The William Broadhurst Library houses more than 90,000 titles and over 30 periodicals with significant resources in the areas of the Wesleyan doctrine of holiness and on the history of the Church of the Nazarene. We also now have more than 520,000 electronic books that our students can access via our from anywhere. Questions? Please contact the library at: 816-268-5471 or at library@nts.edu.
Welcome to the NTS Library 鈥� a place for students, ministers, and researchers to study and explore. Community visitors are invited to visit by appointment.
Library Hours
Monday – Thursday: 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM
Friday: Closed
Saturday: 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM by appointment
(Please contact library@nts.edu 48 hours in advance)
Sunday: Closed
Searchable Databases
– ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials, Religion and Philosophy Collection, Christian Periodical Index, and Ebsco ebooks
Writing Helps
– Guide and helps for writing academic papers using the Turabian style
– Research organization and assistance tools
– Online bibliography and citation tool
Recommended Resources
– Writings of the Early Church
– A search engine for scholar
– Selective, annotated guide to online sources related to theology in the Wesleyan tradition
– Online full text of religious writings
– The Wesleyan-Holiness Digital Library is a free, multidisciplinary, open access, digital resource of books, literature, multimedia, and archives collected into a single institutional repository.
— develops and provides access to outstanding research resources for students and scholars of the broad Wesleyan tradition.
– Abstracts of Doctor of Ministry Projects from seminaries
– Includes a number of contemporary writings
– Focuses on free internet resources of use to researchers involved in the academic study of religion
– Find resources in a library near you