The theology collection of Marquette University is located in Raynor Memorial Libraries, which
contains over 1.3 million volumes of books, journals, and audiovisual and electronic media in the
Humanities and Social Sciences.
Collection Strengths
The theology collection represents more than 84,000 volumes of books, journals, and audiovisual
and electronic media and is especially strong in Catholic theology, other Christian theology,
Judeo-Christian scripture, and church history. Judaism and Islam are covered significantly, but not
comprehensively. Sacred scriptures of and secondary sources on other world religions are acquired
selectively. The majority of the material collected is in English, although critical and original works in
the major European languages are extensively acquired, and texts in Latin, the biblical languages, and
Arabic are acquired as needed. All time periods are covered, including contemporary religious
movements.
Raynor Memorial Libraries’ Department
of Special Collections and University Archives holds several collections of interest to religion
scholars. The extensive Catholic social action collections include the records of the Catholic Worker
movement, incorporating the papers of Dorothy Day. In addition, the department has acquired the
Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions records and 16 other collections that document the ongoing story of
Christianity in Native North America.
Access to MARQCAT, the Marquette University Libraries
catalog, as well as to other library catalogs
is available via the Libraries’ home page. An extensive collection of Selected Internet Sites is also available from
the Libraries' web site. Computers for browsing the Internet are available in the Libraries, and any
campus computer connected to the campus network also has access to these resources. Convenient
remote access is available to Marquette Card holders.
Electronic Sources
In addition to standard print indexes and reference sources, Raynor Memorial Libraries maintain
a number of indexes and full-text databases useful to religion scholars in electronic
format, available via the Libraries’ Web site or via networked CD-ROMs available on Library
workstations:
ACTA SANCTORUM (Available
off-campus to valid Marquette Card holders only)
An electronic version of the complete texts of the sixty-eight printed volumes
published by the Société des Bollandistes, from the two January volumes published in
1643 to the Propylaeum to December published in 1940. Includes prefatory material,
original texts, critical apparatus, indexes, Biblioteca Hagiographica Latina reference
numbers.
ANCHOR BIBLE DICTIONARY (CD-ROM Available on
Library workstations only)
Includes the six volumes of the print edition, plus index.
ATLA RELIGION DATABASE (Available
off-campus to valid Marquette Card holders only)
Combines Religion Index One, Religion Index Two, Index to Book Reviews in Religion.
Indexes articles from over 600 journals published from 1949 to the present, plus
multi-author books, conference proceedings, and more. Covers 1960 to the present.
ATLASerials DATABASE (Available
off-campus to valid Marquette Card holders only)
The ATLASerials (ATLAS) project provides full-text, searchable access to more than
70 journals. Includes back-files of more than 70 journals in biblical studies, church history,
theology, missiology, history of religions, and other areas of religious studies.
THE BIBLE IN ENGLISH (CD-ROM Available on
Library workstations only)
Contains 21 different English translations of the Bible.
BIBLE WINDOWS (CD-ROM Available on Memorial
Library workstations only)
A Microsoft Windows program for reading, studying and searching the Bible. Includes
Greek, Hebrew, Latin, and English language versions as well as Greek and Hebrew language
reference dictionaries. Also provides links to some related Internet resources.
BIBLEWORKS 6 (CD-ROM Available on Library
workstations only)
BibleWorks is an original languages Bible software program. It includes Greek, Hebrew, and
Septuagint Bibles; translations in a variety of languages; and lexicons, dictionaries, and morphology
tools. For all levels of users, from those preparing Bible studies to those doing in-depth Bible research.
CATHOLIC PERIODICAL AND LITERATURE INDEX (CD-ROM
Available on Library workstations only)
Indexes over 160 periodicals and a wide range of Roman Catholic books, essays, papal
documents, and church promulgations, 1981 to present.
DIGITAL LIBRARY OF CLASSIC PROTESTANT
TEXTS (Available off-campus to valid Marquette Card holders only)
Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts contains all seminal works of the Reformation and
post-Reformation eras (16th and 17th centuries), written by more than 300 Protestant authors:
theological writings, biblical commentaries, confessional documents, and polemical treatises.
DIGITAL LIBRARY OF THE CATHOLIC
REFORMATION (Available off-campus to valid Marquette Card holders only)
Catholic works of the 16th and 17th Centuries. Included are papal and synodal decrees, catechisms and
inquisitorial manuals, biblical commentaries, theological treatises and systems, liturgical writings, saints'
lives, and devotional works.
ENCYCLOPEDIA JUDAICA (Available on Memorial
Library workstations only)
The CD-ROM comprises the 16 volume edition of the printed Encyclopaedia, the Year
Books and the Decennials that followed, and a distinguished series of selected updates,
available only on this CD-ROM. 26,000 entries—more than 15 million words, 1,500
photos.
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ISLAM (Available
off-campus to valid Marquette Card holders only)
Electronic version of the original 9 volume (plus 2 updates) set. Represents over 10
million words and thousands of articles dealing with the ancient, medieval, and modern
periods of Islamic studies. Searches are possible in both Arabic transcription and
English.
FRANCIS (Available off-campus to
valid Marquette Card holders only)
A multi-disciplinary database produced in France that indexes over 4,200 journals in the humanities
and social sciences since 1984. Subject descriptors and the abstracts are in English and French. Includes
bibliographic citations, book chapters, journal articles, conference papers, exhibition catalogs, reports,
legislation, teaching materials, and French dissertations.
INDEX ISLAMICUS (Available off-campus
to valid Marquette Card holders only)
An international bibliography of publications on all aspects of Islam, the Middle East, and the Muslim
world—including accounting, archaeology, architecture, arts, bibliography and scholarship,
economics, education, geography and travel, history, law, libraries, natural and applied sciences,
philosophy, politics and current affairs, religion, social sciences, theology, and zoology. Includes
references from over 24,000 monographs and 172,000 articles in English and other European languages
from 1906-present.
INDEX THEOLOGICUS (CD-ROM Available on Library
workstations only)
Offers at present more than 210,000 bibliographic records for articles in theological and religious
studies periodicals since 1988, in Festschrift publications since 1995, and in congress publications
since 1999. It grows yearly by some 20,000 document descriptions. Some 640 journals from around
the world are regularly reported. In addition, some 200 Festschrift and congress publications are
indexed yearly. The German subject headings have now been translated completely into English so
that it is now possible to do topical searching with English descriptors.
INDEX THOMISTICUS (CD-ROM version available
on Library workstations only. Web
version)
Electronic version of Index Thomisticus, including Aquinas's complete Latin works, plus selected works
by his contemporaries.
LIBRARY OF LATIN TEXTS (Available
off-campus to valid Marquette Card holders only)
Formerly CETEDOC Library of Christian Latin Texts. Full Latin texts of nearly 1000 patristic and medieval
works, inclding the complete works of Augustine and Jerome.
LUTHERS WERKE (Available off-campus to
valid Marquette Card holders only)
Reproduces the Weimar Edition of Martin Luther's complete works in electronic form. The pivotal
Weimar Edition, the first volume of which was published in 1883, consists of over 117 quarto volumes. It
provides a historical-critical tool for theologians, historians, linguists, literary critics.
NEW CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA
(Available off-campus to valid Marquette Card holders only)
The second edition of the New Catholic Encyclopedia appeared in 2003, thoroughly updating and revising
the 1967 publication. The new edition contains almost 12,000 articles in fifteen volumes, as well as
maps, illustrations, tables, photos, and bibliographies. The Encyclopedia contains information on
persons, institutions, cultural phenomena, religions, philosophies, scientific developments, and social
movements affecting the life of the Catholic Church over two millennia. The online version permits
searching by title and author of the entry, as well as by keyword in the full text.
NEW TESTAMENT ABSTRACTS
(Available off-campus to valid Marquette Card holders only)
Includes abstracts of articles from more than 500 periodicals and summaries of hundreds of new books
in the field of New Testament and the New Testament world. Covers 1988-1998.
OLD TESTAMENT ABSTRACTS (Available
off-campus to valid Marquette Card holders only)
The database features indexing and abstracts for journal articles, monographs, multi-author works,
and software related to Old Testament studies. The content of over 450 journals is included with all
abstracts in English, regardless of the language of the original work. Topics covered include antiquities,
archaeology, biblical theology, philology. Dates covered are 1978-present, although the database may
be up to two years behind the print issues.
PAPAL LETTERS/LETTRES PONTIFICALES
(Available off-campus to valid Marquette Card holders only)
Papal Letters, or, Ut per litteras apostolicas provides information on the most varied aspects of
medieval society: church institutions, the clergy, the Papal States, politics, the legal system, taxation,
government and finance, secular society, the religious life, intellectual and artistic life, the economy,
wars, law and order, the environment and natural disasters, and daily life. Includes complete collection
of papal letters from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The database contains approximateld 12
million words and is devoted to the papacies of John XXII, Benedict XII and Urban V. Ut per litteras
apostolicas provides an electronic version of the renowned Registres et lettres des Papes du XIIIe
siècle (32 vols.; Rome, 1883- ); Registres et lettres des Papes du XIVe siècle (48 vols.; Rome, 1899- )
PAST MASTERS (Available
off-campus to valid Marquette Card holders only)
Full text of works by philosophers and theologians, including Anselm, Aquinas, Calvin,
Kierkegaard, Luther, and William of Ockham, in original languages and translations where
available.
PATROLOGIAE GRAECAE (Available
off-campus to valid Marquette Card holders only)
The electronic version of J.P. Migne’s Patrologiae Graecae contains more than 160 volumes of Greek
material, with Latin translations, relevant to the study of the history of the Christian Church from its
beginnings through the Council of Florence in 1439. Comprises a collection of the writings of the church
leaders who wrote in Greek, including both the Eastern "Fathers" and those Western Christians who
wrote before the Latin takeover of the West in the third century.
PATROLOGIA LATINA DATABASE
(Available off-campus to valid Marquette Card holders only)
Full Latin text of all 221 volumes of the first edition of Migne's Patrologiae Cursus Completus, Series
Latina.
PROJECT MUSE (Available off-campus
to valid Marquette Card holders only)
Full-text database of journals primarily in the humanities. Journals particularly relevant to religion and
theology include American Jewish History, Journal of Early Christian Studies, Kennedy Institute of
Ethics Journal, and Modern Judaism. Holdings of these journals begin with 1996.
RELIGIOUS PERIODICALS In ProQuest
(Available off-campus to valid Marquette Card holders only)
Covers popular magazine and scholarly journal articles on religion, 1986 to present.
RELIGIOUS AND THEOLOGICAL
ABSTRACTS (Available off-campus to valid Marquette Card holders only)
Selectively indexed and abstracted articles from over 225 theological periodicals from1958 to the
present.
THESAURUS LINGUAE GRAECAE (CD-ROM Available on
Library workstations only. Web version available
off-campus to valid Marquette Card holders only)
The TLG digital library contains virtually all ancient Greek texts surviving from the period between
Homer (8th century BC) and AD 600, plus historiographical, lexicographic, and scholastic texts from
the period between 600 and 1453. Includes the Septuagint and Greek New Testament. Covers
600 to 1453 AD.
THOMAE AQUINATIS OPERA OMNIA CUM HYPERTEXTIBUS
IN CD-ROM
Electronic version of Index Thomisticus, including Aquinas's complete Latin works,
plus selected works by his contemporaries.
VETUS LATINA (Available off-campus
to valid Marquette Card holders only)
The panoply of Latin biblical texts in use from the second century AD/CE until the time when the
Vulgate became predominant are known as Vetus Latina, or, the Old Latin, Bible. Because there are a
limited number of extant manuscripts that cover the biblical text, the basic sources are biblical citations
or allusions that are found within the writings of the Latin Fathers or Greek patristic authors who were
translated at an early date into Latin. This database contains every citation, listed by book, chapter
and verse of the Bible. The citations can be searched individually or as a whole, following the biblical
structure. Within Vetus Latina the complete repertorium of H.J. Frede (Kirchenschriftsteller :
Verzeichnis und Sigel, Freiburg, 1995) and its updates can be consulted online,.
Special Services
This brief listing may be explored further in other areas of the Web site, but an enumeration of
key privileges and services includes:
Semester borrowing of monographic materials. Graduate
loan rules.
Open 104 hours per week during regular semesters, study space and computer access 24/7. Library Hours
Reference staff available for walk-up, phone, e-mail, virtual or appointment consultation. AskUs!
Easy off-campus access to electronic journals, databases, and other e-resources. Accessing Library Resources from
Home
Free interlibrary borrowing of books and articles. Interlibrary Loan.
Easy access to nearby
research libraries and in-person borrowing via InfoPass program
Self-service photocopiers with key card convenience
Private study
carrels for graduate students by application.
Modern teaching labs available for groups or classes by appointment
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