Pastoral Studies

The editions at the Christian Classics Ethereal library are based on books that are public domain in the United States. However, they may have copyrighted introductions, cover art, and other special contents, and they are based on XML markup copyrighted by the Christian Classics Ethereal Library. A few books are under another publisher's copyright and are used by permission; these are noted on the book information page.

These English translations are all out of copyright, but were not included in the 38 volume collection of Ante-Nicene, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers.

The Internet History Sourcebooks Project, a collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly for educational use. Primary sources are available here primarily for use in high-school and university/college courses.

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The Virtual World Project presents interactive virtual tours of archaeological sites in Israel and Jordan. The project is designed to aid in the teaching and study of antiquity.

Contains Christian texts held in the public domain.

The online version of the Dumbarton Oaks Hagiography Database, originally released in 1998 as a set of floppy disks, has two sections. The introduction contains general information about the project and bio-bibliographical introductions to each of the saints of the eighth to tenth centuries included in the project. The database itself is divided into three sections: a list of saints, a list of authors, and a search of citations.

Fordham University Internet Medieval Sourcebook on Saints' Lives. This page's goal is to present ancient, Byzantine, and medieval hagiographic original texts - in translation and otherwise - along with basic data on the cult of saints. Modern Christians, especially Orthodox Christians, still read such lives for their religious value. They will find some of these texts profitable for that goal. But the emphasis here is on the historical understanding of the texts and the cult of saints.

Contains papal and other official documents of the Roman Catholic Church.

A collection of resources about Thomas Aquinas published in English.

Taken from Mead's translations, which are in the public domain.

The interdisciplinary seminar on the Jewish Roots of Eastern Christian Mysticism is designed as the internet version of an ongoing research seminar of graduate students at the department of theology of Marquette University. The seminar is directed by Andrei Orlov, a professor of Judaism and Christianity in Antiquity (Marquette University).

The seminar and its website are directed by Silviu Bunta, an Assistant Professor of Second Temple Judaism and Christian origins at the University of Dayton. The seminar is interdisciplinary and focuses on topics related to ascetical and mystical traditions of ancient Judaism and Christianity.