Disclaimer: Some links jump to outside sites for further information on the Bible, interpretations, the canon, translations, manuscripts, resources, and other perspectives. Links do not constitute an endorsement by the Women's Division of the information on other web sites. External web sites offer us diverse perspectives; afford us an opportunity to compare them to United Methodist positions; and, encourage us to critically analyze the issues raised by The Bible: the Book that Bridges the Millennia web pages.
Abbeys & Cathedrals in England and Wales. An introduction to Britain's 48 Anglican cathedrals, along with a complete listing and some photos.
The Fresco. General information about frescoes and how they are made, examples of frescoes, with an emphasis on the Renaissance (includes the Sistene Chapel), links.
How to Make a Fresco. Includes a history of frescoes.
The Sistene Chapel (selected links to the vast Christus Rex web site).
Ukrainian Icons, 15th-16th Centuries
Charles Wesley: Hymns in the Current United Methodist Hymnal
John Wesley: A Collection of Hymns (1876). These hymns are from A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People Called Methodists by John Wesley, 1889. Not only Charles Wesley's hymns but those written by others are included.
Wesley's Directions for Singing
The Literary Boom: Forms of Early Religious Vernacular Texts in England (c. 1475-1570). This paper hopes to illustrate the initial spurt of Protestant literature in all of its various forms during the sixteenth century.
Medieval and Renaissance Book Production - Printed Books by Richard W. Clement. As the fifteenth century progressed, so too increased the pressure on the book trade to produce ever larger quantities of books.... Indeed many monastic scriptoria, long dormant, found renewed life in meeting the growing demand for books.
The Tyndale New Testament (the British Museum). These New Testaments were shipped in bales of cloth down the Rhine, and across into various ports in England. Orchestrated by Cardinal Wolsey, a campaign to eradicate `Lutheranism' in England included the thorough seeking out and confiscating of Tyndale's writings, and the punishing of those who had them. Includes a photo of a page from the Bible and background.
Printing: Renaissance and Reformation (University of South Carolina). An informative pictorial history of printing. "Island 1" has information about 3 biblical manuscripts done by hand. "Island 5" has information about early English language Bible, Martin Luther, and Malleus maleficarum (Hammer of the Witches)
Commentaries on the Bible. The translated texts.
John Calvin . A short biography.
Decree Concerning the Canonical Scriptures (complete translated text)
Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536) (Catholic Encyclopedia). Biographical information, comments about his and Luther's interpretation of scripture, his role in the Reformation and more from a Roman Catholic perspective.
Erasmus (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Biographical information.
Erasmus Text Project. Background, translated texts, and pictures of drawings and paintings of Erasmus.
What Today's Christian Needs to Know about the Greek New Testament (Trinitarian Bible Society). An essay illustrating the arguments for using the Textus Receptus, edited by Erasmus and others, rather than the Critical Text. The King James Version, for example, used the Textus Receptus and the New Revised Standard Version the Critical Text.
The 95 Theses. Disputation of Doctor Martin Luther on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences, 1517
Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians
LUTHER BIBEL: Die Bibel nach der Übersetzung Martin Luthers in der revidierten Fassung von 1984. Luther's Bible in the German.
"Preface to the Letter of St. Paul to the Romans"
Selected Works by Project Wittenburg. Works of Martin Luther.
A Critical Edition of William Tyndale's Exposition of 1 John with notes and glossary. In the original sixteenth-century English (very academic site).
The Life and Story of the True Servant and Martyr of God from the 1684 edition of Foxe's (Fox's) Book of Martyrs. Opens with these words: "We have now to enter into the story of the good martyr of God, William Tyndale; which William Tyndale, as he was a special organ of the Lord appointed, and as God's mattock to shake the inward roots and foundation of the pope's proud prelacy, so the great prince of darkness, with his impious imps, having a special malice against him, left no way unsought how craftily to entrap him, and falsely to betray him, and maliciously to spill his life, as by the process of his story here following may appear."
William Tyndale. Tyndale translated much of the Bible into English from the original Greek and Hebrew sources. (Wycliffe had worked from Jerome's Latin 'Vulgate'.) In doing so he gave the English language many of its best known phrases. Much of his work appears, unchanged but unacknowledged in the 'Authorized' (or 'King James') version of the Bible.
John Wesley: Holiness of Heart and Life (United Methodist Women's Spiritual Growth Study). Lots of on-line resources, including information about women and early Methodism.
How to Read the Bible: John Wesley outlines six steps. (UMW Resource)
John Wesley and Spiritual Disciplines: Works of Piety. The main examples are prayer, searching the Scriptures; (which implies reading, hearing, and meditating thereon), and receiving the Lord's Supper. (UMW Resource)
Letter to William Wilberforce on Slavery. John Wesley's last letter with drawing of him writing it. (UMW Resource)
Native Americans and John Wesley (UMW Resource)
Notes on the Bible (Old and New Testament Commentaries)
Sermons 141 sermons by the founder of Methodism. (GBGM Resource)
Fire and Ice: Puritan and Reformed Writings. Writings by and about them.
A Gallery of Photographs. Images of people, places, and objects from United Methodist History (by the General Commission of Archives and History, The United Methodist Church)
The Protestant Reformation. Lots of links to original documents.
The Reformation. It is impossible to understand the time without taking a look at this. Religion was not a matter of personal preference or opinion, it was the very basis of society. Includes a table that compares the key doctrinal issues separating the Protestants (specifically Calvinists) from the Catholics.
The Protestant Reformation and European Jews. A brief readable history, part of a larger Jewish history timeline written in a popular style.
The Reformation and Counter-Reformation by James Jackson. A short readable history which includes information about the church and art.
Reformations: From the Fall of Constantinople to the End of the Seventeenth Century by Maxine Clarke Beach (UMW Resource) with photograph of Galileo's telescope.
Sixteenth Century Renaissance English Literature: Background Information. Lots of links, including general ones on the Reformation and the Renaissance.
Witchcraft in Salem Village: Intersections of Religion and Society
Witchcraft Trials in Salem, 1692. Part of the "Famous American Trial Series" on the University of Missouri-Kansas City Law School web site by Doug Linder, Professor of Law. Photos, articles, and historical documents. Lots of interesting material.
Brief Timeline of American Literature and Events Pre-1620 to 1850 (Gonzaga University)
A Brief Timeline of The United Methodist Church and the American Heritage (by the General Commission of Archives and History, The United Methodist Church)
British Religion and Philosophy in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: A Chronology
Church History Timeline: First Century through Fifteenth Century (Roman Catholic perspective)
Church History Timeline (Eastern Orthodox perspective)
Renaissance and Reformation Chronology (1260-1648)
Salem Witchcraft Trials: A Chronology (1629-1992)
Slavery and Religion in America: A Timeline 1440-1866 (Internet Public Library). An excellent timeline with pictures
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"Lots of Links to Biblical Resources" has been compiled by the Rev. Nancy A. Carter, Ph.D. Please send suggestions and corrections to her at ncarter@gbgm-umc.org. Dr. Carter has an M.Div. from Union Theological Seminary in New York City, where she won the Hitchcock Award in Church History. Her Ph.D. is in literary studies (literature and theology) from American University in Washington, D.C. She has authored books for church laity including Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew: Who Do You Say That I Am?, a spiritual growth study for United Methodist Women written with Bishop Leontine T. C. Kelly.
