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3 Western Religions Eastern Religions Philosophy ORIENTATION 3 WESTERN RELIGIONS EASTERN RELIGIONS PHILOSOPHY FINDING A BOOK COMPARATIVE RELIGION CHRISTIANITY - STUDIES CHRISTIANITY SINCE THE ORIENTAL RELIGIONS PHILOSOPHY Bibliographies REFORMATION - SOURCES General BFD General BCF GIF General AAI The first letter of the pressmark 3– Encyclopaedias 90– Logic Protestantism. Sources. of a book indicates the floor on Religion and Science 6– General Egypt. Sources 375– Epistemology BFF BMH 500– Luther GLH 240– Prayer and Penance Christianity, Judaism, Paganism General History which it is to be found. 530– Melanchthon Studies. Religion AFF 340– Death & Afterlife BCG 75– Miraculous Birth 120– Regional History 575– Zwingli GLB 400– Language & Literature 85– Emperor as World Saviour 210– History of Philosophical Systems 590– Calvin At the entrance to each floor Interpretation 120– Mystery Religions & Christianity Collected Essays BFR 600– Other Reformers History AFI 150– Hellenism & Christianity GLK there is an alphabetical list 1000– Pamphlets & Lampoons Philosophy of Religion 245– Orient & Christianity which gives the bay number on BFA 1010– Historical Texts Assyria and Babylonia. Sources 455– Mysticism 300– Judaism & Christianity GNH 1210– France GREEK & ROMAN which individual pressmarks 1000– Sociology of Religion 1250– England Studies are located. New Testament GNB PHILOSOPHY 4050– Germany Religion Rites & Cults BCD 82– Translations of the Bible BFC 5005– Catholic Church. General History 125– Sacrifice 100– Gospels GNK Sources. General This is the only way to find 5015– Authors AKH 165– Kingship 165– Epistles 185– Plato 5510– Council of Trent Hittites a book promptly since the 240– General Mythology 260– Apocalypse GKH 228– Aristotle 5600– Jesuits sequence of pressmarks on 600– Symbolism 280– Apocrypha 325– Cicero 5725– Teatines Asia Minor 1045– Names 300– Life of Christ GKI 350– Seneca the shelves does not follow the 5760– Oratorians 450– Apostles 700– Neo-Platonism order of the alphabet. 5790– Piarists Armenia & Georgia GKP Studies. General TEUTONIC & Gnosticism & Manichaeism 5800– Jansenists AKF BCL 5990– Trappists Phoenicia GKD General SLAVONIC RELIGION 6000– Wars of Religion AKA Early Christianity Syria. Language 300– Pre-Socratics General BCC 6670– Italy BEF 350– General Councils GKE 525– Plato & His Followers 7000– Spain 400– Spread of Christianity History 600– Aristotle & His Followers 7500– France Heroic Legends 425– Decline of Paganism GKF 800– Stoics BEE 8200– Low Countries 150– Fairy Tales 475– Constantine Arabic (Pre-Islamic) 860– Cicero 8500– British Isles 485– Nicaea. Chalcedon GKC 885– Posidonius 8600– Germany Ethiopia 1110– Neo-Platonism Eastern Church 9000– Eastern Europe GKA GRECO-ROMAN RELIGION BCK 9500– Africa 60– Eastern Christianity Persia. Sources Greek Religion 9700– Church Reform GEH BKF Christian Literature JEWISH & ARABIC 120– Rites BCE Religion 350– Myths of the Gods GEB PHILOSOPHY Church History. Middle Ages CHRISTIANITY SINCE THE 588– Heroic Myths & Legends BCB GEK History 590– Crusades REFORMATION - STUDIES AGH Sources. Jewish Philosophy BKB Mystery Religions 750– Individual Countries 345– Jewish Mysticism 200– Eleusis 1185– Papacy BMI Early Reformation Period 400– Arabic Philosophy 275– Cult of Dionysos JUDAISM - TEXTS Studies. Jewish Philosophy 342– Orphism Canon Law & Inquisition Causes & Antecedents of the ABG BCI BMA Old Testament 400– Jewish Mysticism 422– Cabiri Reformation GMH 555– Apocrypha Arabic Philosophy 425– Soul, Death, Immortality History of Dogma 75– Cultural Aspects of the Reformation 650– Dictionaries & Commentaries ABA BCA 142– Sacraments 450– Reformation & Art 700– Talmud Etruscan and Roman Religion 325– History of Liturgy BKG BMF General 1300– Jewish History 50– Etruscan Religion 800– Liturgical Accessories MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY 1200– Liturgical Costume 95– Roman Religion BME Luther 300– Celtic Religion 1250– Church Festivals 25– Bibliography JUDAISM - STUDIES Sources. Scholasticism 600– Hermetica 1450– Moral Theology 50– Biography ABH 1540– Mysticism 750– Egypto–Hellenistic Religion 1515– Martyrs, Saints & Relics 100– Youth Scholasticism 900– Syro–Hellenistic Religion 2000– Pilgrimage 110– Reforming Period Studies. Old Testament GMF ABB 750– Mysticism 1150– Hellenistic Religion in Asia Minor 125– Marriage, Death & Descendants 625– Apocrypha Monasticism 1180– Perso–Hellenistic Religion 150– Influence 650– Talmud BCP 200– English & Irish 240– Theology Hebrew Language 235– Benedictines 270– Ethics GML 270– Cistercians RENAISSANCE PHILOSOPHY 290– Eucharist Judaism & the Religions of CHRISTIANITY - TEXTS 420– Military Orders GMG 300– Liturgical Reform the Ancient World Sources. Italy 460– Franciscans ACH Concordances. Dictionaries 405– Humanism 125– Judaism & the Ancient East 1065– Spain BCH 490– Dominicans 25– Bible 550– Luther & German Language 600– Judaism & Hellenism 1600– France 535– Carmelites 310– Old Testament 800– Luther & the State 800– Judaism & Rome 2000– English Platonists 455– Old Testament. Apocrypha 700– Preaching Jewish History. Ancient Times 2375– Germany 555– New Testament Melanchthon GMK 900– Palestine in Biblical Times Studies. General & Italy 810– New Testament. Apocrypha BMN 100– Swiss Reformers ACN 1025– Commentaries. Harmonies 190– Luther’s Friends & Collaborators Religious History Spain 1155– Heresy. Gnosticism GMB 550– Spread of Reformation in Europe 600– Liturgy ACL 1285–1300 Manichaeism 770– Art 1400– Mandaeism 1150– Luther’s Opponents France 1500– Protestant Dogma ACB 1465– Early Church History Literature 1500– History of Liturgy 1750– Post–Reformation GME ACM England 1850– History of Dogma Religious Literature History of the Jews. 2005– Canon Law Political History of the Germany GMN Medieval & Modern ACE 2140– Councils BMM Reformation Period 2315– Eastern Church 490– Education 2500– Papacy Counter Reformation 600– Economic History MODERN PHILOSOPHY 3005– Western Church (by Country) BML 1510– Jesuits GMM Modern Judaism 3405– Crusades 190– Jewish Question in Europe Sources. 17th Century 3620– Martyrs, Saints, Relics. General 250– Jewish Question in America ADH 3775– Saints (alphabetically) 295– Antisemitism Sources. 18th Century 4000– Monasticism 700– Zionism AAH 240– 19th Century 4025– Eastern 830– Present Day Palestine 380– Positivism 4160– Western 575– Neo-Kantianism 4175– Rules 755– Pragmatism 4230– Benedictines 4335– Inclusi, Camaldoli, Vallombrosa ISLAM 970– Neo-Hegelianism 4345– Carthusians 1150– Phenomenology Sources 4355– Cistercians GAH 2000– Neo-Scholastic 4370– Praemonstratensians, Augustinians 4380– Military Orders GAB Studies. Religion AMF Studies. General 4470– Franciscans 500– Language & Literature 4625– Dominicans History 17th Century 4700– Preaching GAK AMM 265– 18th Century 5000– Authors GAG Islam & Europe 19th Century 5025– Ante-Nicene Library AME 5035– Other Collections Turkey. Sources. History 5040– Poetae Minores GPH 5050– Individual authors (chronologically) Studies. History 5060– Ignatius GPF 5115– Justin Literature 5145– Melito of Sardis GPE 5175– Irenaeus 5185– Clement of Alexandria 5200– Tertullian INDIA 5230– Origen Sources 5255– Cyprian GDH The four categories of Image, Word, Orientation and Action constitute the main 5265– Commodianus Studies. Religion 5325– Eusebius of Caesarea divisions of the Warburg Institute Library and encapsulate its aim to study: GDB 750– Literature 5400– Ephraem Syrus 5450– Hilary of Poitiers History The tenacity of symbols and images in European art and architecture 5520– Basil the Great GDK IMAGE, 1st floor 5610– Ambrose Hellenism in India 5750– John Chrysostom GDG 5795– Jerome The persistence of motifs and forms in Western languages and literatures Further India 5829– Prudentius GDL WORD, 2nd floor 5850– Paolinus of Nola Central Asia 5870– Augustine GDC The gradual transition, in Western thought, from magical beliefs to 6070– Cyril of Alexandria religion, philosophy and science 6100– Socrates Scholasticus 6210– Leo the Great CHINA, JAPAN ORIENTATION, 3rd & 4th floor 6330– Jacob of Sarug 6465– Gregory the Great GCH Sources The survival and transformation of ancient patterns in social 6619– Bede customs and political institutions 6800– Anastasius Bibliothecarius Studies. Religion 6990– Rupert of Deutz GCB 250– Literature ACTION, 4th floor 7030– Arnulf of Lisieux 7170– Bar Hebraeus GCK History.
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