Emanuel Swedenborg

{{longitem|Portrait of Swedenborg {{nowrap|by [[Carl Frederik von Breda]]}}}} Emanuel Swedenborg (, ; born Emanuel Swedberg; 29 March 1772) was a Swedish Christian theologian, scientist, philosopher and mystic. He became best known for his book on the afterlife, ''Heaven and Hell'' (1758).

Swedenborg had a prolific career as an inventor and scientist. In 1741, at 53, he entered into a spiritual phase in which he began to experience dreams and visions, notably on Easter Weekend, on 6 April 1744. His experiences culminated in a "spiritual awakening" in which he received a revelation that Jesus Christ had appointed him to write ''The Heavenly Doctrine'' to reform Christianity. According to ''The Heavenly Doctrine'', the Lord had opened Swedenborg's spiritual eyes so that from then on, he could freely visit heaven and hell to converse with angels, demons and other spirits, and that the Last Judgment had already occurred in 1757, the year before the 1758 publication of ''De Nova Hierosolyma et ejus doctrina coelesti'' (English: ''Concerning the New Jerusalem and its Heavenly Doctrine'').

Over the last 28 years of his life, Swedenborg wrote 18 published theological works—and several more that remained unpublished. He termed himself a "Servant of the Lord Jesus Christ" in ''True Christian Religion'', which he published himself. Some followers of ''The Heavenly Doctrine'' believe that of his theological works, only those that were published by Swedenborg himself are fully divinely inspired. Others have regarded all Swedenborg's theological works as equally inspired, saying for example that the fact that some works were "not written out in a final edited form for publication does not make a single statement less trustworthy than the statements in any of the other works". The New Church, also known as Swedenborgianism, is a Restorationist denomination of Christianity originally founded in 1787 and comprising several historically related Christian churches that revere Swedenborg's writings as revelation. Provided by Wikipedia
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    by Swedenborg, Emanuel, 1688-1772
    Published 1880
    Frankfurt am Main : J.G. Mittnacht, 1880.
    x, 720 p. ; 22 cm.
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    by Swedenborg, Emanuel, 1688-1772
    Published 1960
    München : A. Schubert, 1960.
    149 p. : facsims. ; 21 cm.
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    by Swedenborg, Emanuel, 1688-1772
    Published 1855
    Boston, Otis Clapp, 1855.
    48 p.
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    by Swedenborg, Emanuel, 1688-1772
    Published 1856
    Boston : O. Clapp, 1856.
    574 p., [1] leaf of plates : port. ; 26 cm.
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    by Swedenborg, Emanuel, 1688-1772
    Published 1830
    Boston, Adonis Howard, 1830-
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    by Swedenborg, Emanuel, 1688-1772
    Published 1905
    New York : C. Scribner's Sons, 1905.
    xxv, 71 p. ; 19 cm.
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    by Swedenborg, Emanuel, 1688-1772
    Published 1928
    Bryn Athyn, Pa. : Academy of the New Church, 1928.
    398 p., 10 leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
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    by Swedenborg, Emanuel, 1688-1772
    Published 1788
    London : W. Chalklen, 1788.
    xxii, 461 p. ; 20 cm.
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    by Swedenborg, Emanuel, 1688-1772
    Published 1865
    New York, General Convention of the New Jerusalem Church in the United States of America, 1865.
    35 p.
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    by Swedenborg, Emanuel, 1688-1772
    Published 1858
    New York, General Convention of the New Jerusalem Church in the United States, 1858.
    94 p.
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    by Swedenborg, Emanuel, 1688-1772
    Published 1872
    Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1872.
    xvi, 613 p. 24 cm.
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    by Swedenborg, Emanuel, 1688-1772
    Published 1879
    Philadelphia : Lippincott, 1879, c1874.
    1202 p. ; 20 cm.
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    by Swedenborg, Emanuel, 1688-1772
    Published 1883
    Philadelphia : New Church Tract and Publication Society, [1883?]
    116, iv p. ; 15 cm.
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    by Swedenborg, Emanuel, 1688-1772
    Published 1851
    Manchester, Eng., Manchester New Jerusalem Church Tract Society, 1851.
    112 p.
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    by Swedenborg, Emanuel, 1688-1772
    Published 1838
    Boston : O. Clapp, [1838?]
    35p. ; 19cm.
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    by Swedenborg, Emanuel, 1688-1772
    Published 1951
    Mumbaī : Hindī Svīḍanabôrga Sosāyaṭī, 1951.
    118 p. ; 17 cm.
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    by Swedenborg, Emanuel, 1688-1772
    Published 1997
    Stockholm : Natur och kultur, c1997.
    260 p. ; 18 cm.
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    by Swedenborg, Emanuel, 1688-1772
    Published 1907
    New York : The New Church Board of Publication, 1907.
    xxxvi, 77 p. ; 18 cm.
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    by Swedenborg, Emanuel, 1688-1772
    Published 1852
    Manchester, Eng., Manchester New Jerusalem Church Tract Society, 1852.
    92, 48 p.
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    by Swedenborg, Emanuel, 1688-1772
    Published 1949
    Marburg/Lahn : Simons=Verlag, 1949.
    viii, 288 p. ; 22 cm.
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