Biographisch-Bibliographischen Kirchenlexikon (BBKL)
Comprehensive in scope, this encyclopedia includes many entries on both early Christian authors and contemporary German theologians, church historians, and biblical scholars.
Comprehensive in scope, this encyclopedia includes many entries on both early Christian authors and contemporary German theologians, church historians, and biblical scholars.
A larger project of which the Internet Medieval Sourcebook is a part. While ORB contains comparatively little on early Christianity per se, it does have related materials on Late Antiquity and medieval Christianity.
This little hypertext encyclopedia, while not a work of rigorous scholarship, is a lot of fun and fully searchable. ChurchRodent is a product of the site author’s Church History class project for which he wrote a paragraph on every index entry for Bruce Shelley’s Christian History in Plain Language.
This is an online version of the old Catholic Encyclopedia (New York, 1907-12), which contains many articles on early Christian topics.
In addition to numerous ancient texts, the Internet Medieval Sourcebook also provides useful indices and supplementary material, such as select Secondary Sources and Maps and Images.