CH100 - Church History

This guide provides additional resources you may find helpful as you take this course. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask your librarian!

This course has materials on course reserve. To see the full list of resources and their current availability click the link below:

Course Reserves for CH100 - Church History

Course reserves are available at the Circulation Desk. You may check out up to three items at a time for a three hour loan period. Reserves may be renewed up to two times if they are not on hold for another patron. If you check out a reserve within one hour of the library's closing, you may keep it overnight and return it within one hour of opening the following day. Overdue reserve items accumulate a fine of $1 per hour.

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• Start with a keyword search. This will return a broad list of results.
• Narrow your search using the limiters on the left side of the page. Possiblities include:
  • Availability in library collection (Discovery search feature)
  • Type of publication
  • Date published
  • Subject
  • Language
• When you look at a record for a resource that looks particularly useful, click on the hyperlinked subject headings in the record to launch new searches for those subject headings. This may return additional resources that didn't come up in your first keyword search.
• Keep trying different keyword and subject searches as you go along.

• Christian Classics Ethereal Library
• New Advent
• Church History guide from St. Michael's College, University of Toronto
• History of Christianity guide from Pitts Theology Library, Emory University

Is information or a source good? The CRAAP Test can help you decide!

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• EBSCO Discovery Service
  Search our entire collection (print, digital, databases, subscriptions, and more) in one powerful search.
• Atla Religion Database with AtlaSerials PLUS
  Atla RDB with AtlaSerials PLUS combines the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion with Atla's online colection of major religion and theology journals. The Atla Religion Database includes more than 620,000 article citations from more than 1,746 journals (575 currently indexed), more than 250,000 essay citations from over 18,000 multi-author works, more than 570,000 book review citations, and a growing number of multimedia citations. In AtlaSerials PLUS, full text is provided for more than 380,000 electronic articles and book reviews. This database is produced by Atla, a membership organization of collectors and connectors in religion and theology.
• Religion and Philosophy Collection
  This collection provides extensive coverage of such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. With more than 300 full text journals, the Religion and Philosophy Collection is an essential tool for researchers and students of theology and philosophical studies.

• Quotes and Paraphrases: Use the Chicago footnote form to indicate where the quote, paraphrase, or idea came from. This is the form that arranges the source information into a sentence. Because this is a presentation and how it looks is important, place your citations in their own text box, use a smaller font size and place it near the bottom of the slide. 
• Images and Photographs: It is crucial that you credit where your images came from, too! Place the photographer's name (if available) and a URL next to the photograph. This can be done by putting the text in a text box and placing it next to the image like a caption.

When using Chicago Notes-Bibliography style, citations are formatted one way for footnotes and in a slightly different way for the bibliography. 

Footnotes read like sentences that appear at the bottom of the pages of your work. Notice that there are commas separating the parts of the citation and a period appears only at the end.

A Bibliography is a comprehensive listing of all the sources used throughout a document. Bibliography entries are arranged alphabetically by the author's last name or by title when there isn't an author. Each entry reads like a paragraph. Notice that there are periods separating the parts of the citation. For longer entries that take up more than one line on the page, use a hanging indent to format each entry. Entries are single spaced with an empty line between each entry.

An Annotated Bibliography is a bibliography that includes 1-3 paragraphs about each source. These paragraphs summarize the main points, assess and evaluate the author's argument, and/or reflect on its contribution to the scholarly conversation.

The annotations, or paragraphs about the source, should be fully indented underneath the bibliographic entry.

For more information and examples, see the Purdue OWL site.

 View or Download a 3-page PDF quick guide to Chicago Notes-Bibliography style  

More resources and information about citation generators is available in our Chicago Manual of Style guide.

Long URLs can be difficult to work with in a presentation. Try one of these URL shortening services:

• Bitly
• TinyURL

Create a Hanging Indent in Microsoft Word

Create a Hanging Indent in Google Docs

Microsoft PowerPoint is the presentation application of the Microsoft Office suite and Microsoft 365. Different versions of Office/PowerPoint have different features, so PowerPoint 2013 looks slightly different from PowerPoint 2016 or PowerPoint in Microsoft 365. Keep this in mind when you are looking at tutorials and help guides. A PowerPoint presentation is built with individual slides. There are multiple default templates that can help you position your text and images on the slide (title slide, heading with text, blank slide, etc.). 

Google Slides is Google's answer to PowerPoint. All Lancaster Theological Seminary students have access to Google Slides via Google Drive. Within Google Drive click the "New" button and choose Google Slides from the drop down menu. Like PowerPoint, a Google Slides presentation is built with individual slides. These presentations can be downloaded in Microsoft PowerPoint format and opened in PowerPoint. Likewise, PowerPoint files can be uploaded to Google Drive and converted to Google Slides format. As a cloud application, Google Slides requires an Internet connection to access your file and save your changes. 

If you use a Mac computer or an Apple iPhone or iPad, you may be familiar with Keynote, the Apple iWork presentation application. Keynote is also available as an application in iCloud, and now anyone can create a free iCloud account to use Apple's Pages, Numbers, and Keynote applications. Like PowerPoint and Slides, Keynote presentations are built with individual slides. The application is designed with Apple's distinct touch and those who enjoy that aesthetic will likely enjoy using this app for creating presentations.

If you're looking for a presentation application that thinks outside the slide, then you're looking for Prezi. Prezi is a cloud-based application that starts with a canvas instead of individual slides. Content is positioned on the canvas and the presentation takes a charted course through frames of the content, panning, zooming, and rotating as necessary. Designing presentations in Prezi that don't make your audience nauseous takes some practice. But don't let that discourage you. Once you get the hang of it, you'll be delivering memorable three-dimensional presentations that will make your audience forget about slides. Prezis can be presented via the Prezi website or downloaded for offline presentation situations.

• Citing sources in a presentation is just as important as in a paper. Identify the source of quotes, photos/images, statistics, etc. fully enough that the viewer can trace it. Details to include are: creator's name, title or URL of source, date and/or other identifying information. If using a lot of sources, a complete bibliography can also be added to the end of the presentation.
• As in most things - Keep It Simple! Stay away from flashy animations, transitions, sound effects, and more.
• Dark text on lighter backgrounds is easier to read when projected on a screen than light text on darker backgrounds
• Your content is the star, not your background. Backgrounds should not distract or take away from what is displayed on them.
• Remember that not everyone sees color the same way. Avoid combining reds and greens that are similar shades. This article goes into detail about choosing colorblind-friendly palettes.