THEO 310: Christian Theology I

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The best book review resources for this class:
search tips ATLA: Supports religious and theological scholarship in graduate education and faculty research. Includes a full range of ... citations to ...book reviews from three ATLA print indexes: Religion Index One, Religion Index Two, and Index to Book Reviews in Religion. print: 1974-present (Reference) | online: 1949-present
search tips JSTOR: Full-text Scholarly Journals dating back to the 19th century. Content from current 3-5 years not available.

Consult general print book review resources

search tips Book Review Digest: Citations and abstracts. Print: 1905-present | Online: 1983-present
Subjects: English language fiction and non-fiction books (except textbooks, government publications, and technical books in law and the sciences). To be included a nonfiction book must have been reviewed 2+ times in selected periodicals. Fiction books have been reviewed 4+ times.
  Book Review Index: Citations only. Print: 1965-present
Subjects: Adult fiction and non-fiction, poetry & songbooks books for children, periodicals, audio books and electronic editions if also available in print. Contains a higher percentage of published book reviews than Book Review Digest.

Consult general online resources

Have a citation from a print source? See if we have full-text of the journal. Do we have the journal in print?

search tips Wilson Select: Full text articles in science, humanities, education and business
online: 1994-present
search tips Periodical Abstracts: Bibliographic citations and concise abstracts from 2,040+ general and academic journals (1987 to present). Contains records for transcripts of significant segments of 80+ news- and lifestyle-oriented t.v. and radio programs. Coverage includes: business, economics, literature, psychology, religion, and women's studies. Updated Weekly. online: 1987-present (partial full-text)
search tips Article First: Index of articles from the contents pages of 12,000+ journals (1990 to present). Describes one article, news story, letter, or other item from a journal in each record. Subjects include: business, science, humanities, social science, medicine technology, and popular culture. Updated Daily.
online: 1990-present (partial full-text)
search tips Academic Search Premier: Contains full text reviews ranging from peer-reviewed journals to areas of study including: Biological sciences, economics, communications, computer sciences, engineering, language, arts and literature, medical sciences, and women's studies.
online: 1985-present

Need more sources? Consult specialized databases that index professional journals

Professional journals often contain reviews of new, significant works in that area:

search tips ATLAS : Full-text articles on religion and theology which supports religious and theological scholarship in graduate education and faculty research. ATLAS contains the full text of thousands of journal articles and book reviews from international titles and multi-author works in the field of religion from over 50 years.
 

Guide to Social Science & Religion: Indexes Nazarene publications!
print: 1972-2001 (Reference) | online: 1993-
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Philosophers Index: The Philosopher's Index provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields. It covers the areas of ethics, aesthetics, epistemology, logic, and metaphysics as well as material on the philosophy of disciplines, such as law, religion, science, history, and education.
print: 1992 (Reference) | online: 1990-present

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Philosophers Index

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