Swedenborgian Church

By Grechen Eckhardt

 

 

BOOKS

 

Scholarly Primary Sources by Emanuel Swedenborg

 

Fischer, Robert S. comp.  Commentary on the Book of the Prophet Ezekiel: Compiled  from the Theological Works of Emanuel Swedenborg.  Boston: Massachusetts  New Church Union, 1925.

Fischer, Robert S. and Louis G. Hoeck.  comp.  Commentary on the Gospel According to  Matthew: Compiled from the Theological Works of Emanuel Swedenborg. Boston: Massachusetts New Church Union, 1906.

Smyth, Julian K. and William F. Wunsch. comp. The Gist of Swedenborg.  Philadelphia:  J.B. Lippincott, 1920.

Swedenborg, Emanuel.  A Dictionary of Correspondences, Representatives, and Significatives, Derived from the Word of the Lord, Extracted from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg.  Boston: Otis Clapp, 1841. 

---.  A Summary Exposition of the Internal Sense; of the Prophetical Books of the Word of the Old Testament, the Psalms of David and a Part of Genesis, from the Latin of  the Posthumous Work.  London: Swedenborg Society, 1912.

---.  A Treatise on the Divine Trinity: Together with an Account of  Wonderful Things  Seen in the Spiritual World: Extracted from the True Christian Religion,  Containing the Universal Theology of the New Church.  Philadelphia: [s.n.], 1817.

---.  Angelic Wisdom about the Divine Providence. New York: Swedenborg Foundation, 1961.

---.  Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Providence. London: Swedenborg  Society, 1934.

---.  Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and Wisdom. Trans. John C. Ager.  West Chester, PA: Swedenborg Foundation, 1995.

---.  Apocalypse Explained.  Trans. J. Whitehead. 6 vols.  New York: Swedenborg  Foundation, 1911.

---.  Apocalypse Revealed.  Trans. F. Coulson.  2 vols. London: Swedenborg Society, 1970.

---.  Arcana Cælestia. Vol. 1.  London: Swedenborg Society, 1983.

---.  Charity: The Practice of Neighborliness.  Trans. William F. Wunsch. Ed. William Ross Woofenden.  West Chester, PA: Swedenborg Foundation, 1995.

---.  Conversations with Angels: What Swedenborg Heard in Heaven.  West Chester, PA:  Chrysalis Books, 1996. 

---.  The Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom. London: Swedenborg Society, 1969.

---.  Doctrine of Faith.  Trans. and Ed. J. Potts.  New York: Swedenborg Foundation,  1904.

---.  Doctrine of the Holy Scripture.  Trans. and Ed. J. Potts.  New York: Swedenborg  Foundation, 1904. 

---.  Doctrine of Life.  Trans. and Ed. J. Potts.  New York: Swedenborg Foundation,  1904.

---.  Doctrine of the Lord.  Trans. and Ed. J. Potts.  New York: Swedenborg Foundation, 1904.

---.  Divine Providence.  Trans. W. Wunsch.  New York: Swedenborg Foundation, 1963.

---.  Foundation Truths of the Christian Religion: Passages Selected from the Theological  Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg.  London: Swedenborg Society, 1901.

---.  Four Doctrines: With the Nine Questions.  Trans. John Faulkner Potts.  West Chester, PA: Swedenborg Foundation, 1997.

---.  Heaven and Hell: Things Heard and Seen. London: Frederick Warne and Company,  n.d.

---.  Heaven and its Wonders and Hell from Things Heard and Seen.  London: Swedenborg Society, 1966.

---.  Heavenly Doctrine. London: Swedenborg Society, 1873.

---.  Hell and its Miseries.  New York: J. Allen, 1846.

---.  Ludus Heliconius: and Other Latin Poems.  Trans. and Ed. Hans Helander.  Uppsala:  Uppsala University, n.d.

---.  Rational Psychology: A Posthumous Work Written in 1742.  Trans. Norbert H.  Rogers and Alfred Acton. Ed. Alfred Acton.  Bryn Athyns, PA: Swedenborg  Scientific Association, 2001.

---.  Scientific and Philosophical Treatises, 1716-1740.  Ed. Alfred Henry Stroh.  Bryn Athyns, PA: Swedenborg Scientific Association, 1992.

---.  Scripture Confirmations of New Church of Doctrine. London: Swedenborg  Society, 1906.

---.  Swedenborg's Journal of Dreams, 1743-1744.  Ed. William Ross Woofenden.  Bryn  Athyns, PA: Swedenborg Scientific Association, 1989.

---.  Swedenborg's Writings and Catholic Teaching: or, A voice from the New Church Porch, in Answer to a Series of Articles on the Swedenborgians by the Vicar of  Froome-Selwood, in the Old Church Porch.  London: Wm. W. Whithe, 1868.

---.  The Apocalypse Explained According to the Spiritual Sense in Which the Arcana  There Predicted but Heretofore Concealed are Revealed.  New York: Swedenborg Foundation, 1954-59.

---. The Athanasian Creed: An Unpublished Manuscript.  Trans. Doris H. Harley.  London: Swedenborg Society, 1954.

---.  The Delights of Wisdom on the Subject of Conjugial Love; Followed by the Gross  Pleasures of Folly on the Subject of Scortatory Love. Trans. John Chadwick.  London: Swedenborg Society, 1996.

---. The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Concerning the Sacred Scripture.  New York: American Swedenborg Printing and Publishing Society, 1892.

---.  The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Concerning the Lord.  Boston: Thomas Hall, 1795.

---.  The Essential Swedenborg: Basic Teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg, Scientist,  Philosopher, and Theologian.  Ed. Sig Synnestvedt.  New York: Swedenborg  Foundation, 1970. 

---.  The Four Leading Doctrines of the New Church, Signified by the New Jerusalem in the Revelation: Being Those Concerning the Lord; the Sacred Scripture; Faith; and Life.  New York: American Swedenborg Printing and Publishing Society,  1909.

---.  The Heavenly City: A Spiritual Guidebook.  Trans. Lee Woofenden.  West Chester,  PA: Swedenborg Foundation, 1993.

---.  The Last Judgment in Retrospect: from de Ultimo Judicio et Babylonia Destructa.  Trans. and Ed. George F. Dole.  West Chester, PA: Swedenborg Foundation,  1996.

---.  The Living Thoughts of Swedenborg: Presented by Eric A. Sutton.  London: Cassell, 1947.

---.  The New Century Edition of the Works of Emanuel Swedenborg.  West Chester, PA:  Swedenborg Foundation Publishers, 2000.

---.  The Path of Life: Compiled from the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1913.

---.  The Pathway of Angels: A Lecture. Boston: [s.n.], 1881.

 ---.  The Spiritual Life and the Word of God.  New York: American Swedenborg Printing and Publishing Society, 1898.

---.  The True Christian Religion.  London: Swedenborg Society, 1890.

---.  The True Christian Religion. Vol.1.  London: Swedenborg Society, 1988.

---.  The True Christian Religion. Vol.2.  London: Swedenborg Society, 1988.

---.  The Universal Human and Soul-Body Interaction.  Trans. and Ed. George F. Dole. New York: Paulist Press, 1984.

---.  The Useful Life: A Crown to the Simple Life.  New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1905.

---.  The World of Spirits and Man’s State after Death.  Trans. John C. Ager.  New York:  Swedenborg Foundation, 1940.

---. The Wisdom of Angels, Concerning Divine Love and Divine Wisdom.  Boston: Isaiah  Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews, 1794.

---.  The Worship and Love of God.  Trans. Alfred H. Stroh and Frank Sewall.  Boston: Lydia S. Rotch Trustees, 1925.

---.  Theological Works.  Boston: Mifflin, 1907

---.  Three Transactions on the Cerebrum.  Ed. Alfred Acton. Philadelphia: Swedenborg Scientific Association, 1938.

The Collected Works of Emanuel Swedenborg.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin, n.d.

Wunsch, William F. comp.  Swedenborg on Marriage.  New York: New Church Press,  1924.

 

Popular Primary Sources of the Swedenborgian Church

 

Foundation Truths of the Christian Religion. Passages from the Theological Writings of  Emanuel Swedenborg. London: Swedenborg Society, 1901.

 

Letters and Memorials of Emanuel Swedenborg.  Trans. and Ed. A. Acton.  2 vols.  Bryn Athyns, PA: Swedenborg Scientific Association, 1948.

 

Swedenborgian Association.  Prospectus of the Swedenborgian Association.  London:  Walton and Mitchell, n.d.

 

Swedenborg Foundation.  Swedenborg Studies.  New York: Swedenborg Foundation,  1992.

 

---.  The Swedenborg Student.  New York: Swedenborg Foundation, 1920-1953.

 

Scholarly Secondary Sources about the Swedenborgian Church

 

America’s Alternative Religions.  Ed. Timothy Miller.  Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995.

 

American Religious Creeds.  Ed. J. Gordon Melton.  New York: Truimph Books, 1991.

 

Beaman, Edmund A.  Swedenborg and the New Age, or, "The Holy City New Jerusalem."  New York: AMS Press, 1971.

 

Benz, Ernst.  Emanuel Swedenborg: Visionary Savant in the Age of Reason.  Trans. Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke.  West Chester, PA: Swedenborg Foundation, 2002.

 

Brock, Erland J.  Swedenborg and His Influence.  Bryn Athyns, PA: Academy of the  New Church, 1988. 

 

Bush, George.  Mesmer and Swedenborg, or, The Relation of the Developments of  Mesmerism to the Doctrines and Disclosures of Swedenborg.  New York: J. Allen, 1847.

 

---.  Reasons for Embracing the Doctrines and Disclosures of Emanuel Swedenborg. Manchester: New Jerusalem Church Printing and Tract Society, 1885.

 

---.  Reply to Rev. Dr. Woods' "Lecture on Swedenborgianism.”  New York: J. Allen,  1847.

 

---.  Selections from the Memorabilia of Swedenborg: Illustrative of His Doctrines and  Disclosures.  New York: J. Allen, 1848.

 

Contemporary American Religion.  Ed. Wade Clark Roof.  New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2000.

 

Hallengren, Anders.  Gallery of Mirrors: Reflections of Swedenborgian Thought.  West Chester, PA: Swedenborg Foundation, 1998.

 

Jonsson, Inge.  Emanuel Swedenborg.  Trans. Catherine Djurklou.  New York: Twayne Publishers, 1971.

 

Mead, Frank S.  Handbook of Denominations in the United States.  Nashville: Abindgon Press, 1995.

 

Melton, J. Gordon.  Encyclopedia of American Religions.  Detriot: Gale Research, 1999. 

 

---.  The Encyclopedic Handbook of Cults in America.  New York: Garland Publishing,  1986.

 

Perspectives on the New Age.  Ed. James R. Lewis and J. Gordon Melton.  Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992.

 

Swedenborg and His Influence.  Ed. Erland R. Brock.  Bryn Athyns, PA: Academy of the New Church, 1988.

 

Toksvig, Signe.  Emanuel Swedenborg, Scientist and Mystic.  New Haven: Yale  University Press, 1948.

 

Trobridge, George.  A Life of Emanuel Swedenborg; with a Popular Exposition of his Philosophical and Theological Teachings.  London: Swedenborg Society, 1920.

 

---.  Swedenborg: Life and Teaching.  New York: Swedenborg Foundation, 1949.

 

Van Dusen, Wilson.  The Presence of Other Worlds: The Psychological/Spiritual Findings of Emanuel Swedenborg.  New York: Harper and Row, 1974.

 

Wilkinson, Lynn Rosellen.  The Dream of an Absolute Language: Emanuel Swedenborg  and French Literary Culture.  Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996.

 

Woofenden, William Ross.  Swedenborg Explorer's Guidebook: A Research Manual for  Inquiring New Readers, Seekers of Spiritual Ideas, and Writers of  Swendenborgian Treatises. West Chester, PA: Swedenborg Foundation  Publishers, 2002.

 

 

Popular Secondary Sources about the Swedenborgian Church

 

A Compendious View and Brief Defense of the Peculiar and Leading Doctrines of the  New Jerusalem Church.  Baltimore: Samuel Sower, 1798.

 

A Short Account of the Honourable Emanuel Swedenborg, and His Theological Writings. Baltimore: Samuel and John Adams, 1792.

 

A Sketch of Swedenborg, and Swedenborgians.  Boston: Otis Clapp, 1842.

 

An  Investigation of the Doctrine of Baron Swedenborg, or of the Church Called, New  Jerusalem, in Two Letters, Addressed to the Rev. Mr. H----.  Baltimore: Samuel  Sower, 1799. 

 

Anton, Jose A.  Visionary Consciousness: Emanuel Swedenborg and the Immanence of  Spiritual Reality.  Trans. Robert E. Shillenn.  Charleston, SC: Arcana Books,  2000.

 

Arbouin, James.  Dissertation on the Regenerate Life in Harmony with the Theological Views of Baron Swedenborg, the Undoubted Messenger of our Lord's Second  Advent: to which is Prefixed a Short Account of the Life of Baron Swedenborg. Philadelphia: Anderson and Meehan, 1817.

 

Bishop, Paul.  Synchronicity and Intellectual Intuition in Kant, Swedenborg, and Jung. New York: Mellen Press, 2000.

 

Block, Marguerite.  The New Church in the New World.  New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984.

 

Chrysalis: Journal of the Swedenborg Foundation.  Ed. Carol S. Lawson.  New York: Swedenborg Foundation, 1986.

 

Clowes, John.  A Letter of Exhortation and Admonition: to All Such as Cordially Receive the Testimony of that Divinely Illuminated, and Highly-Commissioned Messenger and Teacher of Truth, Emanuel Swedenborg.  Philadelphia: Frances Bailey, 1795.

 

---.  Remarks on the Assertions of the Author of the Memoirs of Jacobinism Respecting the Character of Emanuel Swedenborg and the Tendency of his  Writings.  Philadelphia: [s.n.], 1800.

 

de Charms, George.  The Distinctions of the New Church.  Bryn Athyns, PA: Academy Book Room, 1962.

 

---.  The Holy Supper.  Bryn Athyns, PA: General Church Publication Committee, 1961.

 

Documents on Swedenborg: Documents Concerning the Life and Character of Emanuel Swedenborg.  Trans. R. L. Tafel.  London: Swedenborg Society, 1875.

 

Dole, George F.  With Absolute Respect: The Swedenborgian Theology of Charles  Carroll Bonney.  West Chester, PA: Swedenborg Foundation, 1993.

 

Ellis, John.  Skepticism, Divine Revelation, and Call to the New Jerusalem.  New York: John Ellis, 1879.

 

Emanuel Swedenborg: A Continuing Vision, A Pictorial Biography & Anthology of  Essays & Poetry.  Ed. Robin Larsen, et al.  New York: Swedenborg Foundation,  1988.

 

Gardiner, Harold.  Some Modern Ideas of the Nature of the Universe: Compared with  Swedenborg's Philosophical Conceptions.  London: Swedenborg Society, 1936.

 

Griffith, Freda G.  The Swedenborg Society, 1810-1960.  London: Swedenborg Society, 1960.

 

Gutry, Norman Ramson.  Regeneration: An Exposition of Swedenborg's Doctrine. Oberlin: [s.n.], 1938.

 

Handbook of the Lord’s New Church Which Is Nova Hierosolyma.  Bryn Athyns, PA: Lord’s  New Church Which is Nova Hierosolyma, 1985.

 

Haseltine, M. W.  A Great Thinker, Being a Reprint of the Articles Published in the New  York Sun, September 6 and 13, 1908 on Emanuel Swedenborg and his Works. Boston: Rotch Trustees, 1909.

 

Hempel, Charles Julius.  The True Organization of the New Church, as Indicated in the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg, and Demonstrated by Charles Fourier.  New York: W. Radde, 1848.

 

Hiller, Margaret.  Religion and Philosophy United, or, An Attempt to Shew that Philosophical Principles form the Foundation of the New Jerusalem Church.  Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1817.

 

Hiller, Oliver Prescott.  Some Account of Emanuel Swedenborg and His Writings.  Boston: Otis Clapp, 1854.

 

Hite, Lewis Field.  Swedenborg's Historical Position, Containing the Testimonies of Eminent Men of his Own and Subsequent Times.  Boston: Massachusetts New Church Union, 1928.

 

Hobart, Nathaniel.  Life of Emanuel Swedenborg, with Some Account of his

  Writings.  Boston: Carter, 1845.

 

Horton, Walter Marshall.  The Significance of Swedenborg for Contemporary Theology.  New York: Swedenborg Publishing Association, 1938.

 

Hyde, John.  Emanuel Swedenborg, a Lecture.  London: James Speirs, 1872.

 

James, Henry.  The Secret of Swedenborg: Being an Elucidation of His Doctrine of the Divine Natural Humanity.  Boston: Fields, 1869.

 

Keller, Helen.  Light in My Darkness.  Ed. Ray Silverman.  West Chester, PA: Chrysalis Books, 2000.

 

Keyes, E. R.  Wesley and Swedenborg: A Fraternal Appeal to Methodist Ministers,  Inviting them to Consider the Relations of Methodism to the New Church.  Philadelphia:  J.B. Lippincott, 1872.

 

Lamm, Martin.  Emanuel Swedenborg: The Development of His Thought.  Trans. Tomas Spiers and Anders Hallengren.  West Chester, PA: Swedenborg Foundation, 2000.

 

Lawson, Carol and Robert Lawson.  Seeing Through Symbols: Insights into Spirit.  West Chester, PA: Swedenborg, 1998.

 

Layman.  Letters to a Friend: Containing Remarks on the Rev. W. Roby’s Late Pamphlet, Entitled Anti-Swedenborgianism.  Manchester: J. Slack, 1820.

 

Letter to a Swedenborgian.  New York: J. Allen, 1847.

 

Liturgy and Hymnal.  Bryn Athyns, PA: General Church of the New Jerusalem, 1966.

 

Mahin, R. Newton.  From Swedenborg: An Outline of Emanuel Swedenborg’s Latin Testament.  New York: Greenwich Books, 1959.

 

Myers, Mary Ann.  A New World Jerusalem: The Swedenborgian Experience in  Community Construction.  Westport: Greenwood Press, 1983.

 

Parsons, Theophilus.  Outlines of the Religion and Philosophy of Swendenborg.  New  York: New Church Board of Publication, 1903.

 

Pitcairn, Theodore.  My Lord and My God.  New York: Exposition Press, 1967.

 

---.  The Book Sealed with Seven Seals.  Bryn Athyns, PA: Cathedral Book Room, 1927.

 

Pond, Enoch.  Swedenborgianism Reviewed.  Portland: [s.n.], 1846.    

 

Ramstrom, Martin.  Emanuel Swedenborg's Investigations in Natural Science and the Basis for his Statements Concerning the Functions of the Brain.  Uppsala:  University of Uppsala, 1910.

 

Reed, Sampson.  Sampson Reed: Primary Source Material for Emerson Studies.  New  York: Swedenborg Foundation, 1992.

 

Reed, James.  Swedenborg and the New Church.  Boston: Massachusetts New Church  Union, 1881.

 

Rooted in Spirit: A Harvest of Women’s Wisdom.  Ed. Alice B. Skinner.  West Chester,  PA: Chrysalis Books, 1999.

 

Sigstedt, Cyriel Sigrid Ljungberg Odhner.  The Swedenborg Epic; The Life and Works of Emanuel Swedenborg.  New York: Bookman Associates, 1952.

 

Spalding, John Howard.  Introduction to Swedenborg's Religious Thought.  New York: Swedenborg Publisher, 1956.

 

Sewall, Frank.  Swedenborg and the ‘Sapientia Angelica.’  London: Constable Company, 1910.

 

Sutton, Eric A.  The Happy Isles: The Story of Swedenborg.  London: J.M. Dent and Sons, 1938.

 

The General Church of the New Jerusalem, A Handbook of General Information.  Bryn  Athyns, PA: General Church Publication Committee, 1965.

 

 The Liturgy of the New Church, signified by the New Jerusalem in the Revelation.

Together with the forms for the administration of baptism and the Holy Supper: and a catechism for the use of the New Church.  Also, Hymns and Spiritual Songs, by the Rev. Mr. Joseph Proud, Minister of the New Church.  Baltimore: Samuel and John Adams, 1792.

 

Very, Frank W.  An Epitome of Swedenborg's Science.  Boston: Four Seas, 1927.

 

A Glass from the Book, Historical Fact, and Ocular Demonstration: Showing the  Mysteries of the Late Emanuel Swedenborg. Philadelphia: William Fry and  Thomas Dobson, 1817.

 

Warren, Samuel M.  A Compendium of the Theological Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg.  London: Swedenborg Society, 1909.

 

What the Writings Testify Concerning Themselves.  Bryn Athyns, PA: General Church  Publication Committee, 1961.

 

White, William M.  Life of Emanuel Swedenborg, Together with a Brief Synopsis of his Writing, both Philosophical and Theological.  Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1883.

 

Worcester, Benjamin.  Swedenborg: Harbinger of the New Age of the Christian Church. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1910.

 

---.  The Life and Mission of Emanuel Swedenborg.  Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1883.

 

Wunsch, William F.  An Outline of New-Church Teaching, with Illustrative Standard  Passages. New York: New Church Press, 1926.

 

---.  A Practical Philosophy of Life, as Gathered from the Writings of Swedenborg.  New  York: New Church Press, 1937.

 

Zacharias, Paul.  Insights into the Beyond.  New York: Swedenborg Publishing Association, n.d.

 

ARTICLES

 

Scholarly Primary Sources about the Swedenborgian Church

 

Altschule, Mark D.  “Swedenborg and Stahl: Opposite--and Wrong--Sides of the Same Coin.”  Studia Swedenborgiana 6 (1988): 72-82.

 

Benz, Ernst and George F. Dole.  “Swedenborg as a Spiritual Pathfinder of German  Idealism and Romanticism.”  Studia Swedenborgiana 11 (2000): 61-76.

 

Chadwick, John.  “The Translator and Swedenborg's Latin Text.”  Studia Swedenborgiana 9 (1994): 59-70.

 

Cooper, Lisa Hyatt.  “Problems of Scriptural Translation in Swedenborg's Writings.” Studia Swedenborgiana 9 (1994): 44-57.

 

Dole, Andrew.  “Re-Evaluating Allegorical Interpretation in Swedenborg.”  Studia Swedenborgiana 10 (1997): 41-71.

 

Goerwitz, Richard L.  “Thoughts on Early Modern Hieroglyphic Theories and Their Impact on Swedenborg's Intellectual Milieu.”  Studia Swedenborgiana 6 (1988): 5-34.

 

Hall, Dorothy Judd.  “The Mystic Lens of Robert Frost: Bent Rays from Swedenborg.” Studia Swedenborgiana 9 (1994): 1-26.

 

Hallengren, Anders and George F. Dole.  “Carl Robsahm on Swedenborg.”  Studia Swedenborgiana 9 (1994): 27-43.

 

Helander, Hans and George F. Dole.  “Swedenborg's Latin.”  Studia Swedenborgiana 8 (1993): 21-48.

 

Johnson, Gregory R.  “Kant on Swedenborg in the Lectures on Metaphysics.”  Studia Swedenborgiana 10 (1997): 11-39.

 

King, Kristin.  “The Power and Limitations of Language in Swedenborg, Shakespeare,  and Frost.”  Studia Swedenborgiana 11 (1999): 1-63.

 

Kirven, Robert H.  “Theological Context of the Life and Work of Emanuel Swedenborg.”  Studia Swedenborgiana 5 (1986): 7-22.

 

Koke, Steve.  “Closing the Circle: the Influence of Eighteenth Century Astronomy and Philosophy on Swedenborg's Earths in the Universe.”  Studia Swedenborgiana 6  (1987): 23-60.

 

Lawrence, James F.  “Swedenborg's Trail in the Coleridgean Landscape.”  Studia Swedenborgiana 11 (1999): 55-66.

 

Martin, Rachel.  “Transpersonalism, Healing, and Swedenborg.”  Studia Swedenborgiana  5 (1983): 5-29.

 

McCluskey, Robert.  “Luther, Swedenborg and the Modern Appearance of Freedom.” Studia Swedenborgiana 8 (1993): 1-19.

 

Prickett, Stephen.  “Swedenborg, Blake, Joachim and the Idea of a New Era.”  Studia Swedenborgiana 7 (1992): 1-30.

 

Rose, Jonathan S.  “The Portion of the Mountain Yet Unclimbed: My Vision for a New Library Edition of Swedenborg.”  Studia Swedenborgiana 10 (1998): 1-21.

 

Stanley, Michael W.  “The Problem of the Origin of Evil--A Swedenborgian Solution.”  Studia Swedenborgiana 8 (1994): 1-21.

 

Swedenborg, Emanuel.  “Angelic Wisdom about Divine Love and Wisdom.”  Studia Swedenborgiana 5 (1984): 29-73.

 

---.  “Speaking and Writing in Heaven.”  New England Review 20 (1999): 177-179.

 

Taylor, Eugene.  “Jung and His Intellectual Context: The Swedenborgian Connection.” Studia  Swedenborgiana 7 (1991): 47-69.

 

VanDusen, Wilson.  “Swedenborg's Spiritual Method.”  Studia Swedenborgiana 7  (1991): 3-19.

 

---.  “The Essence of Human Individuality.”  Studia Swedenborgiana 11 (2000): 1-19.

 

Walsh, Arlene M. Sanchez.  “Warren F. Evans, Emanuel Swedenborg, and the Creation of New Thought.”  Studia Swedenborgiana 10 (1997): 13-35.

 

Weiss, Jan H.  “Acquiring the Facts about Swedenborg's Teachings: The Grandman  Search Program.”  Studia Swedenborgiana 8 (1993): 78-82.

 

Wiebe, Phillip H.  “Christic Visions in Swedenborgian Tradition.”  Studia  Swedenborgiana 11 (1999): 9-27.

 

Woofenden, Lee.  “New Jerusalem and its Philosophy from Heaven.”  Studia Swedenborgiana 6 (1989): 5-41.

 

Woofenden, William Ross.  “Emanuel Swedenborg and the Philosophy of Time.”  Studia Swedenborgiana 10 (1998): 23-63.

 

---.  “Swedenborg's Use of Language.”  Studia Swedenborgiana 5 (1986): 42-51.

 

---.  “Swedenborgian Psychology.”  Studia Swedenborgiana 8 (1993): 1-42.

 

Scholarly Secondary Sources about the Swedenborgian Church

 

Baker, Gregory L.  “A Dualistic Model of Ultimate Reality and Meaning: Self-Similarity in Chaotic Dynamics and Swedenborg.”  Ultimate Reality and Meaning 17 (1994): 184-196.

 

Bednarowski, M. F. “A New World Jerusalem: The Swedenborgian Experience in  Community Construction.”  Journal of the American Academy of Religion 52 (1984): 600-601.

 

Bradford, David T.  “Neuropsychology of Swedenborg's Visions.”  Perceptual and Motor Skill 88 (1999): 377-383.

 

Donovan, Josephine.  “Jewett and Swedenborg.”  American Literature 65 (1993): 731-751. 

 

Denovan, William.  “A Swedenborgian View of the Problem of Philosophy.”  Mind 14  (1889): 216-229.

 

Duker, Abraham G.  “Swedenborg's Attitude Towards the Jews.”  Judaism 5 (1956): 272-276.

 

Gabay, Al J.  “Alfred Deakin and Swedenborg: An Australian Experience.”  Journal of Religious History 16 (1990): 74-90.

 

Garofalo, Denise A.  “Splendor of the Spirit: Swedenborg's Quest for Insight.”  Library Journal 126 (2001): 179.

 

Garrett, Clarke.  “Swedenborg and the Mystical Enlightenment in Late Eighteenth- Century England.”  Journal of the History of Ideas  45 (1984): 67-81.

 

Gupta, Brijen K.  “Ethical System in Sankara and Swedenborg: a Comparative Analysis.”  Indian Journal of Theology 22 (1973): 163-177.

 

Haraldsson, Erlendur.  “Swedenborg and His Influence.”  Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 29 (1990): 277-278.

 

Liebert, Arthur.  “Contemporary German Philosophy.”  The Philosophical Review 38  (1929): 539-556.

 

Lineham, Peter J.  “The Origins of the New Jerusalem Church in the 1780s.”  Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 70 (1988): 109-122.

 

Loth, Heinz J.  “The Swedenborgian Background of William James' Philosophy.” Zeitschrift fur Religions—und Geistesgeschichte 36 (1984): 92-93.

 

Loy, David.  “The Dharma of Emanuel Swedenborg: A Buddhist Perspective.”  Buddhist  Christian Studies 16 (1996): 11-35.

 

Millard, Joan A.  “The New Jerusalem That Was Not Zion: Swedenborg and Africa.” Missionalia 24 (1996): 225-232.

 

Mitchell, Stephen A.  “The Path from Inferno to the Chamber Plays: Easter and Swedenborg.” Modern Drama 29 (1986): 157-168.

 

Promey, Sally M.  “The Ribband of Faith: George Inness, Color Theory, and the Swedenborgian Church.”  The American Art Journal 26 (1994): 44-65.

 

Smith, P. L. R.  “A New World Jerusalem: The Swedenborgian Experience in Community Construction.”  Sociological Analysis 45 (1984): 72-73.

 

Stipe, C. E.  “A New World Jerusalem: The Swedenborgian Experience in Community  Construction.”  Christian Scholar's Review 13 (1984): 283-284.

 

“The Swedenborg Tricentenary: Conference Reports.”  Journal of Religious History 15  (1988): 251-254.

 

Walsh, Thomas G.  “Religion and Society.”  Dialogue and Alliance 10 (1996): 1-107.

 

Wilde, Dana.  “A Note on Stephen's Shapeless Thoughts from Swedenborg in ‘A Portrait of the Artist.’”  Journal of Modern Literature 16 (1989): 179-181.

 

Williams-Hogan, Jane.  “A Swedenborgian Perspective on the Social Ideal: Society in Human Form.”  Dialogue and Alliance 10 (1996): 61-77.

 

Wolgast, Randy.  “Seeing Through Symbols: Insights into Spirit.”  Journal of Religion  and Health 39 (2000): 88-89.

 

Popular Secondary Sources about the Swedenborgian Church

 

Baker, Gregory L.  “Emanuel Swedenborg--An 18th Century Cosmologist.”  The Physics Teacher 21 (October 1983): 441-446.

 

Eastman, John A.  “Swedenborg: Scientific Saint.”  Christian Century 86 Jan. 1969: 156-160.

 

Franke, Norman.  “Visionary Consciousness: Emanuel Swedenborg and the Immanence  of Spiritual Reality.”  Mystics Quarterly 26 (2000): 210-212.

 

McLemee, Scott.  “Under the Influence.”  Lingua Franca 8 (1998): 58-61.

 

Milosz, Czeslaw.  “Swedenborg and Dostoevsky.”  Antaeus 67 (1991): 86-99.

 

Payne, Ernest Alexander.  “Joseph Proud: General Baptist, Swedenborgian and Hymnwriter.” Baptist Quarterly 23 (April 1970): 280-282.

 

Price, Leslie.  “Was Swedenborg a Spy?”  Theosophical History 8 (2000): 8.

 

Sykes, Claire.  “Conversations with Angels: What Swedenborg Heard in Heaven.”  Parabola 22 (November 1997): 116-117.

 

 

COMPUTER RESOURCES

 

Popular Primary Sources of the Swedenborgian Church

 

Bryn Athyn College of the New Church  The official homepage for the Bryn Athyn College of the New Church in Bryn Athyns, Pennsylvania.

http://www.newchurch.edu/college/

 

Information Swedenborg, Inc.  This website claims to teach others about the works of Emanuel Swedenborg.

http://www.swedenborg.ca/

 

New Church Issues Database  This website contains articles concerning Swedenborgian issues.

http://www.newchurchissues.org/

 

New Church Ministry  This website provides ministry opportunities for those interested in the New Church.

http://www.newchurchministry.org/

 

New Spirit  This site provides answers for those who desire to know more about the New Church.

http://www.cor.net.au/newspirit/index.html

 

Swedenborg Foundation  This website provides information concerning Swedenborgian books.

http://www.swedenborg.com/presentation.asp

 

Swedenborgain House of Studies This is a link to the Swedenborgian House of Studies at Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley California. It contains Swedenborgian material.

http://www.shs.psr.edu/

 

The Academy of the New Church  The official homepage for the Academy of the New Church in Bryn Athyns, Pennsylvania.

http://www.ancss.org/

 

The New Church  The official New Church homepage.

http://www.newchurch.org/

 

The New Church and the Works of Emanuel Swedenborg  This website provides portions of Emanuel Swedenborg’s writing, articles by other authors, and useful links.

http://www.geocities.com/kencallen/nc/

 

The New Philosophy: The Swedenborg Scientific Association  This website preserves, translates, publishes, and distributes the works of Emanuel Swedenborg.

http://www.thenewphilosophyonline.org/

 

The Swedenborg Association  This website is designed to enlighten seekers with the works of Emanuel Swedenborg.

http://www.swedenborg.net/

 

The Swedenborgian Church The official homepage of the Swedenborgian Church.

http://www.swedenborg.org

 

The Swedenborg Digital Library  This site contains books about Emanuel Swedenborg’s doctrines.

http://www.swedenborgdigitallibrary.org/

 

The Swedenborg Project  This website seeks to use mass media to disseminate the works of Emanuel Swedenborg.

http://www.swedenborgproject.org/

 

The Swedenborg Society  This website provides information concerning Emanuel Swedenborg and the Swedenborg Society.

http://www.swedenborg.org.uk/

 

Popular Primary Sources by Members and/or Local Swedenborgian Organizations

 

Emanuel Swedenborg  This site contains key links concerning Swedenborgianism.

http://aksum.org/links256.htm

 

Heaven and Hell: Disclosed by the Lord through Emanuel Swedenborg  This website provides a physical representation of heaven and hell as described by Emanuel Swedenborg.

http://www.cor.net.au/swedenborg/

 

In Boundless Mercy  This website provides words and music for Emanuel Swedenborg’s one and only hymn along with a brief summary of his life. http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/s/w/swedenborg_e.htm

 

Life After Death: The Details This site contains Swedenborgian material concerning the afterlife, including books and articles.

http://www.lifeafterdeathdetails.org/index2.htm

 

Morning Star Chapel This website is home to the Morning Star Chapel in Georgia.  The site also contains teachings and writings by Emanuel Swedenborg.

http://www.morningstarchapel.org/writings.html

 

The Glencairn Museum  This website is affiliated with the New Church.

http://www.glencairnmuseum.org/

 

The Heavenly Doctrines  This site provides excerpts from Emanuel Swedenborg’s book The Heavenly Doctrines.

http://www.theheavenlydoctrines.org/

 

The New Church Cathedral  This website provides teachings of the New Church.

http://www.newchurchcathedral.org/

 

The New Church of Boston  This website is a branch in New England of the New Church movement.

http://www.newchurchboston.org/

 

The New Church Outreach  This website is devoted to helping people improve their lives.

http://www.secondadvent.net/index.html

 

The New Church Vineyard  This website is designed to aide religious education concerning Swedenborgianism and the New Church.

http://www.newchurchvineyard.org/

 

The NewEarth Swedenborg BBS  This website contains resources concerning the New Church and Emanuel Swedenborg’s writings.

http://newchurch.newearth.org/

 

Popular Primary by Ex-Members and/or Members of the Swedenborgian Church

 

Beliefnet  This link provides a personal view of Swedenborgianism.

http://www.beliefnet.com/boards/message_list.asp?discussionID=32051

 

J. Appleseed and Co.  A website about one of the earliest Swedenborgians in America. http://www.jappleseed.org/religion.html

 

Tripod  This website provides a brief summary of Swedenborgianism and opportunities to chat with others concerning the faith.

http://members.tripod.com/~T3141/swedenbg.html

 

Popular Anti-Cult Secondary Sources by Conservative Christian, Non-Members

 

Bible Truths  This website shows how Swedenborgianism fits the description of “cult.”

http://www.bibletruths.net/cults.htm

 

Christian Apologetics & Research Ministry  This website contains a brief overview of Swedenborgianism.

http://www.carm.org/list/swedenborg.htm

 

Evangelize America  This website summarizes Swedenborg’s beliefs and then critiques them against Christianity.

http://www.evangelizeamerica.org/apologetics/Cults/swedenborgianism.htm

 

False Doctrines: Reaching the World for Christ Ministries  This website seeks to illumine the false doctrines of Swedenborgianism.

http://www.reachingforchrist.org/falsedoctrines/religions/misc.html

 

Jude Ministries: Contending for the Faith  This site exists to show Swedenborgianism’s doctrinal fallacies.

http://www.judeministries.org/cults/swedenborgianism.htm

 

Reachout Trust  This website attempts to provide a way for Christians to relate to Swedenborgians.

http://www.reachouttrust.org/regulars/articles/cult/swdbrg.htm

 

The Apologia Project This website addresses the areas of Swedenborgianism that contradict Christianity and the Bible.

http://www.theapologiaproject.org/swedenborgianism.html

 

The Hall of Church History  This site provides links and other materials concerning Swedenborgianism.

http://www.gty.org/~phil/cultists.htm

 

The Watchman Expositor  This website contains a summary of Swedenborg’s beliefs and a Christian, biblical response.

http://www.watchman.org/profile/swedenborgpro.htm

 

What Saith the Scripture?  This site is an excerpt from the book Heresies Exposed complied by William Irvine.

http://www.whatsaiththescripture.com/Fellowship/SWEDENBORGIANISM.html

 

Popular Anti-Cult Secondary Sources by Anti-Cult, Non-Member Observers

 

Adherents  This site is a collection of Swedendorgian statistics and geographical citations.

http://www.adherents.com/Na_289.html

Esoteria This website contains an article concerning Swedenborgianism written by Robert Rix of Warburg Institute in London. http://www.esoteric.msu.edu/VolumeV/Blake.htm

The Victorian Web  This site discusses Swedenborgianism in relationship to literature, history, and culture in the age of Victoria.

http://65.107.211.206/religion/swdbor.html

 

 Two Perspectives on Swedenborg’s Writing: Secular and Religious  This link is a portion of an article by Leon James (professor of psychology, University of Hawaii) on Swedenborg’s Writing.

http://www.soc.hawaii.edu/leonj/leonj/leonpsy/instructor/ncl1.html

 

What You Need to Know About Agnosticism/Atheism  This website displays a brief summary of all that anyone would need to know about Swedenborgianism.

http://atheism.about.com/library/glossary/paranormal/bldef_swedenborgianism.htm

 

World Religions  This site contains a description and personal commentaries of Swedenborgianism as an esoteric cult by J. Dominguez M.D.

http://religion-cults.com/Cults/Other/Other.htm

 

Scholarly Secondary Sources about the Swedenborgian Church

 

Religion and Ethics Department at St. Martins College  This site provides a summary of Swedenborgianism.

http://philtar.ucsm.ac.uk/encyclopedia/europe/sweden.html

 

Religious Movements  This site explains Swedenborgianism and has links and a bibliography.

http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/borg.html