Scribe of Heaven: Swedenborg's Life, Work, and Impact (Works of Emanuel Swedenborg)

The essays in this volume testify to the far-reaching effects of Emanuel Swedenborg's works in Western culture. From his early days as an ambitious young scientist in the ferment of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment Europe, through his mid-life entrance into an ongoing experience of the spiritual world, to his last decades as a researcher of things spiritual, Swedenborg built a career that left a unique legacy. His vivid descriptions of the nonphysical realm made a powerful impression on minds as diverse as Goethe, Blake, Emerson, Yeats, and Borges. This book serves as a self-contained resource on Swedenborg's life and thought and as a gateway into further exploration of the labyrinthine garden of Swedenborg's works. It includes a biography, rich in fascinating detail; lively overviews of the content and history of Swedenborg's writings on spiritual topics; and essays tracing Swedenborg's impact in various regions of the world. The Inner Journey Of Emanuel Swedenborg / Richard Smoley -- Swedenborg's Garden Of Theology : An Introduction To Swedenborg's Published Theological Works / Jonathan S. Rose -- Swedenborg's Modes Of Presentation, 1745-1771 / George F. Dole -- Swedenborg's Manuscrips / Frank S. Rose -- The Influence Of Emanual Swedenborg In Scandinavia / Olle Hjern -- Swedenborg And The Continental Europe / Jean-francois Mayer -- Selected Examples Of Swedenborg's Influence In Great Britain And The United States / Robert H. Kirven And David B. Eller -- Swedenborgian Churches And Related Intstuitions In Great Britain, The United States And Canada / Jane Williams-hogan And David B. Eller -- New Church (swedenborgian) Societies In The United States And Canada, 1790-2003 -- Examples Of Internationalization : The New Church In Africa / Jane Williams-hogan -- Swedenborg's Influence: The Power Of Three Selected Ideas / Alice B. Skinner. Contributed By George F. Dole ... [et Al.] ; Edited By Jonathan S. Rose, Stuart Shotwell, And Mary Lou Bertucci. A Swedenborg Bibliography: P. 385-519. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 375-558) And Index. LIKE most great figures in history, Emanuel Swedenborg both epitomizes his time and transcends it.