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Swedenborgian
Primary and historical works associated with Emanuel Swedenborg and the Swedenborgian or New Church tradition.
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Apocalypse Explained — Emanuel SwedenborgEmanuel Swedenborg's vast unfinished verse-by-verse exposition of the Book of Revelation, written 1757-59 and left unpublished at a fraction complete, in John Whitehead's 1911 translation.Apocalypse Revealed — Emanuel SwedenborgEmanuel Swedenborg's complete verse-by-verse exposition of the Book of Revelation, published in his lifetime in 1766, in John Whitehead's 1912 translation.Arcana Coelestia — Emanuel SwedenborgEmanuel Swedenborg's magnum opus, an exhaustive verse-by-verse exposition of the inner spiritual sense he read within the books of Genesis and Exodus, written 1749-56, in John F. Potts's 1905-10 translation.Athanasian Creed — Emanuel SwedenborgSwedenborg's unfinished posthumous notebook working through the Athanasian Creed's Trinity as a single Divine Person in the Lord, preserved as his own draft notes rather than a finished treatise, in Samuel H. Worcester's 1885 translation.Canons — Emanuel SwedenborgSwedenborg's unfinished five-part outline of New Church theology on God, the Redeemer, Redemption, the Holy Spirit, and the Divine Trinity, missing several chapters in the surviving autograph, in John Whitehead's 1914 translation.Charity — Emanuel SwedenborgSwedenborg's unfinished posthumous treatise on charity as neighborly use, surviving as two successive draft passes, in John Whitehead's 1914 translation.Conjugial Love — Emanuel SwedenborgSwedenborg's treatise on marriage love and its opposite, with the appended Pleasures of Insanity Pertaining to Scortatory Love, anonymous 1892 translation.De Conjugio — Emanuel SwedenborgSwedenborg's posthumous 1766 working notes on conjugial love and its opposite, adultery, in John Whitehead's 1914 translation.De Domino — Emanuel SwedenborgSwedenborg's short posthumous draft notebook on the divinity and glorification of the Lord's Human, in Samuel H. Worcester's 1885 translation.De Verbo — Emanuel SwedenborgSwedenborg's unfinished posthumous treatise on the Word's literal, spiritual, and celestial senses, breaking off mid-chapter in the surviving manuscript, in John Whitehead's 1914 translation.Divine Love and Wisdom — Emanuel SwedenborgSwedenborg's treatise on God as Divine Love and Divine Wisdom and the discrete degrees of creation, in John C. Ager's 1890 translation.Earths in the Universe — Emanuel SwedenborgSwedenborg's visionary account of the inhabitants of the other planets of our solar system and of five further earths in the starry heaven, in John Whitehead's 1892 translation.God the Savior — Emanuel SwedenborgSwedenborg's unfinished forty-eight-point outline on the oneness of God and the divine-human nature of the Savior, in John Whitehead's 1914 translation.Interaction of the Soul and Body — Emanuel SwedenborgSwedenborg's short 1769 treatise arguing for spiritual influx between soul and body, against physical influx and pre-established harmony, in John Whitehead's 1892 translation.Invitation to the New Church — Emanuel SwedenborgA short, unfinished 1771 draft by Swedenborg on the union of God and Man in the Lord and the desolation and renewal of the church, in John Whitehead's 1914 translation.Last Judgment — Emanuel SwedenborgSwedenborg's 1758 account of the Last Judgment as an event in the spiritual world in 1757, and its effects on the Reformed, Papists, Mohammedans, and Gentiles there, in John Whitehead's 1892 translation.Last Judgment Continued — Emanuel SwedenborgSwedenborg's continuation of his account of the Last Judgment in the spiritual world, describing the afterlife societies of the English, Dutch, Papists, Mohammedans, Africans, Jews, Quakers, and Moravians, in John Whitehead's 1892 translation.Last Judgment Posthumous — Emanuel SwedenborgEmanuel Swedenborg's posthumous manuscript notes on the Last Judgment in the spiritual world, in John Whitehead's 1914 translation.Prophets and Psalms — Emanuel SwedenborgEmanuel Swedenborg's chapter-by-chapter key to the spiritual sense of the Old Testament prophets and Psalms, in J.E. Schreck's 1900 translation.Spiritual Diary — Emanuel SwedenborgEmanuel Swedenborg's private working journal of his experiences in the spiritual world, kept from 1747 to 1765 and never intended for publication, in the 1883-9 English translation by Bush, Smithson, and Buss.The Four Doctrines — Emanuel SwedenborgSwedenborg's four short summary doctrines -- the Lord, the Sacred Scripture, Life, and Faith -- in John F. Potts's 1904 translation, collected as traditionally published together.The Gist of Swedenborg — Julian K. Smyth and William F. WunschA 1920 topical digest of Emanuel Swedenborg's theology, compiled by Julian K. Smyth and William F. Wunsch from his Latin theological works.The New Jerusalem and its Heavenly Doctrine — Emanuel SwedenborgEmanuel Swedenborg's 1758 summary of the core doctrines of the New Church -- the Lord, the Word, faith, charity, free will, and the sacraments -- in John Whitehead's 1892 translation.White Horse — Emanuel SwedenborgSwedenborg's exposition of the white horse of Revelation 19 as the understanding of the Word, with his own digest of related Arcana Coelestia teaching on Scripture's internal sense, in John Whitehead's 1892 translation.