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- Primary source: "A document, datum, or artifact that belongs to the era under examination and that offers the most direct access
to the person or issues being studied."
--James Bradley and Richard Muller, Church History: An Introduction to Research, Reference Works, and Methods (Grand Rapids, Mich: Eerdmans, 1995), 39 - Secondary sources: "Offer information about an event but stand removed from it either in time or by a process of transmission of information." Ibid., 41.
Key reference sources
- Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church [Ref BR95 .O8]
- Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation [Ref BR302.8 .O93 ]
- Encyclopedia of Religion in America [Ref. B2520 E52]
- New Catholic Encyclopedia, 1st and 2nd eds, 1967 and 2003 [Ref BX841 .N44; online]
- Salem History: Decades