Author: Elihu Rich
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 94

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Author: Devin P. Zuber
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813943523
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 369

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Long overlooked, the natural philosophy and theosophy of the Scandinavian scientist-turned-mystic Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772) made a surprising impact in America. Thomas Jefferson, while president, was so impressed with the message of a Baltimore Swedenborgian minister that he invited him to address both houses of Congress. But Swedenborgian thought also made its contribution to nineteenth-century American literature, particularly within the aesthetics of American Transcendentalism. Although various scholars have addressed how American Romanticism was affected by different currents of Continental thought and religious ideology, surprisingly no book has yet described the specific ways that American Romantics made persistent recourse to Swedenborg for their respective projects to re-enchant nature. In A Language of Things, Devin Zuber offers a critical attempt to restore the fundamental role that religious experience could play in shaping nineteenth-century American approaches to natural space. By tracing the ways that Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Muir, and Sarah Orne Jewett, among others, variously responded to Swedenborg, Zuber illuminates the complex dynamic that came to unfold between the religious, the literary, and the ecological. A Language of Things situates this dynamic within some of the recent "new materialisms" of environmental thought, showing how these earlier authors anticipate present concerns with the other-than-human in the Anthropocene.

Author: Albrecht Gralle
Publisher: Swedenborg Foundation
ISBN: 9780877853442
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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In this fanciful tour of the afterlife, Albrecht Gralle poses some hard-hitting questions: What if anyone could get into heaven? Would you want to go? Is it really possible for a rational person to believe in a God who can't been seen or touched, who would permit so much suffering in the world? Grounded in descriptions of heaven and hell from Swedish scientist-turned-theologian Emanuel Swedenborg, this exploration of the worlds of spirit speaks to anyone with doubts about spiritual belief.

Author: Emanuel Swedenborg
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 34

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Author: Kristin King
Publisher: Swedenborg Foundation
ISBN: 9780854481699
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Gardens of Heaven and Earth is a lyrical study that explores the roles that gardens have played in delighting and sustaining the human condition throughout the ages. This short work investigates the various meanings gardens have had for the eighteenth-century Swedish philosopher and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg and what meanings they might hold in turn for his readers.

Author: James John Garth Wilkinson
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Languages : en
Pages : 74

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Author: Thomas Oliver PRESCOTT (afterwards HILLER (Oliver Prescott))
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Author: Emanuel Swedenborg
Publisher: Swedenborg Foundation
ISBN: 9780854481552
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The Five Ages: Swedenborg's View of Spiritual History presents a compelling spiritual and psychological history of human evolution through extracts from the works of the eighteenth-century Swedish philosopher and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg, neatly linking them with an engaging and informative commentary that places the ideas within the context of modern historical and archaeological knowledge.

Author: Ursula Groll
Publisher: Swedenborg Foundation
ISBN: 9780877853039
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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At the intersection of science and spirituality, the theology of Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) shows a remarkable harmony with new discoveries in physics and quantum science. Author Ursula Groll draws the two together to reveal a timeless quest for truth.

Author: Emanuel Swedenborg
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1625583931
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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In Divine Love and Wisdom, Swedenborg uses reason and empirical facts to prove the existence of God and God's divine love. He further posits that we are all an essential part of God's Divine plan, and that without us God's plan could not come to fruition.