Subject Holdings

The seminary libraries in the open stacks of the Branch Library of Theology are ordered as follows:

  • Journal Display Shelves (EG): Here you can find all unbound journals of the current volume. Print journals can only be used on-site.
  • General (EG): This section contains reference books as well as introductory literature and periodicals on the entirety of Theology. The holdings on the ground floor (EG) are principally not for issue.
  • Religious Studies (EG)
  • Church History (1. OG): Sources, periodicals and research literature on Church History are shelved here including Clerical Contemporary History and literature on Denominational Studies.
  • Coptica (1. OG): contains sources and research literature in the field of Coptic Studies.
  • Systematic Theology (2. OG): stores sources and literature on Dogmatic Theology and Ethics.
  • Contemporary Philosophy (2.OG): contains editions and secondary literature on the most important contemporary philosophers.
  • Missiology (2. OG): These holdings consist of literature on Missiology including contextual theologies.
  • Practical Theology (2. OG): contains literature on all fields of Practical Theology
  • Religious Sociology (2. OG): encloses classics of Social Sciences and sociological schools, literature on Religious Sociology, on Clerical and Community Sociology, on Church Development and Ecclesiology, as well as on Church in society.
  • Christian Archaeology and Art (2. OG): contains inventories, catalogues, excavation reports and other sources as well as secondary literature on Archaeology and Art from all eras of church history.
  • Library on Church and Judaism (2. OG): contains Judaica as well as literature on Judaeo-Christian dialogue including research on the Holocaust.
  • Old Testament (3. OG): sources and accounts of research pertaining to the Old Testament
  • New Testament (3. OG): sources and accounts of research pertaining to the New Testament
  • Classical Studies (3. OG): contains Greek and Roman cultural history, literary studies and history (focus on source output)