[Linux4christians] Reference

[Michael Bradley, Jr.]

                                                             JMJ + OBT

It looks like an interesting and potentially useful tool. Thanks for  
the link!

Another freely accessible on-line Christian encyclopedia that has  
served me as an invaluable reference tool/source is . . .


          The Catholic Encyclopedia (1917 edition)

          http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/


In addition to the encyclopedia, New Advent hosts a freely accessible  
"edition" of the works of the Early Church Fathers, translated into  
English:


          http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/

          (the list is in alphabetical, not chronological, order)


There is also a freely accessible English translation of the St.  
Thomas Aquinas' "Summa Theologica":


          http://www.newadvent.org/summa/


New Advent also hosts a freely accessible edition of the Holy Bible,  
known as the "Douay Rheims" English translation (it's actually the  
"Challoner revision" of the "DR" to be precise); this is an older  
translation which is still popular among many English-speaking  
Catholic Christians, though a number of modern English translations  
are more frequently to be found in Catholic homes and hands these days:


          http://www.newadvent.org/bible/


Finally, the site also has a freely accessible "Library" section,  
which hosts copies of historic documents issued by the Catholic  
Church (again in alphabetical, not chronological, order):


          http://www.newadvent.org/library/




It would be awesome if the site maintainer/owner would one day  
transition the all of the content to a "wiki" powered system, even if  
only so readers could note "typos" (much of the transcription work  
from the original printed copies was done by volunteers who sent the  
completed entries by e-mail to the webmaster) and OCR errors that  
they come across when perusing the articles -- I've found more than a  
few dozen myself. I've communicate with the man who put it all  
together, but at this point he doesn't want to and/or can't afford to  
spend the time on such a project.

But even still, it is, in my opinion, a great resource. Enjoy!

While I'm at it, another great freely accessible on-line Christian  
learning-tool/resource is the following edition of the modern  
universal Catechism of the Catholic Church (often abbreviated CCC;  
this is more precisely the "second edition, english translation"  
published in 1997):


          http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc.htm


The site has its own, fairly useful, search engine. Another neat way  
to search through it is to plug the following into Google:


          site:scborromeo.org inurl:ccc "my search term(s)"


The hyperlinked index is also quite useful (actually, it's _really_  
useful):


          http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/index/a.htm



In Christ,

Michael Bradley, Jr.

--
Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life . . ." (John  
14:6)

My home on the Net ::
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IC XC NIKA



On Oct 6, 2005, at 11:06 AM, Kevin Worthington wrote:

> /comes out of lurk mode
>
> Hello everybody. I just came across a Biblical reference site  
> that's set up like Wikipedia. It's called Theopedia, located here:  
> http://www.theopedia.com/Main_Page
>
> I hope you find it useful.
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