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LXON® Christian Research Portal
LXON is a Christian research portal. Ask a question about God, religion, or the questions people have always asked, and LXON gives you a written answer that names its sources, the other side of the argument where there is one, and the books to read next.
You are welcome here whatever you believe: Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, atheist, agnostic, or still deciding. Our library is strongest in Christian writing, and we say so plainly, but LXON weighs the twelve major theories of God, from classical theism to atheism, and lets the sources speak. It is built for the student writing a paper, the pastor preparing a sermon, the skeptic testing an argument, and anyone who wants to know what the sources actually say. Not a shortcut around scholarship. A shortcut into scholarship.
Every Answer Brings You
- A balanced summarythe main positions and what each rests on
- The other sidein its own words, where there is a debate
- Reference articlesfrom standard encyclopedias
- Five bookschecked against library catalogs
- The discussionwhere readers are still debating it
- Web linksthe best pages to read next
How LXON Works
What happens when you ask a question: what we hold, what we found elsewhere, and your choices for going deeper.
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Why Not Just Google It?
Eight kinds of questions search engines answer poorly, and why the answers are often inside the books.
See the Eight →
Sample Answers
Real LXON answers, from where the Bible teaches the Trinity to whether Pascal’s Wager is sound, will be published here.
Coming soon
How to Cite a Digital Book
Digital books have no pages. Ours have paragraph numbers. Here is how to cite them in Chicago and APA.
Learn to Cite →
Three Levels of Search
A written answer, every passage the Library holds, or the whole Library: $5, $10 or $20, plus cost, priced before you pay.
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For Publishers and Estates
Hold the rights to Christian books? License them to LXON and let researchers find, cite, and buy them.
Learn More →Are All Religions the Same?
Many people have heard that every religion climbs the same mountain by a different road. Set their definitions of God side by side, though, and they overlap far less than that picture suggests. Our chart shows how little, and what follows for anyone who wants to know what is true.
A Word from the Dean
“I have been asked to say a few words, and I am a man of few words, so someone please tell me when to stop. Ask me a question about God, and I will find you the answer, name every source, give you the other side of the argument, point you to five books, and show you how to cite paragraph 12 of the third one. Then I will tell you what the scholars are still arguing about, and why they are wrong, and why I might be wrong too, and then there is the matter of the footnotes….”
Two Ways In
Researchers open an LXON account with an email address and a card, and pay only for the searches they choose: $5, $10 or $20, plus cost, with the price shown before anything is charged.
Members of Godhunting's free Solephia community already have LXON in their account, with everyday answers included in their membership.