Alexander Street publishes two of the most ambitious and highly regarded databases for scholars of history, theology, political science, and sociology—The Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts and The Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation. For any institution that engages in the study of the religious and social upheavals of the 16th and 17th centuries, these collections, in their original languages, provide an exhaustive range of important resources. Along with the opera omnia of major thinkers, such as Luther and Calvin, are works by hundreds of other writers of the Reformation and post-Reformation eras. Essential resources for anyone interested in the development of Western culture, these are foundational collections that will be used in many instructional programs, year after year.

The Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts
A uniquely exhaustive resource for historians, theologians, political scientists, and sociologists studying the religious and social upheavals of the 16th and 17th centuries, this comprehensive electronic collection gives researchers immediate, Web-based access to more than 1,200 works from the Reformation and post-Reformation eras. These works include the theological writings of more than 300 Protestant authors, as well as a wide range of confessional documents, biblical commentaries, polemical treatises, and Bible translations.

In a time when scholars are mining previously unexamined content and forging connections between formerly discrete disciplines and traditions, this fully-searchable electronic collection gives researchers instant access to the full range of authors, both the very familiar and the less well-known, whose writings are at the source of virtually every Protestant denomination. From the followers of Luther and Calvin to the leading figures of the Anabaptist movement, the writers represented in the Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts can now be studied and compared in ways that will open new avenues of research for the next generation of scholars.

The Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation
This collection gives scholars access to nearly 300,000 pages of primary-source material from the 16th and 17th centuries. Into one extensive, fully searchable collection we have gathered all the key catechisms, scholarly treatises, papal documents, devotional works, and theological volumes that sparked and sustained the reform from within the Catholic Church in the heady years before, during, and after the landmark decrees of the Council of Trent. As a companion collection to our Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts, the Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation completes the picture of an era when religious debates irrevocably altered the course of Western history. Project editors for the collection are Simon Ditchfield at the University of York and Brad Gregory at the University of Notre Dame.

The Digital Karl Barth Library
The Digital Karl Barth Library, created in association with the Theologischer Verlag Zürich (TVZ) and Princeton Theological Seminary, is an online collection to support a new generation of research into the works of one of the 20th century's most influential theologians. The database features the entire corpus of Barth's Gesamtausgabe. Published under the TVZ imprint, this definitive edition of Barth's works in German currently comprises 42 volumes of theological writings, letters, sermons, academic writings, and more. Also included is Barth's magnum opus, the 14-volume Kirchliche Dogmatik. During the second phase of the project, Alexander Street will supplement the exhaustive German-language content with English translations of Barth's most important works—in particular, the monumental Church Dogmatics.

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