Books: Search the library catalog for ORU holdings. For books held elsewhere, look in WorldCat (FirstSearch or opens new windowopen access). Another way to locate books is to browse the B Library of Congress class numbers either by doing a call number search for the desired classification in the library catalog or by browsing the B section in the Reference area or in the Main collection(where books that may be checked out are shelved).

Ebooks: The ORU Library provides access to three major ebook collections: eBook Collection (EBSCOhost), eBook Religion Collection (EBSCOhost), 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.

• For more on How to Find Books and ebooks, use the library guide with that name.
• For more on how to use and download ebooks, see the ebooks@ORU guide.

Subject Specific Ebook Collections

Great Theologians:

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

Great Theologians Series:

• Anselm of Canterbury: The Beauty of Theology
• Athanasius: A Theological Introduction
• Karl Barth: Theologian of Christian Witness
• Thomas F Torrance: Theologian of the Trinity

Other Selected Titles:

• Biographical Dictionary of Christian Theologians
• Handbook of Evangelical Theologians
• Fifty Key Christian Thinkers
• Fifty Key Medieval Thinkers
• Key Thinkers in Christianity
• The Student's Companion to the Theologians
• Twentieth-Century Catholic Theologians: From Neoscholasticism to Nuptial Mysticism

• The Church at the Turning Points of History
• The Crisis of Christendom
• Historical Theology: An Introduction to a History of Christian Thought
• A History of Christian Thought
• Theological Turning Points: Major Issues in Christian Thought
• Turning Points: Decisive Moments in the History of Christianity
• Turning Points in the History of American Evangelicalism

• Are miraculous gifts for today?: four views
• Baptism: three views
• Biblical hermeneutics: five views
• Christian faith and social justice: five views
• Christian spirituality: five views of sanctification
• Christianity and the postmodern turn: six views
• Divine foreknowledge: four views
• Evaluating the church growth movement: 5 views
• Evangelical theological method: five views
• Faith and reason three views
• Five views on apologetics
• Five views on biblical inerrancy
• Five views on law and Gospel
• Five views on sanctification
• Four views of youth ministry and the church: inclusive congregational, preparatory, missional, strategic
• Four views on Christian spirituality
• Four views on divine providence
• Four views on eternal security
• Four views on hell
• Four views on moving beyond the Bible to theology
• Four views on salvation in a pluralistic world
• Four views on the Apostle Paul
• Four views on the historical Adam
• Four views on the role of works at the final Judgment
• Four views on the spectrum of evangelicalism
• From exorcism to ecstasy: eight views of baptism
• The G3n3sis debate: three views on the days of creation
• God & morality: four views
• Grace, faith, and free will: contrasting views of salvation: Calvinism and Arminianism
• The historical Jesus: five views
• Homosexuality and the Bible: two views
• How Jewish is Christianity?: two views on the Messianic movement
• Justification: five views
• The Lord's Supper: five views
• The matriarchs of Genesis: seven women, five views
• The meaning of the millennium: four views
• The nature of the atonement: four views
• Only one way? three Christian responses to the uniqueness of Christ in a pluralistic world
• Perspectives on election: five views
• Perspectives on Israel and the church: fourviews
• Perspectives on our struggle with sin: threeviews of Romans 7
• Perspectives on Spirit baptism: five views
• Perspectives on the doctrine of God: four views
• Perspectives on the extent of the atonement: threeviews
• Predestin ation & free will: four views of divine sovereignty & human freedom
• Psychology & Christianity: five views
• Remarriage after divorce in today's church: threeviews
• Revelation, four views: a parallel commentary
• Science and Christianity: an introduction to the issues
• Show them no mercy: four views on God and Canaanite genocide
• Three views on creation and evolution
• Three views on Eastern Orthodoxy and evangelicalism
• Three views on the millennium and beyond
• Three views on the New Testament use of the Old Testament
• Three views on the origins of the Synoptic Gospels
• Three views on the Rapture: pre; mid; or post-Tribulation?
• Three views on the Rapture: pretribulation, prewrath, or posttribulation
• Two views of hell: a biblical & theological dialogue
• Two views of virtue: absolute relativism and relative absolutism
• Two views on the doctrine of the Trinity
• Two views on women in ministry
• Understanding four views on baptism
• Understanding spiritual warfare: four views
• What about those who have never heard?: three views on the destiny of the unevangelized
• Women in ministry: four views
• Youth ministry in the 21^st century: five views