CALLING ALL CHRISTIAN SCHOLARS
ARE YOU LOOKING FOR SOMETHING YOU CAN PASS ON TO THE NEXT GENERATION?
Invest Your Legacy: Join the LXON™ Fellowship of Scholars
We are seeking Christian Scholars, including retired seminary professors, researchers, and technical professionals who are ready to dedicate some of their time to a project that is truly “one for the ages”. The LXON™ Research Portal is a mission-driven endeavor to create a world-class, affordable Christian research hub available to everyone. While we maximize the use of cutting-edge technology, the human touch remains irreplaceable in preserving the knowledge and “thrilling romance” of traditional reasoning and dogma for the next generation.
A Mission of Scholarly Excellence
This is a unique moment in history. With over 10,000 high-quality scholarly publications entering the public domain each year, we have a window of opportunity to rescue these works from obscurity.
Too many have seen their life’s work disappear because their writing is not well-known or popular enough to be republished. We want to help those who spent so many years teaching and studying to be remembered. Even if the work is unpublished, there could be good reasons to save it for posterity. We are looking for Christian Scholars to help us find the works that need saving.
This is a Worthwhile Use of Your Time
We provide the sophisticated infrastructure; as Christian Scholars, you provide the academic authority. Your volunteer contribution ensures that our digital library is not just a collection of files, but an academically superior resource.
- Refining AI Workflows: We use AI to create and markup clean copies of older works. There are many technical details involved. We need your expertise to audit and validate these translations for total scholarly accuracy.
- Building the “Lexis-Nexis of Theology”: You will help build a specialized repository that uses legal-grade tools—like proximity searching and citation mapping—to make theological research easier and more precise.
- We dream of more complex projects, such as using AI to translate original Danish texts, including the works of Søren Kierkegaard, and comparing them with existing public-domain translations into English.
Verified Authority: Using recognized WWW Schema, we verify your work as a legitimate authority, helping your contribution carry professional weight in the digital space.
How You Can Give Your Expertise
We invite you to join one of our seven specialized departments as a volunteer fellow:
- Digital Curators & Editors: Finalize AI-generated translations and curate upcoming projects like the Chesterton & Eliot Collection.
- Archival Catalogers: Use our specialized 1922 Dewey Decimal system to organize the LXON™ Card Catalog.
- Technical Specialists: Help manage our advanced foundation, including metadata synchronization and international search signals. Experience with DSpace or metadata synchronization would be helpful.
- Content Contributors: If you have important documents to contribute to the portal, we even offer royalties for their inclusion in this massive project.
Some of our projects we are considering
Bell, B. I. (1931). Unfashionable Convictions. New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers.
Fairbairn, A. M. (1902). The Philosophy of the Christian Religion. New York: The Macmillan Company; London: Hodder and Stoughton.
These works are essential for seminarians, historians, Christian Scholars, and those engaged in high-level cultural apologetics.
Ash-Wednesday
T.S. Eliot,1930
This poem marks Eliot’s conversion to Anglo-Catholicism. It is a profound, scholarly meditation on the struggle of the soul toward God, echoing Bell’s own journey through the “waste land” of modernism.
The Everlasting Man
G.K. Chesterton,1925
A direct challenge to H.G. Wells’ secular history of the world. Chesterton argues that Christianity is not just another “fashionable” philosophy, but a unique, supernatural eruption into human history.
Orthodoxy
G.K. Chesterton, 1908
Perhaps the closest spiritual cousin to Bell’s Unfashionable Convictions. It is a masterpiece of Christian apologetics, defending the “thrilling romance” of traditional dogma against the dullness of secularism.
The Pilgrim Church
E. H. Broadbent (1931)
A monumental history of “independent” Christianity outside the state-church structures. It provides a rare and meticulously researched genealogy of dissenting groups (Waldensians, Paulicians, Anabaptists) that is frequently cited by church historians but often difficult to find in a high-quality, modern edition. It offers an “unfashionable” but vital alternative perspective on church history that resonates with modern “house church” and non-denominational movements.
Christianity and Liberalism
J. Gresham Machen (1923)
The defining text of the Fundamentalist-Modernist controversy. Machen’s thesis—that “Liberalism” is not a version of Christianity but a separate religion entirely—remains one of the most logically rigorous critiques of secularized faith ever written.
The Return of Christendom
Maurice Reckitt et al. (1922)
A collection of essays by prominent Anglo-Catholics and Christian Socialists (with an introduction by G.K. Chesterton). It argues for a total restructuring of society based on Catholic social principles. It is a “lost” classic of Christian political theory that anticipated many modern discussions on “Post-Liberalism” and the “Benedict Option.”
The King’s Highway
G. D. Carleton (1924)
Widely considered the “gold standard” for Anglo-Catholic manuals of instruction. It covers dogma, liturgy, and the interior life with a clarity and firm conviction that is rarely seen in modern “broad” church literature.
Borden of Yale ’09
Mrs. Howard Taylor (1926)
The biography of William Whiting Borden, a millionaire heir who gave away his fortune to become a missionary to Muslims in China, only to die in Egypt at age 25. This is a premier example of 20th-century missionary hagiography. Its “No Reserves, No Retreats, No Regrets” message is a powerful devotional tool for modern youth ministries.
The Catholic Religion 1920s
Vernon Staley
A foundational manual for Anglican and Episcopal members.
A Manual of Church History
F.X. Funk
Originally published in German (Lehrbuch der Kirchengeschichte), this manual became a foundational textbook in seminaries and universities globally. It is prized for its conciseness and objective tone.
You have spent your lifetime becoming Christian Scholars. God-hunting resources needs your knowledge and talent.
