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1 LC Classification for Historical and Theological The Leslie Hardinge Library uses the Library of Congress (LC) Classification scheme in the organization of its collection. LC Classification uses a combination of letters of the alphabet and numbers to serve as the call number of the books. The letters of the alphabet from A Z corresponds to the main class/subject area and a combination of two letters refers to a subclass. Learn more about LC classification Below are the subclasses for Historical and Theological Department with call number ranges for subheadings: Church History Subclass BR -Christianity BR Christianity BR60-67 Early Christian literature. Fathers of the Church, etc. BR115 Christianity in relation to special subjects BR Christian antiquities. Archaeology. Museums BR History BR By period BR Early and medieval BR280 Renaissance. Renaissance and Reformation BR Modern period BR Luther, Martin BR By region or country BR Persecution. Martyrs BR Dissent BR1610 Tolerance and toleration BR Liberalism BR1620 Sacrilege (History) BR Biography Subclass BX Church Denominations BX BX1-9.5 BX BX Christian Denominations Church unity. Ecumenical movement. Interdenominational cooperation Eastern churches. Oriental churches 1

2 BX BX BX BX BX BX BX BX BX BX BX BX BX BX BX BX BX BX BX BX BX BX729.5 BX BX BX BX840 BX841 BX845 BX847 BX BX BX BX BX BX1756 Armenian Church Coptic Church Ethiopic or Abyssinian Church Nestorian, Chaldean, or East Syrian Church St. Thomas Christians. Malabar Christians. Mar Thoma Syrian Church Syrian or Jacobite Church Maronite Church Orthodox Eastern Church Divisions of the church Patriarchates of the East. Melchites Church of Cyprus Russian Church Church of Greece Orthodox Church in Austria and Hungary Bulgarian Church Georgian Church Montenegrin Church Romanian Church Serbian Church. Yugoslav Church Orthodox Eastern Church, Macedonian Orthodox Eastern Church, Ukrainian Orthodox Church in other regions or countries Catholic Church Periodicals. Societies, councils, congresses, etc. Museums. Exhibitions Dictionaries. Encyclopedias Directories. Yearbooks Atlases Documents collected works Study and teaching History. Including lives of popes Theology. Doctrine. Dogmatics Sermons 2

3 BX BX BX BX BX BX1969 BX BX BX BX BX BX2312 BX BX BX BX BX BX BX BX BX BX BX BX BX4700 BX Controversial works Catholic Church and other churches Catholic Church and the state Government and organization Creeds and catechisms Forms of worship. Catholic practice Liturgy and ritual Prayers and devotions Meditations. Devotional readings. Spiritual exercises, etc. Sacraments Sacramentals Images Relics. Shrines. Pilgrimages. Processions Saints. Hagiology Practical religion. Christian life Religious life. Religious state Monasticism. Religious orders Religious orders of men Religious orders of women Churches, cathedrals, abbeys (as parish churches), etc. Biography and portraits Collective Saints and martyrs Individual Saints Eastern churches in communion with Rome. Catholics of the Oriental rites. Uniats 3

4 BX BX BX4737 BX4740 BX BX BX4795 BX BX BX BX BX BX BX BX BX BX BX BX BX BX BX BX BX BX5133 BX BX BX BX BX BX BX BX BX BX BX Dissenting sects other than Protestant Jansenists French schisms of the 19th century German Catholics Old Catholics Independent Catholic Churches Other Protestantism Pre-Reformation Waldenses and Albigenses Lollards. Wycliffites Hussites Bohemian Brethren Post-Reformation Anabaptists Plain People Anglican Communion () Church of England History. Local divisions Special parties and movements Church of England and other churches Sermons. Tracts. Addresses. Essays Controversial works Creeds and catechisms, etc. Liturgy and ritual Sacraments Government. Organization. Discipline Religious communities. Conventual life. Religious societies Cathedrals, churches, etc. in England and Wales Biography Dissent and nonconformity Episcopal Church in Scotland Church of Ireland 4

5 BX BX BX BX America BX BX BX BX BX BX BX BX BX6329 BX BX6333 BX6334 BX BX6337 BX BX BX BX BX BX BX BX BX BX BX7003 BX BX BX Church in Wales Church of England outside of Great Britain Anglican Church of Canada Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of Protestant Episcopal Church outside the United States Reformed Episcopal Church Other Protestant denominations Alphabetical; only larger denominations listed The subarrangement is essentially the same for each sect, the primary features being indicated by way of example under Baptists Adventists. Arminians. Remonstrants Baptists History. Local divisions Baptists and other churches Doctrine Sermons. Tracts Controversial works Creeds. Catechisms Service. Ritual. Liturgy Sacraments Government. Discipline Individual branches Individual Baptist churches Biography Catholic Apostolic Church. Irvingites Christadelphians. Brothers of Christ Christian Church. See also Disciples of Christ Christian Reformed Church Christian Science Christian Union Church of God Churches of God Congregationalism 5

6 BX BX BX BX7556 BX BX BX Dunkards BX BX BX7990.H6-.H69 BX BX BX BX BX BX BX BX BX BX BX BX BX9675 BX BX BX BX BX BX BX9887 BX9889 Disciples of Christ. Campbellites Dowieism. Christian Catholic Church Evangelical and Reformed Church Evangelical United Brethren Church Free Congregations (Germany). Freie Gemeinden Friends. Society of Friends. Quakers German Baptist Brethren. Church of the Brethren. German Evangelical Protestant Church of North America. German Evangelical Synod of North America Holiness churches Lutheran churches Mennonites Methodism Millennial Dawnists. Jehovah=s Witnesses Moravian Church. United Brethren. Unitas Fratrum. Herrnhuters Mormons. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints New Jerusalem Church. New Church. Swedenborgianism Pentecostal churches Plymouth Brethren. Darbyites Presbyterianism. Calvinistic Methodism Puritanism Reformed or Calvinistic Churches River Brethren. Brethren in Christ Salvation Army Shakers. United Society of Believers. Millennial Church Unitarianism United Brethren in Christ. Church of the United Brethren in Christ United Church of Canada United Church of Christ United Evangelical Church United Missionary Church 6

7 BX BX9975 BX9980 BX9998 BX9999 Unviersalism. Universalists Volunteers of America Walloon Church Other beliefs and movements akin to Christianity Independent churches, parishes, societies, etc. Theology Subclass B -Philosophy B Philosophy () B69-99 works B By period Including individual philosophers and schools of philosophy B Ancient B Medieval B Renaissance B Modern B Special topics and schools of philosophy B By region or country B By religion Subclass BJ -Ethics BJ BJ BJ BJ BJ BJ1388 BJ BJ1392 BJ1395 BJ BJ1725 Ethics History and general works Including individual ethical philosophers Religious ethics Evolutionary and genetic ethics Positivist ethics Socialist ethics Communist ethics Totalitarian ethics Feminist ethics Individual ethics. Character. Virtue Including practical and applied ethics, conduct of life, vices,success, ethics for children Ethics of social groups, classes, etc. Professional ethics 7

8 BJ BJ BJ BJ2195 Social usages. Etiquette Etiquette of entertaining Etiquette of travel Telephone etiquette Subclass BL Religions, Mythology, Rationalism BL BL1-50 BL51-65 BL70-71 BL BL74-99 BL BL BL200 BL BL217 BL218 BL220 BL221 BL BL BL270 BL290 BL BL BL410 BL BL430 BL BL458 BL460 BL BL BL BL Religions. Mythology. Rationalism Religion () Philosophy of religion. Psychology of religion. Religion in relation to other subjects Sacred books () Biography Religions of the world Natural theology Theism Nature and attributes of Deity Polytheism Dualism Pantheism Monotheism Creation. Theory of the earth Religion and science Unity and plurality The soul The myth. Comparative mythology Classification of religions Religions in relation to one another Religious doctrines () Origins of religion Nature worship Women in comparative religion Sex worship. Phallicism Worship of human beings Other Eschatology Worship. Cultus 8

9 BL BL630-(632.5) BL BL660 BL685 BL687 BL BL BL BL BL BL BL1050 BL1055 BL1060 BL BL BL BL BL BL BL BL BL BL BL BL BL BL BL BL BL BL BL BL BL BL Religious life Religious organization History and principles of religions Indo-European. Aryan Ural-Altaic Mediterranean region European. Occidental Classical (Etruscan, Greek, Roman) Germanic and Norse Other European Asian. Oriental Northern and Central Asia Southern and Eastern Asia Southwestern Asia. Asia Minor. Levant Hinduism Religious education Antiquities. Archaeology. Inscriptions Sacred books. Sources Vedic texts Pur n.as Tantric texts Hindu literature By region or country Doctrines. Theology Hindu pantheon. Deities Religious life Monasteries. Temples, etc. Modifications. Sects Vaishnavism Jainism Sacred books. Sources Jain literature Jaina pantheon. Deities Forms of worship Modifications, etc. 9

10 BL BL1595 BL BL BL1610 BL BL BL1630 BL1635 BL BL1650 BL BL BL1675 BL BL1695 BL1710 BL BL BL BL BL BL BL BL BL BL BL BL BL BL2670 BL Zoroastrianism (Mazdeism). Parseeism Yezidis Semitic religions Aramean Sumerian Assyro-Babylonian Chaldean Harranian. Pseudo-Sabian Syrian. Palestinian. Samaritan Hebrew For Judaism, see subclass BM Phoenician. Carthaginian, etc. Canaanite Moabite. Philistine Arabian (except Islam) Druses Ethiopian By region or country China Confucianism Taoism India Sikhism Japan Shinto Korea African Egyptian American For American Indians, see classes E-F Pacific Ocean islands. Oceania Arctic regions Rationalism Subclass BT Doctrinal Theology 10

11 BT BT19-37 BT BT BT BT BT BT BT BT BT BT580 BT587 BT BT BT BT BT BT BT BT BT BT BT schisms Doctrinal Theology Doctrine and dogma Judaism Divine law. Moral government God Doctrine of the Trinity Holy Spirit. The Paraclete Revelation Divine attributes Christology Life of Christ Miracles. Apparitions. Shrines, sanctuaries, images, processions, etc. Relics Mary, Mother of Jesus Christ. Mariology Miracles. Apparitions. Shrines, sanctuaries, images, processions, etc. Creation Salvation. Soteriology Eschatology. Last things Future state. Future life Invisible world (saints, demons, etc.) Creeds, confessions, covenants, etc. Catechisms Apologetics. Evidences of Christianity History of specific doctrines and movements. Heresies and BX 6106 BX Seventh-day Adventist Literature 11

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