---
title: "Principles of Charitology"
group: "Thought and teaching"
order: 3
summary: "The field’s open textbook, written chapter by chapter in public."
status: live
statusNote: "The complete ten-chapter textbook, full reading and print edition, download, search and private reading notebooks."
conditions: ["missing-profession"]
help:
  - "Improve a chapter with a pull request."
  - "Propose exercises for the Principles course."
  - "Translate a chapter."
related: ["/programs/principles-course/", "/programs/certified-charitologist/", "/record/encyclopedia/"]
---

Read ten substantive chapters in order or by topic. Use the complete reading and print edition, download the Markdown book or keep private questions in each chapter’s notebook. The self-paced course adds exercises and assessment; reading alone does not certify competence.