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Ebooks: The ORU Library provides access to three major ebook collections: eBook Collection (EBSCOhost), ebook Religion Collection, and Ebook Central (ProQuest). The EBSCO ebook collection has over 13,000 titles related to religion and over 7,600 related to psychology and sociology while all 8,390 titles in the other EBSCO ebook collection are related to religion. Also, Ebook Central has over 10,000 titles in religion, 6,900 in philosophy, and 3,000 in psychology.

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• For more on how to use and download ebooks, see the ebooks@ORU guide.

Great Theologians

• opens new windowThe First Christian Theologians: An Introduction to Theology in the Early Church
• opens new windowThe Medieval Theologians
• opens new windowThe Reformation Theologians: An Introduction to Theology in the Early Modern Period
• opens new windowThe Pietist Theologians: An Introduction to Theology in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
• opens new windowThe Modern Theologians: An Introduction to Christian Theology since 1918

Great Theologians Series

• opens new windowAnselm of Canterbury: The Beauty of Theology
• opens new windowAthanasius: A Theological Introduction
• opens new windowKarl Barth: Theologian of Christian Witness
• opens new windowThomas F Torrance: Theologian of the Trinity

Other Selected Titles

• opens new windowBiographical Dictionary of Christian Theologians
• opens new windowHandbook of Evangelical Theologians
• opens new windowFifty Key Christian Thinkers
• opens new windowFifty Key Medieval Thinkers
• opens new windowKey Thinkers in Christianity
• opens new windowThe Student's Companion to the Theologians
• opens new windowTwentieth-Century Catholic Theologians: From Neoscholasticism to Nuptial Mysticism

• opens new windowThe Church at the Turning Points of History
• opens new windowThe Crisis of Christendom
• opens new windowHistorical Theology: An Introduction to a History of Christian Thought
• opens new windowA History of Christian Thought
• opens new windowTheological Turning Points: Major Issues in Christian Thought
• opens new windowTurning Points: Decisive Moments in the History of Christianity
• opens new windowTurning Points in the History of American Evangelicalism