Research Guides: Theological Research and Writing: Language Resources

General Works

"Writing Theology Well in a New Language: Rhetorics for International Student Writers and Their Tutors".
Chapter 13 in Lucretia B. Yaghjian's Writing Theology Well: A Rhetoric for Theological and Biblical Writers.

Reading French: A Guide for Students of Religion and Theology.
K. Janet Ritch.
Toronto : Clements, 2006.
French for Reading and Translation.
Shannon R. Becker.
New York: Routledge, 2021.
Dictionnaire culturel du christianisme: le sens chrétien des mots.
Pascal-Raphaël Ambrogi
Paris : Honoré Champion éditeur, 2021.
Use this dictionary of Christianity as an introductory French reader.

Handbook of Reading Theological German.
Christopher Ryan Jones and Katharina Hirt,
Grand Rapids, MI : HarperCollins Christian Publishing, 2021.
A Theological German Vocabulary: German Theological Key Words Illustrated in Quotations from Martin Luther's Bible and the Revised Standard Version.
Walter M. Mosse.
New York: Macmillan, 1955.
Theological German: A Reader.
Helmut W. Ziefle.
Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1986.
The online version is available on the Internet Archive, a trusted source, but one for which it is necessary to create a free account and login.
Dictionary of Modern Theological German.
Helmut W. Ziefle.
Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1992.
The online version is available on the Internet Archive, a trusted source, but one for which it is necessary to create a free account and login.
Introduction to Theological German.
J. D. Manton.
Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1973.
The online version is available on the Internet Archive, a trusted source, but one for which it is necessary to create a free account and login.

A Primer of Pastoral Spanish.
Michael J. McGrath.
Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2022.
Not yet published.