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 http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/. Below are the subclasses for Historical and Theological Department with call number ranges for subheadings: Church History Subclass BR -Christianity BR1-1725 Christianity BR60-67 Early Christian literature. Fathers of the Church, etc. BR115 Christianity in relation to special subjects BR130-133.5 Christian antiquities. Archaeology. Museums BR140-1510 History BR160-481 By period BR160-275 Early and medieval BR280 Renaissance. Renaissance and Reformation BR290-481 Modern period BR323.5-334.2 Luther, Martin BR500-1510 By region or country BR1600-1609 Persecution. Martyrs BR1609.5 Dissent BR1610 Tolerance and toleration BR1615-1617 Liberalism BR1620 Sacrilege (History) BR1690-1725 Biography Subclass BX Church Denominations BX1-9999 BX1-9.5 BX100-189 BX100-107 Christian Denominations Church unity. Ecumenical movement. Interdenominational cooperation Eastern churches. Oriental churches 1
BX120-129 BX130-139 BX140-149 BX150-159 BX160-169 BX170-179 BX180-189 BX200-756 BX200-395 BX400-756 BX400-440 BX450-450.93 BX460-605 BX610-620 BX630-639 BX650-659 BX660-669 BX670-679 BX690-699 BX710-719 BX720-729 BX729.5 BX729.9-755 BX800-4795 BX800-839 BX840 BX841 BX845 BX847 BX850-875 BX880-891 BX895-939 BX940-1745 BX1746-1755 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
BX1760-1779.5 BX1781-1788 BX1790-1793 BX1800-1920 BX1958-1968 BX1969 BX1970-2175 BX2050-2175 BX2177-2198 BX2200-2292 BX2295-2310 BX2312 BX2315-2324 BX2325-2333 BX2347-2377 BX2380-2386 BX2400-4563 BX2890-4192 BX4200-4563 BX4600-4644 BX4650-4705 BX4650-4698 BX4654-4662 BX4700-4705 BX4700 BX4710.1-4715.95 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
BX4716.4-4795 BX4718.5-4735 BX4737 BX4740 BX4751-4793 BX4793.5-4794.25 BX4795 BX4800-9999 BX4800-4861 BX4872-4924 BX4872-4893 BX4900-4906 BX4913-4924 BX4920-4924 BX4929-4951 BX4929-4946 BX4950-4951 BX5001-5009 BX5011-5207 BX5011-5050 BX5051-5110 BX5115-5126 BX5127-5129.8 BX5130-5132 BX5133 BX5135-5136 BX5137-5139 BX5140.5-5147 BX5148-5149 BX5150-5182.5 BX5183-5187 BX5194-5195 BX5197-5199 BX5200-5207 BX5210-5395 BX5410-5595 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
BX5596-5598 BX5600-5740 BX5601-5620 BX5800-5995 America BX5996-6030 BX6051-6093 BX6101-9999 BX6101-6193 BX6195-6197 BX6201-6495 BX6201-6227 BX6231-6328 BX6329 BX6330-6331.2 BX6333 BX6334 BX6335-6336 BX6337 BX6338-6339 BX6340-6346.3 BX6349-6470 BX6480-6490 BX6493-6495 BX6551-6593 BX6651-6693 BX6751-6793 BX6801-6843 BX6901-6997 BX7003 BX7020-7060 BX7079-7097 BX7101-7260 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. AMillerites@ 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
BX7301-7343 BX7401-7430 BX7451-7493 BX7556 BX7580-7583 BX7601-7795 BX7801-7843 Dunkards BX7850-7865 BX7901-7943 BX7990.H6-.H69 BX8001-8080 BX8101-8144 BX8201-8495 BX8525-8528 BX8551-8593 BX8601-8695 BX8701-8749 BX8762-8785 BX8799-8809 BX8901-9225 BX9301-9359 BX9401-9640 BX9675 BX9701-9743 BX9751-9793 BX9801-9869 BX9875-9877.1 BX9881-9882.95 BX9884-9886 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
BX9901-9969 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 B1-5802 Philosophy () B69-99 works B108-5802 By period Including individual philosophers and schools of philosophy B108-708 Ancient B720-765 Medieval B770-785 Renaissance B790-5802 Modern B808-849 Special topics and schools of philosophy B850-5739 By region or country B5800-5802 By religion Subclass BJ -Ethics BJ1-1725 BJ71-1185 BJ1188-1295 BJ1298-1335 BJ1365-1385 BJ1388 BJ1390-1390.5 BJ1392 BJ1395 BJ1518-1697 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
BJ1801-2195 BJ2021-2078 BJ2139-2156 BJ2195 Social usages. Etiquette Etiquette of entertaining Etiquette of travel Telephone etiquette Subclass BL Religions, Mythology, Rationalism BL1-2790 BL1-50 BL51-65 BL70-71 BL71.5-73 BL74-99 BL175-265 BL175-190 BL200 BL205-216 BL217 BL218 BL220 BL221 BL224-227 BL239-265 BL270 BL290 BL300-325 BL350-385 BL410 BL425-490 BL430 BL435-457 BL458 BL460 BL465-470 BL473-490 BL500-547 BL550-619 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
BL624-629.5 BL630-(632.5) BL660-2680 BL660 BL685 BL687 BL689-980 BL700-820 BL830-875 BL900-980 BL1000-2370 BL1000-1035 BL1050 BL1055 BL1060 BL1100-1295 BL1100-1107.5 BL1108.2-1108.7 BL1109.2-1109.7 BL1111-1143.2 BL1112.2-1137.5 BL1140.2-1140.4 BL1141.2-1142.6 BL1145-1146 BL1153.7-1168 BL1212.32-1215 BL1216-1225 BL1225.2-1243.58 BL1243.72-1243.78 BL1271.2-1295 BL1284.5-1289.592 BL1300-1380 BL1310-1314.2 BL1315-1317 BL1375.3-1375.7 BL1376-1378.85 BL1379-1380 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
BL1500-1590 BL1595 BL1600-1695 BL1600-1605 BL1610 BL1615-1616 BL1620-1625 BL1630 BL1635 BL1640-1645 BL1650 BL1660-1665 BL1670-1672 BL1675 BL1680-1685 BL1695 BL1710 BL1750-2350 BL1790-1975 BL1830-1883 BL1899-1942.85 BL2000-2032 BL2017-2018.7 BL2195-2228 BL2216-2227.8 BL2230-2240 BL2390-2490 BL2420-2460 BL2500-2592 BL2600-2630 BL2670 BL2700-2790 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
BT10-1480 BT19-37 BT93-93.6 BT95-97.2 BT98-180 BT109-115 BT117-123 BT126-127.5 BT130-153 BT198-590 BT296-500 BT580 BT587 BT595-680 BT650-660 BT695-749 BT750-811 BT819-891 BT899-940 BT960-985 BT990-1010 BT1029-1040 BT1095-1255 BT1313-1480 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 6189 - Seventh-day Adventist Literature 11