Holy Spirit Research Center: Oral Roberts Research

The HSRC and Main Library contain a large number of books, audio, and video by and about Oral Roberts.  This page contains links some quick links to items in the ORU catalog to help your research.

Bibliography on Oral Roberts

• Items in the ORU Catalog
• Healing Crusades
  • Something Good with Oral Roberts: Re-broadcast of Healing 1950s Healing Crusades (VHS-DVD)

• Searchable Periodicals on the Digital Showcase (Use of some of these requires ORU login credentials)

  • Healing Waters (1947–1953) 
  • America’s Healing Magazine (1953–1955) 
  • Healing (1956) 
  • Abundant Life (1956–Present)
• Holy Spirit in the Now Video Series
• Audio Sermons

In addition to these items, the HSRC has a vertical file of additional uncatalogued items. A finding aid is available for the Oral Roberts Vertical file.  There are also a growing number of unpublished writings, photos, and audio/video of Oral Roberts on ORU's Digital Showcase. 

The HSRC has a wide range of materials relating to the history of ORU, including artifacts, magazines, student newspapers, works by professors, audio/video of chapels, class recordings, and more. The Oral Roberts University Collection on Digital Showcase contains some of the artifacts, recordings, and ORU publications which have already been digitized. (Use of some of these requires ORU login credentials)

• Outreach Magazine (1964–1967 ) 
• Chapel Services (1965–Present)
• Conferences on the Holy Spirit (1980–1983) 
• Theological Heritage of ORU
  • History of Theological Education 
  • Charles Farah Jr.
  • Howard M. Ervin
• Promethia: Oral Roberts University's literary journal featuring poetry, short stories, one-act plays, artwork, and photography.
• KORU - ORU Time Machine Interviews & Sermons 
• ORU Vertical File of artifacts and publications (finding aid will be available soon).
• City of Faith Medical Complex vertical file.