What is the best theological library in America? If we get enough answers maybe we can make this into a poll.

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Andrew
Husband to Dena
Candidate of the MVP in the PCA
MDiv graduate from Reformed Theological Seminary, Jackson, MS
Pastor (elect) of Tchula Presbyterian Church, Tchula, MS

"What do you think about when you are not thinking about anything else? This is what you worship!"

It's probably a tie between Yale, Harvard, Princeton, and Library of Congress. Perhaps University of Chicago is up there too.

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Patrick
OPC
MDiv, RTS Jackson.

"He does well, that discourses of Christ; but he does infinitely better, that by experimental knowledge, feeds and lives on Christ." Thomas Brooks.

The Flora Lamson Hewlett Library of the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA.

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Curt Hayashida
member, Community Bible Church (Non-denominational)
Vallejo, CA

For a Reformed person, it's hard to beat the Hekman Library at Calvin College/Seminary in Grand Rapids. And the H. Henry Meeter Center for Calvin Studies (also at Hekman) is incredible.

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Wes Bredenhof
Co-pastor, Langley Canadian Reformed Church
Langley, British Columbia
www.bredenhof.ca

I have used the Pitts Theological Library on the campus of Emory University in Decatur, Georgia. Its special collections department is especially good. I've been told by several folk there that it is the third best theological library in the US, but I am no expert to judge those claims. But I did find things there I could find no where else within my reach.

DTK

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Sola Scriptura est norma normans non normata
David T. King, pastor
Christ Presbyterian Church (OPC)
Elkton, Maryland
Augustine (354-430): Therefore what He [i.e., Christ] has deigned to speak to us, we ought to believe that He meant us to understand. But if we do not understand He, being asked, gives understanding, who gave His Word unasked. NPNF1: Vol. VII, Tractates on John, Tractate XXII, §1.

Sounds great - so who is gonna get me a job?

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Independent Reformed Baptist Church (NE England, nr. Durham)

I must confess that the Library at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary is one of the best theological libraries in the U.S. I know it is the third largest in the East.

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Benjamin P. Glaser
Pittsburgh, PA
Fairmount ARP Church

Student of Theology
Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary
My Blog

Andrew Myers' house.

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Daniel Ritchie
Saintfield, Northern Ireland - Queen's University, Belfast:History/Politics
Member of Dromara Reformed Presbyterian Church of Ireland (Covenanter)

Living in GR, I can't tell how invaluable this resource is, but I do have to vote for my seminary's library too. Puritan Reformed maybe small for now, but our library is mighty if you want solid Reformed and Puritan works.

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Jeff Wyman
Seminarian
Little Farms Chapel OPC, Coopersville, MI
Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, Grand Rapids, MI

"May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence." 1 Peter 1:2-3 (ESV)

Or at least his warehouse.

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Rev. Lane Keister
Teaching Elder, PCA, North Dakota (working out of bounds in a CRC and an RCA church)
http://greenbaggins.wordpress.com
http://brahmsgreenglove.blogspot.com
http://accenttranslation.blogspot.com
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Andrew Myers
Husband of Jessica, Father of Jackson, Katie and Samuel
Member, Presbyterian Reformed Church of Northern Virginia
Warrenton, VA USA
Editor, The Matthew Poole Project

"On land, at sea, at home, abroad, / I smoke my pipe and worship God." -- J.S. Bach

Admittedly it's not within the U. S. of A., but the combined Regent College - Carey Theological College library in Vancouver, BC is very good. Given that it is a branch of the Evangelical Library in London, I can get just about anything I need from it.

And let's not forget that any library that is linked to Early English Books Online has online access to just about every Puritan publication that ever was. Your local University library should have this access.

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In Christ's love and service

Mr. Tim Cunningham, Dip. CS (Regent College)
Member, First Baptist Church
Vancouver, BC

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"The Reformation was a time when men went blind, staggering drunk because they had discovered, in the dusty basement of late medievalism, a whole cellar of 1500-year-old, 200 proof grace—a bottle after bottle of pure distillate of Scripture, one sip of which would convince anyone that God saves us single-handedly. The word of the gospel—after all these centuries of trying to lift yourself into heaven by worrying about the perfection of your own bootstraps—suddenly turned out to be a flat announcement that the saved were home-free before they started. Grace was to be drunk neat: no water, no ice, and certainly no ginger ale." – Robert Farrar Capon

From what I hear it is Al Mohler's personal library.

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For the sake of the Name,

John Hill
Faith Community - Woodstock, Ga
Adopted. Husband for 12 years. Father of 5 children.
http://faithcommunitychurch.org- My home church
Rocky Top, you'll always be, home sweet home to me.

Certainly not the best, but I am only a few minutes from . . .

Last time I did some research there, I didn't even need an exorcism afterwards.

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Dennis E. McFadden, Ex Mainline Baptist (in Remission)
Atherton Baptist Homes, CEO
First Baptist Church of Alhambra, Member, Transformation Ministries (CA)

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WTS PA's is nice. Fuller's is rather large and even in town, Vanderbilt's Divinity isn't too shabby.

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Chris Rhoades -33
Good Shepherd Presbyterian Church (PCA) Nashville, TN-Under Care

Vera theologia non theoretica, sed practica est; Finis siquidem eius agere est hoc est vitam vivere deiformem. - Martin Bucer
""True theology is not theoretical, but practical. The end of it is living, that is to live a godly life."

Put Dr. Mohler's and Andrew's library together and I'd say you'd have something special. Of course, either we do for me!

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Ivan Schoen, Pastor
Maranatha Baptist Church
Poplar Grove, Illinois USA
http://maranatha-sbc.org/
Husband to Nancy
Father to Sherril, Sarah, Kathryn
Grandfather to Phillip
Faith is the refusal to panic. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

I heard that the Boyce College/Southern Seminary was one of the biggest in the Western Hemisphere.

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Dan Pemberton
Vacaville, CA

Member, First Baptist Church San Luis Obispo
Formerly ABUSA (We left, so I guess that makes us American Baptists Unleashed!)

Dr. Beeke tells us that Union Theological Seminary library is the best in the US.

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Nathan Eshelman
Grand Rapids, MI
First Reformed Presbyterian Church

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First Reformed Presbyterian Church

Princeton's is the best on the east coast - the best for Karl Barth, probably in the States - of course, you need to read and enjoy Barth (which all reformed believers should) to enjoy it.

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John
Evangelical Free Church, no offices held
Langhorne, PA

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The brag is that the Princeton libraries contain the largest theological collection in the United States and second in the world, behind only the Vatican Library in Rome. Princeton is for Barth studies what Grand Rapids is for Calvin and the Puritans. The Burke Library at Union has 604,000 bound volumes. Westminster (East) has 140,000 bound volumes; Puritan Reformed holds 40,000+; Westminster CA claims 120,000 volumes; Fuller has 500,000 books and media.