SCP Book Donations

The SCP is seeking donations to the Plantinga Library at Peking University and the Kretzmann LIbrary at Wuhan University. Please find instructions for donating below.

Why donate books to China? Read this letter from Eleonore Stump about the Kretzmann Library at Wuhan:

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

I wish you could see how excited and how glad the faculty and students at Wuhan are over all those books which you have so generously donated to them. The books have flowed in from everywhere and made their way to Wuhan. Some of you gave a few books; some of you gave a lot of books. But very many people contributed to what is now the nucleus of an excellent small library in Western philosophy and theology at Wuhan. Books are very expensive in China, and so this small beginning of a library, donated by strangers from so far away, has created something of a stir in the community. The local media has run more than one story on it, and the University itself has provided new accommodations for the whole Philosophy Department together with a beautiful new room for the library. The Chinese will catalogue these books in the coming months, and they will try to put the catalogue on-line, so that scholars throughout China will be aware of this resource at Wuhan. Little as our donated library is, faculty at Wuhan University tell me that it is one of the largest collections of such materials in China. I would be so glad if you would not forget this burgeoning library in the coming year. By comparison with what we take for granted in our libraries, it is so small. As you find yourself in possession of extra books, or as you find yourself willing to share books which are not extra for you. For my part, I am very grateful to each of you who has contributed to the library as it now is in Wuhan. This library is a living thing, which will do good in China long after much else that we do has fallen into dust. This is our library, as well as Wuhan’s.

With much thanks, Eleonore Stump

Alvin Plantinga Library at Peking University

To donate to the newly inaugurated Alvin Plantinga Library at Peking University, please send books to:

Theological Book Network. Inc.
Attn: Alvin Plantinga Library
3529 Patterson Ave. SE Grand Rapids, MI 49512

Norman Kretzmann Library at Wuhan University

To donate to the Norman Kretzmann Library at Wuhan University please send books to the above address attn: Norman Kretzmann Library.