There are many free e-resources available for you to use. Not all of them are trustworthy, so you must be careful. We have listed them according to how relevant they are and how much we trust them.
Bible Study Tools
- Biblegateway. This is a great website for comparing Bible versions (150 versions available) or searching for a word or phrase in the Bible. It also provides free access to many of the commentaries, including those from the IVP New Testament Commentary series.
- The STEP Bible: A really powerful tool provided by Tyndale House. You can compare versions, see repeated words, and easily access the original languages, even if you don’t know them!
- Bishop: Sword Project: A powerful, free app for your phone.
- Bible Study Tools: You need to pay to use most of the tools on this site. However the Bible dictionaries are free to use. The best is ‘Baker’s Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology.’ (At the bottom of each article it even tells you how to reference it!)
Articles and e-Books – Recommended
Here is a list of websites that offer free theological and/or practical articles and e-books. While we cannot be sure that each will agree with the NETS Statement of Faith, we are confident that most of them will.
- The Carson Centre Free E-Commentaries: This site has commentaries on every book of the Bible.
- The Gospel Coalition Africa: A great, reliable and growing collection of articles, videos and podcasts from African theologians for Africans. (Click on ‘Explore’ in the top left corner.)
- The Gospel Coalition America: A useful site with a lot of great resources. One of those resources is the journal Themelios. A good journal, but a bit difficult to search.
- NetACT Free Resources: A list of even more free, African resources, like this list here!
- Monergism: A great, usually reliable collection of thousands of articles, mp3s and books (most books are older classics, but there are also more recent resources – see especially here).
- Christian Study Library: A South African collection of articles organised by topic, both theological and practical.
- Desiring God: Thousands of resources including free pdf versions of John Piper’s books.
- African Theology Worldwide: This links to many different topics of Theology, written by Africans.
- Centre for Public Christianity: Excellent articles, videos and more that give a Christian perspective on contemporary life. E.g. Christianity’s historical evidence, its impact on the world, and what it means to live as a Christian today.
- John Frame and Vern Poythress Books: Free books from two fantastic scholars. Poythress’ commentary on Revelation is simple and good.
- Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Theses Collection: A collection of theses written by students of SBTS, a reliable seminary.
Articles – Less Sure
The following sites also have many free articles. We have categorised them under a different heading as we cannot be so sure that the articles will agree with the NETS Statement of Faith. Be discerning as you choose which articles to use.
- Tyndale House Search: A collection of good quality, free, but older journal articles. Under ‘Media Type’ select ‘PDF.’ (This acts as a search function for ‘Theology on the Web’ below.)
- Theology on the Web: A collection of mostly older journal articles on all sorts of topics. You can search for articles on a particular Bible book. But otherwise it is not easy to search. Use the site above (Tyndale House) to search ‘Theology on the Web.’
- Acta Theologica: A free journal.
- Conspectus: A free journal from SATS.
- Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies (HTS): A free journal.
- African Theological Journal for Church and Society: A free journal.
- Stellenbosh Theological Journal: A free journal.
- The Nigerian Journal of Christian Studies (NJCS): A free journal.
- The Ghana Journal of Religion and Theology: A free journal.
- Theological Book Network: This African site has links to many other resources.
- Regent University Free Resources List: A list of free online journals.
- Biblical Studies: Another collection of articles.
- Open Digital Theological Library: Another data base of articles.
- Globethics: Millions of articles on ethical issues. Not necessarily Christian.
- Directory of Open Access Journals: A number of open access journals and articles are available here.
- Google Scholar: Another repository of articles. Some will be very good, others not so much…
- EBSCO Essentials: This is the free version of the best journal and e-book source. But this is the free version… Again, some will be great, some not so much…
- JSTOR Open Access: Many free articles, but they will be of varying quality and reliability.
- Christian Worldview: This site provides a list of other sites that all offer free e-
- Christian Study Library: This site provides articles (not journal articles) on all kinds of topics. They range from popular level through to relatively technical.
Classic Books
These sites have many classic works, Christian and Secular, from before Christ through to the early modern period.
- Post Reformation Digital Library: Writings from the post-reformation to early modern period.
- Christian Classics Ethereal Library: Many classic books and writings.
- The Digital Scriptorium: Many classic and some modern books, both Christian and otherwise.
- Internet archive has many older books, Christian and otherwise.
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