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One of the world’s most comprehensive theological research libraries, Wright Library strengthens teaching, inspires learning, broadens access, fosters research, embraces change, and advances and preserves knowledge.
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Spaces
Wright Library offers a variety of individual and group study spaces. Some spaces are available on a first-come, first-served basis, while Princeton Seminary students may reserve others in advance.
General Collections
From a Reference Collection of nearly 10,000 volumes to millions of print and electronic books and journals, The Charles G. Reigner Collection, and reserves for Princeton Seminary courses, Wright Library supports theological study and research at all levels.
Special Collections
Special Collections and Archives at Wright Library comprise more than 100,000 printed works and over 5,175 linear feet of archival and manuscript material. Major collections include the Seminary archives, rare books and pamphlets, personal papers, records of organizations, research collections, and non-textual materials related to the history of the Presbyterian and Reformed traditions and ecumenical Christianity.
Digital Collections
The digitized books, journals, audio recordings, photographs, manuscripts, and other formats dating from the medieval era to the present in the Theological Commons digital library are just some of the digital collections built and curated by Wright Library and available to anyone from anywhere.
New in the Library
New Database: Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library
Written from a range of denominations, the 59 works included in this new collection on Bloomsbury’s draw on philological, historical, . . .
Advent & Christmas 2025
From Christmas Carol Services in the Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology to recordings of Princeton Theological Seminary’s annu. . .
New Faculty Book: Scribal Representations…
Scribal Representations and Social Landscapes of the Iron Age Shephelah by Mahri Leonard-Fleckman, Associate Professor of Old Testament at P. . .
New Faculty Book: Theology and Ethics…
Theology and ethics of oppressed and marginalized peoples : social ethics and agency in world Christianity edited by Nimi Wariboko and Raimu. . .
New Faculty Book: For Such a Time as This
For such a time as this : an emergency devotional by Hanna Reichel, Charles Hodge Professor of Systematic Theology at Princeton Seminary, is. . .
New Faculty Book: Engaging Coloniality
Engaging Coloniality : The Liberative Story of Christianity in Latin America edited by Raimundo C. Barreto, Jr., Associate Professor of Worl. . .
New Faculty Book: Luther and the Peasants
Luther and the peasants : religion, ritual, and the revolt of 1525 by Kenneth G. Appold, James Hastings Nichols Professor of Reformation His. . .
New Bloomsbury Collections
Wright Library recently trialed and has now purchased perpetual access to three new collections on Bloomsbury’s Theology & Religio. . .
About Theodore Sedgwick Wright
Wright Library is named for Theodore Sedgwick Wright (Class of 1828), a prominent abolitionist and pastor who was the first African American to graduate from Princeton Theological Seminary.
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