About 24 minutes
"Bear ye one another's burdens." A Plain Sermon on the Lancashire Distress — Reading Companion
Theology
5,385 recorded words. Selected by the catalog's stored reading-time estimate.
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A voice from the fire — Inside the Classic
Theology
6,658 recorded words. Selected by the catalog's stored reading-time estimate.
View Gutenberg source #64731About 34 minutes
The Believer Not Ashamed of the Gospel — A Reader’s Guide
Theology
7,616 recorded words. Selected by the catalog's stored reading-time estimate.
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A Public Domain Digital Library of Religion and Theology Texts
This catalogue presents ninety public-domain books focused on religion and theology, drawn from Project Gutenberg. The collection spans sacred texts, doctrinal works, sermons, and comparative studies, with categories that overlap and complement each other. Readers can enter through a specific theme—such as the relationship between faith and society, or the encounter between Christianity and other traditions—or trace how a single author, like Charles Kingsley or Thomas Aquinas, develops ideas across multiple volumes. Chronological reading reveals shifts in rhetorical style and argument from the sixteenth century to the early twentieth. Each record includes full bibliographic details, keywords, and a catalogue note to guide selection.
90 public-domain works93 represented authorsSource-attributed catalogue records
Religion & Theology — Editor’s Selection
Newly Catalogued by PUHBE
The works of the Rev. Isaac Watt...
In Theology
Physico-theology — Story, Settin...
In Sacred ...
Does civilization need religion?...
In Theology
Religion and the rise of capital...
In Theology
The mutual influence of Christia...
In Theology
The Everlasting Man — Context an...
In Sacred ...
Welcome to the ransomed; or, Dut...
In Theology
Toleration and other essays — Ke...
In Theology
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