Emanuel Swedenborg
Who he was:
Swedish philosopher, theologian, chemist, anatomist, and visionary, fluent in eleven languages (1688-1772). Swedenborg devoted the first half of his life to scientific investigations. After 1744 he turned his full attention to theology, metaphysics and started to scientifically explore visionary experience. Swedenborg's most popular book is Heaven and Hell. During his life, Swedenborg published over 50 works.
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Synopsis, and further descriptions.
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Summary, and another summary.
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A website emanuelswedenborg.org
Publications:
(online books also
here and
here). Another
here.
The Swedenborgian Virtual Bookstore
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Primary Theological Works (and their standard abbreviations) |
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Arcana Coelestia (sometimes translated as Heavenly Secrets) |
AC |
1747-1756 |
An extensive verse by verse explanation of the deeper levels of meaning of Genesis and Exodus describing the spiritual development of a human being and the nature of the Divine. (Published in 12 volumes.) |
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Spiritual Diary (sometimes called Spiritual Experiences) |
SD or SE |
1747-1763 |
The personal notebooks kept by Swedenborg of his experiences in the Spiritual World and reflections upon them. They were unpublished until the mid 1800s. |
| HH |
1758 |
A description of the structure and phenomena of the Spiritual World. |
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Earths in the Universe |
EU |
1758 |
Conversations Swedenborg had with people in the Spiritual World who said they were from other planets in the universe. |
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The Last Judgement |
LJ |
1758 |
Description of events in the Spiritual World preparing the way for the establishment of the New Church. |
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The White Horse |
WH |
1758 |
A brief explanation of the meaning of the white horse with its rider from the Book of Revelation chapter 19 as the Divine truth of the Lord's Word. |
| NJHD |
1758 |
A brief summary of the fundamental doctrines of the New Church with extensive references to the Arcana Coelestia for further reading. |
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| DL |
1763 |
A brief work summarizing the teachings about God - His Divinity and Humanity - with extensive references to the Old and New Testaments. |
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The Doctrine of the Sacred Scripture |
SS |
1763 |
A brief work summarizing the teachings on the nature of revelation. |
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The Doctrine of Life |
DL |
1763 |
A brief work describing the qualities which comprise a life of good which leads to heaven. |
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The Doctrine of Faith |
DF |
1763 |
A brief work explaining the nature of faith and its role in the life of regeneration. |
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A Continuation Concerning the Last Judgement |
CLJ |
1763 |
A continuation describing various erroneous beliefs about the Divine and the path of spiritual development. |
| DLW |
1763 |
A philosophic treatment of creation - how the Divine finited Himself to produce the natural world and the human race. |
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| DP |
1764 |
A thorough explanation of how the Lord leads people in freedom to become angels in heaven; also, why He allows evils to occur. |
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| AR |
1766 |
A two volume, verse by verse treatment of the Book of Revelation. |
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Conjugial Love (or Marital Love) |
CJ or ML |
1768 |
An explanation of the sources of love in marriage and a practical guide on how husbands and wives can grow ever closer forming an eternal union. |
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A Brief Exposition of the Doctrine of the New Church |
BE |
1769 |
A point by point comparison of fundamental Catholic and Protestant doctrines with the teachings of the New Church. |
| ISB |
1769 |
A brief description of the relationship and interaction between the spiritual and natural realms. |
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| TCR |
1771 |
A comprehensive overview of the fundamental doctrines of the New Church, including the Lord, the Ten Commandments, Faith, Charity, Repentance, Reformation, Regeneration, Holy Supper, Baptism, and the Second Coming. |
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| Summaries Of The Internal Sense Of The Prophets And Psalms | PP | ||
| The Apocalypse Explained | AE | ||
| The Doctrine Of Charity | Charity | ||
All of Swedenborg's writings are available online at
- newchristianbiblestudy.org
- www.theheavenlydoctrines.org,
Here, individual passages may be referenced as theheavenlydoctrines.org/static/dB/N.htm, N is the passages number, and B is the book index. The book indexes can be found in the following tab delimited text file: ns-start-numbers.txt. - www.eswedenborg.com, mirrored at www.eswedenborg.com
- www.smallcanonsearch.com
- Modules within TheWord Bible Software
A list of his publications is in a US sales catalogue, and in the UK Swedenborg Society web site. CDROMs containing his works are available from www.theheavenlydoctrines.org and New Church Outreach.
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Churches and Societies
| New Church (Swedenborgian) | ||
| swedenborg.newearth.org | Michael David | 'New Earth' web site with worldwide links. |
| swedenborg digitallibrary.org | Swedenborg Project | Books |
| newchurch.org | General Church | The New Church |
| swedenborg study.com | Ian Thompson | Books, articles and sermons |
| swedenborg.org | Swedenborgian Church | |
| spiritualwisdom.org.uk | General Conference of the New Church, in the UK. | Introduction to Spiritual Wisdom |
| swedenborg- openlearning.org.uk | New Church College, UK. | Swedenborg Open Learning Centre |
| onechristianity.org | Steve Simons, New Church | The One True Faith |
| smallcanonsearch.com | Swedenborg Project | Books of Swedenborg |
| Swedenborg Societies | ||
| swedenborg.org.uk | Swedenborg Society, London | Archives, Meetings, and Publishing |
| swedenborg.com | Swedenborg Foundation | Publishers |
| swedenborg.com.au | Swedenborg Lending Library and Enquiry Centre, Australia | |
| Related Sites | ||
| Swedenborg Study.com | Many | Articles and Books inspired by Swedenborg |
| J.A. Coriat | Compilations | |
| egogahan.com | Barb and JudyE | Survival |
| spiritualquestions. org.uk | Stephen Russell-Lacy et al | Spiritual questions & comments |
| just-in-time-swedenborg.org | Dagmar Bollinger | Theological Repository |
| God-is-Love .org.uk | Alan Misson et al | Basic theology |