Seminary. This contains .pdf files for each book of the
Bible.
· IVP New Testament Commentaries at Bible Gateway.
A collection of brief and casual commentaries from a moderately conservative
perspective, recently published by InterVarsity Press. Currently available
online are: Matthew (Craig S. Keener); Luke (Darrell L. Bock); John (Rodney A.
Whitacre); Acts (William J. Larkin); 2 Cor (Linda L. Belleville); Galatians (G.
Walter Hansen); Philippians (Gordon D. Fee); Colossains (Robert W. Wall); 1 Tim
(Philip H. Towner); Philemon (Robert W. Wall); Titus (Philip H. Towner); James
(George M. Stulac); 1,2,3 John (Marianne Meye Thompson); and Revelation (J.
Ramsey Michaels).
· John
Lightfoot's Commentary on the New Testament from the Talmud and Hebraica.
Notices many parallels in early Jewish writings that help to explain the New
Testament.
· John Wesley's Notes on the Bible provide a concise
commentary from an Arminian perspective, though the doctrines peculiar to
Arminianism are not emphasized. The notes for the New Testament were originally
published as part of Wesley's New Testament.
· New
Testament commentary for English readers, by various writers, edited by Charles
J. Ellicott, 3 vols. (London: Cassell, 1884): vol. 1 (Gospels); vol. 2 (Acts, Romans, Corinthians,
Galatians); vol. 3 (Ephesians to Revelation).
· Notes
on the Greek New Testament. By Peter Misselbrook. Brief commentary
on all the books of the New Testament designed for students who have some
Greek. Consists mostly of quotations drawn from recent commentaries by
conservative scholars.
· The People's New Testament. A commentary
by the Disciples of Christ scholar Barton W. Johnson, first published in 1891.
Contains Arminian interpretations, in line
with the theology of the American "restoration movement," but
otherwise very helpful, with introductions and appendixes.
· Word Studies in the New Testament by
Marvin Vincent. A very useful resource for teachers. Vincent goes through the
entire New Testament briefly noting interesting details about words and
phrases. First published in 1886.
· Word Pictures in the New Testament by A.T. Robertson.
Similar to Vincent's earlier work, but more up to date in scholarship and more
technical. First published in 1933.
Commentaries on the Whole Bible
· Calvin's Commentaries. English
translation of the famous reformer's commentaries.
· Matthew Henry's Commentary. An excellent resource for
traditional Protestant interpretation and application.
· Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary. A good
concise commentary, much less full than Calvin's or Henry's, but more recent.
· John
Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible. Especially helpful for
theological exposition.
· Classic
Bible Commentaries, courtesy of E-Word Today. Includes commentaries
of Gill, Jamieson-Faussett-Brown, John Lightfoot, Ben Johnson, Matthew Henry,
McGarvey and Pendleton, and Luther (Galatians). Also the notes of Darby,
Wesley, and the Geneva Bible.
· Coffman's
Commentaries. Conservative and devotional commentary on the whole
Bible by a Church of Christ scholar, James Burton Coffman.
· Adam Clarke's Commentaries. Conservative
and Arminian in doctrinal view.
Lexicons
The University of California (Irving) has made available
a new (free) online version of the Liddell-Scott-Jones Greek-English
Lexicon (commonly abbreviated LSJ). The LSJ is *the* standard
classical Greek lexicon, and it is extremely valuable to anyone studying the
New Testament. Although online versions of the LSJ have been in existence
for some time, this new electronic edition has a few major advantages.
All of the lexicon entries have been broken down so that each word has its own
entry (in the print edition, many sub-entry words were listed under a single
head word entry, making navigation of the lexicon somewhat difficult). One
can navigate to any of these Greek ‘headwords’ using the left menu, or by
typing in the Latin alphabet equivalent of Greek letters in the search box (the
Greek search text shows up in a pop-up below the search box as you type, so
that you can see if you are typing the correct letters).
Bible Commentaries
Bible Dictionaries
Easton's Bible Dictionary from
BibleStudyTools.net
LARGE RELIGION WEBSITES
This guide provides a selective listing of the best
Internet resources of interest to religious studies scholars and students of
religion. Rather than attempt a comprehensive listing of religious information
on the Internet, this guide selectively points to the best gateways to specific
types of religious information. This guide is especially designed to provide
both novice and advanced Internet researchers with a helpful starting point for
online religious research. The guide has its origins in a presentation given by
Dr. John Gresham at a regional conference of Religious Studies Scholars in
Dallas, Texas in 1994.
A guide to online indexes related to Christian missions,
Christian resources, Christian literature, and early church documents.
A site maintained by Yale Divinity School Library.
Resources organized by these subject areas: Bible,
Church/Denominational/Ecumenical, Church History, Ethics and Social Issues,
Missions & World Christianity, Systematic/Doctrinal theology, Practical
Theology, and Religion and the Arts.
This site provides links that may be of interest to
anyone doing advanced research in matters of religion. Site categories include
Academic Sites, Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Archaeology & Religious Art,
Buddhist Studies, Comparative Study of Religion, East Asian Studies, Ethics
& Moral Values, Greco-Roman Studies, Islamic Studies, Philosophy &
Theology, American Studies, Anthropology & Sociology, Biblical Studies,
Christian Tradition, Confessional Agencies, Hindu Studies, Jewish Studies, and
Psychology of Religion.
A selective, annotated guide to a wide variety of
electronic resources of interest to those who are involved in the study and
practice of religion: syllabi, electronic texts, electronic journals, web
sites, bibliographies, liturgies, reference resources, software, etc. The
purpose of the Guide is to encourage and facilitate the incorporation of
electronic resources into teaching.
FREE OPEN ACCESS ELECTRONIC JOURNALS
Apologetics
Archaeology
Biblical Studies
Charismatic / Pentecostal Topics
Christian Education
Church & Church Administration
Church History
Colleges’ and Seminaries’ Publications
Culture, Society & Politics
Citizen [Focus
on the Family]
Denominational Publications
Adventist Today
Evangelism & Discipleship; Leadership
Missions
American
Missionary, the [1878-1901]
Music
Pastoring
Preaching
Religions, non-Christian & Philosophy
Science & Religion
Theology
Youth Ministry
MAPS of BIBLE LANDS
Ancient World
At the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, this
center “exists to promote cartography and geographic information science as
essential disciplines within the field of ancient studies”. Many useful,
high resolution, well documented reproductions of maps from print resources in
the AWMC Map Room including maps of
the Expansion of the Empire in the Age of Augustus, Greece,
the Aegean and Western Asia Minor and Roman
Empire in AD 69.
The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, The
University of Texas at Austin: this comprises reproductions of many old
maps.
Seven maps of the ancient near east (Egypt, Sudan, The
Levant, Syria, Turkey, Iraq, and Iran), locating primary archaeological sites,
modern cities, and river courses set against a plain background. They are
located at the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute.
Atlases
Bible
Geocoding (This uses GoogleEarth to locate every possible place
that is mentioned in the Biblical text.)
Oxford Bible
Atlas. (Adrian Curtis) pub. by Oxford, 2007.
Oxford Guide
to People and Places of the Bible. (Bruce M. Metzger
& Michael D. Coogan, eds. pub. by Oxford, 2004.
The Uttermost
Part of the Earth: A Guide to Places in the Bible. (Losch, Richard
R.) pub. by Eerdmans, 2005.
Israel and Jerusalem – time of Christ
Communities of the Gospels (PBS
site)
Collection of 17 color maps relevant to 1st Century
Israel. Some of these maps are from older, out-of-copyright material; others
are more recent. All are in color.
By Mahlon Smith: an excellent, clear map with hyperlinks
to information on the places it charts.
Taken from The People’s New Testament of 1891.
Palestine in the time of Christ (HyperHistory
online)
By K.C. Hanson: this web site (designed to accompany the
book of the same name by Hanson and Douglas Oakman) features several old maps
includingBethlehem and Nazareth.
Holy Lands, Israel in General
A section in the Luther Seminary’s Bible Tutor: visit this site for simple but useful maps
hyperlinked to more information on the place names they contain.
A useful site covering some of the same material as in
the previous site from the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
An interesting collection of different kinds of old maps
of Jerusalem, real, imaginary and combinations of the two, located at the Osher
Map Library, University of Southern Maine.
Jewish Diaspora
Jewish Diaspora (PBS site)
Paul the Apostle
Done by Nancy A Carter, this contains annotated color
maps in different sizes of The Roman Empire, The Journeys of Paul, The
Mediterranean World during the Time of Paul, and Greece.
Taken from The People’s New Testament of 1891.
Roman Empire
An interactive map of “the Roman Empire at its Greatest
Extent” from the 1907Atlas of Ancient and Classical Geography, adapted
for the Internet by J. Vanderspoel.
Part of Lacus Curtius, Bill Thayer’s web site on Roman
antiquity (University of Chicago). Features several detailed maps made in the
19th Century, including Greece, Asia Minor and Syria.
Roman Empire (PBS site)
Roman Empire (HyperHistory
online)
Spread of Christianity
Spread of Christianity (PBS site)
Done by Glenn Davies, this was scanned and adapted from
Lightfoot, Harmer & Holmes, and The Apostolic Fathers. Users can click on
some points on the map to see more information.
Adolf Von Harnack’s map, digitized by Jay Treat; you can
view the whole or sections of it.
E-BOOKS
Collection of selected classic and current Christian
texts
Alexander, Archibald: Thoughts on Religious Experience
Augustine: Well-Known Works
Augustine: Some
works
Baxter, Richard: The Reformed Pastor
Boettner, Lorraine: Limited Atonement
Bounds, E. M.: Prayer
Brooks, Thomas: Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices
Burroughs, Jeremiah: Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment
Calvin, John: Institutes of the Christian Life
Hodge, Charles: Commentary
on the Epistle to the Ephesians
Luther, Martin: Selected works
Murray, John: Sovereignty of God
Owen, John Glory of Christ
Pink, Arthur W.: Attributes of God
Piper, John: About 80 of his books
are available for download from Desiring God
Poythress, Vern: 13
of his books: Gender-Neutral Bible Controversy;
God-Centered; In the Beginning was the Word; Inerrancy and the Gospels;
Inerrancy and Worldview; Redeeming Science; Redeeming Sociology; Returning
King; Science and Hermeneutics; Shadow of Christ in the Law of Moses; Symphonic
Theology; Understanding Dispensationalists; and What are Spiritual Gifts?
Ryle, J.C. : Holiness
Spurgeon, Charles H.: Treasury of David
much more of his work available at The
Spurgeon Archives
Watson, Thomas: Body of Divinity
Whitefield, George Sermons
COLLECTIONS ON CHRISTIAN TOPICS
Websites of collections of open access e-books
Biblos.com (Bible study tools in many
languages, including Bible versions/translations, an online parallel Bible, and
Greek and Hebrew interlinear Bibles)
Christian Classics Ethereal Library (extensive
collections of classics in Christian literature)
John Piper, a pastor in Minnesota and well-known
published author makes the texts of about 80 of his books, and his sermons
available for free download from his website.
NTS Library [of Christian
theological e-books]
This is a free service provided by Northwestern
Theological Seminary. It contains links to the PDF version of many
Christian books, which can use or download free of charge. Topics
covered are:
Apologetics (7 titles)
Bible Studies (14
titles)
Bible Surveys (4
titles)
Biographies (13
titles)
Christian Doctrine
(26 titles)
Christian Living (24
titles)
Christian Reference
(16 titles)
Christian Counseling
(6 books)
Christian Ethics (2
books)
Evangelism (4 books)
Hermeneutics &
Homiletics (4 books)
Holy Bible – foreign
language translations (12 books)
Ministry & Missions
(10 books)
Miscellaneous (4
books)
Philosophers &
Church Fathers (50 books)
Philosophy (17 books)
Theology (54 books)
Worship (3 books)
This website provides links to many resources and
includes a collection of about 100 of the most famous of the Puritan authors’
books in PDF and HTML formats, some of which are downloadable.
This commercial site, based in Austin, Texas, has been
producing software and electronic books for the Christian market since 1987.
The company operated as NavPress Software for over 10 years before becoming
WORDsearch Corp. in July 2002. WORDsearch offers more than 2,400
volumes of electronic books for Christian pastors, teachers, and laypeople.
Notable creeds and confessions in church history
(Linked sites in underlined)
· Nicene Creed (325 AD)
· Chalcedonian Creed (451 AD)
· Athanasian Creed (c 500 AD)
· Canons
of the Council of Orange (529 AD)
· Augsburg Confession (1530)
· Scottish
Confession of Faith (1560)
· Belgic
Confession of Faith (1561)
· Heidelberg Catechism (1563)
· Tridentine Creed counter-reformation
initiative by the Roman church at the Council of Trent (1563)
· Thirty-nine
Articles of Religion (Anglican 1571)
· First
London Baptist Confession (1644 and 1646)
· Westminster
Confession of Faith (1646)
· Savoy Declaration (1658)
· Helvetic
Consensus Formula (1675)
· Philadelphia
Confession, 1742 [1]
· Carter
Lane Declaration (John Gill's Confession), 1757
· Baptist
Confession of 1689 (Spurgeon's edition) [2]
· Baptist
Faith and Message (1963)
· Abstract of
Principles (Baptist 1859)
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