Theological Research Exchange Network

[dizzle]

I found this site very interesting and useful. Have you ever seen that footnote "unpublished doctoral dissertion of blah blah blah" and just wanted to get your hands on that paper? Well here may be one way that you can.

www.tren.com

Here is the blurb from their site

The Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) is a library of over 10,000 theological thesis/dissertation titles representing research from as many as 70 different institutions. Titles may be ordered online through our search and order system (http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?oid=evKxNc4ywneAgN9qroXpuLHDk3KVnN48WBjHarpOa6ckTOaSVdhXaC710jUgRaCc).

TREN also makes available conference papers presented at annual meetings of several academic societies. Here are a few of our conference paper sources:



Evangelical Theological Society (1,129 papers)
American Society of Church History (150 papers)
Society for Pentecostal Studies (75 papers)
North American Patristic Society (http://www.tren.com/conf.cfm?oid=evKxNc4ywneAgN9qroXpuLHDk3KVnN48WBjHarpOa6ckTOaSVdhXaC710jUgRaCc) (20 papers)
American Catholic Historical Association (http://www.tren.com/conf.cfm?oid=evKxNc4ywneAgN9qroXpuLHDk3KVnN48WBjHarpOa6ckTOaSVdhXaC710jUgRaCc) (14 papers)
You can obtain documents from TREN in three media formats:



Digital, downloadable e-docs (NEW!)
Paper copies are available at 15 cents per page.
Low cost microfiche between $3.00 and $5.00 per title.

[Trout]

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[Silver Hand]

What a fantastic find, Dee Dee!

I had so my professors in college who were kind enough to let me peek at their dissertations.

Several have had works published in other places. Maybe I can find other unpublished stuff here? Worth a shot!

[dizzle]

It is a FANTASTIC resource. I have got many papers from them including very hard to find items that a lot of people quote but never read for themselves, including a juicy one from a dispie futurist refuting the premill claim that all the earliest church fathers were premill.

Some great antihyperpret stuff too.

If you know of any dissertations that people wouldn't mind published so that people could read for free, we would love to host them here at TWeb.

TREN has some minimal charges which is understandable since he collects the work. I don't agree with his policy that it can't be reproduced AT ALL. And quite honestly, right wrong or indifferent, I have copied some papers and given them to people who didn't have the money. I never sold them - that would be wrong, but I have a problem with monetary boundaries put up to people who are struggling with heresy when there is material out there that can help them.

All I can say is that they can sue me. I don't do it often, but if someone is about to lose their faith and I have a $15 paper that could help them, I am giving them a copy.