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Title Emanuel Swedenborg : a continuing vision : a pictorial biography & anthology of essays & poetry / edited by Robin Larsen, Stephen Larsen, James F. Larsen, William Ross Woofenden ; with an introduction by George F. Dole.

Publication Info. New York : Swedenborg Foundation, [1988].
copyright © 1988

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  230.94 Sw33Be 1988    ---  Available
Edition First edition.
Description xiv, 558 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 518-537) and index.
Contents Introduction / George F. Dole -- Emanuel Swedenborg: a pictorial biography / Robert H. Kirven and Robin Larsen -- Swedenborg in context: an anthology of essays & poetry -- Poets with Swedenborgian connections / compiled by Alice B. Skinner -- I. ARTS & LETTERS. Spirit in American art: the image as hieroglyph / Richard Silver -- The influence of Swedenborg on the music of Richard Yardumian / Ethelwyn Worden -- The human face of God / Kathleen Raine -- "Opposition is true friendship": Swedenborg's influences on William Blake / Harvey F. Bellin -- Psyche in stone: the influence of Swedenborg on funerary art / H.W. Janson -- Emerson: the Swedenborgian and transcendentalist connection / Eugene Taylor -- Strindberg and Swedenborg / Göran Stockenström -- Dostoevsky and Swedenborg / Czeslaw Milosz -- Singing masters of the soul: Swedenborg's and Blake's influence on William Butler Yeats / Jennifer L. Leonard -- Poets with Swedenborgian connections / compiled by Alice B. Skinner -- II. SOCIAL ISSUES & PSYCHOLOGY. Swedenborg and the visionary tradition / Stephen Larsen -- Swedenborg: transpersonal psychology, and wholeness / Rachel Martin -- A mystic looks at Swedenborg / Wilson Van Dusen -- Swedenborg's Journal of Dreams, and divine knowledge / Lars Bergquist -- Substance and form: the Swedenborgian vision in architecture / Leon S. Rhodes and James F. Lawrence -- Swedenborg and the near-death experience. Part 1. Reports on eternal life / Leon S. Rhodes ; Part 2. Excerpts from Heading toward Omega / Kenneth Ring ; Part 3. Three states of afterlife / compiled by Stephen Larsen -- An iconography of city planning: the Chicago city plan / Irving D. Fisher -- Poets with Swedenborgian connections / compiled by Alice B. Skinner -- III. THE MAN & HIS WORLD. Swedenborg's Sweden / Robert H. Kirven -- Swedenborg and Uppsala / Gunnar Broberg -- Academic Uppsala / Anja Hübener -- A rationale for Swedenborg's writing sequence, 1745-1771 / George F. Dole -- Swedenborg's London / Dennis Duckworth -- Swedenborg: the man who had to publish / William Ross Woofenden -- Toleration and doctrinal unity: a study in Swedish Swedenborgianism, 1765-1795 / Harry Lenhammer -- Swedenborg in Stockholm / Olle Hjern -- The pivotal change in Swedenborg's life / Donald L. Rose -- Poets with Swedenborgian connections / compiled by Alice B. Skinner -- IV. RELIGION & PHILOSOPHY. Testimony to the invisible / Jorge Luis Borges -- The relevance of Emanuel Swedenborg's theological concepts for the new age as it is envisioned today / Michael W. Stanley -- Swedenborg's contributions to the history of ideas / Robert H. Kirven -- Swedenborg and the Bible / Dorothea Harvey -- An image of God in a mirror / George F. Dole -- The subtle realm: Corbin, Sufism, and Swedenborg / Roberts Avens -- Swedenborg and the Egyptian hieroglyphs / Horand K. Gutfeldt -- Servant of the Lord / Ray Silverman -- Love: the ultimate reality / Lewis Field Hite -- New Jerusalem in the world / Inge Jonsson -- Poets with Swedenborgian connection / compiled by Alice B. Skinner -- V. THEORETICAL & APPLIED SCIENCES. Science in Swedenborg's time / Gregory L. Baker -- Swedenborg and the holographic paradigm / Michael Talbot -- Carolus Linnaeus / Anja Hübener -- The search for a religious cosmology / Steve Koke -- Homeopathy and the Swedenborgian perspective. Part 1. Homeopathy and the New Church / Elinore Peebles ; Part 2. Homeopathy and archetypal meaning / Edward C. Whitmont ; Part 3. What is homeopathy? / Richard Moskowitz -- Mining and engineering in Swedenborg's time / Erland J. Brock -- The soul and the abyss of nature / Stephen Larsen -- Poets with Swedenborgian connections / compiled by Alice B. Skinner. -- REFERENCE. Appendix A: Key concepts in the theology of Emanuel Swedenborg / George F. Dole -- Appendix B: Distributors of Swedenborgian literature -- Appendix C: Selected chronology of Swedenborg's early works -- Glossary of Swedenborgian terms ; Bibliography of Swedenborg's works ; Select bibliography / compiled and annotated by William Ross Woofenden.
Summary This lavishly illustrated anthology of essays and poems treats the life, times, and influence of the 18th-century naturalist and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg. Originally a mining engineer, Swedenborg was a polymath who became a seer and mystic, producing a large and influential body of theological writings. includes an examination of Swedenborg's descriptions of near-death experiences; Swedenborg's influence on the development of homeopathy; and essays delving into the world Swedenborg lived in and the details of his religious thought.
Subject Swedenborg, Emanuel, 1688-1772.
Swedenborg, Emanuel, 1688-1772 -- Influence.
New Jerusalem Church -- History.
Theology -- Early works to 1800.
Swedenborg, Emanuel, 1688-1772. (OCoLC)fst00053320
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) (OCoLC)fst00972484
New Jerusalem Church. (OCoLC)fst01036745
Theology. (OCoLC)fst01149559
Genre/Form Biography.
Early works. (OCoLC)fst01411636
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
Poetry.
Added Author Larsen, Robin, editor.
Larsen, Stephen, editor.
Lawrence, James F., 1954- editor.
Woofenden, William Ross, editor.
Swedenborg, Emanuel, 1688-1772, contributor.
Swedenborg Foundation, editor.
Added Title Emanuel Swedenborg, a continuing vision
ISBN 0877851360
9780877851363

 
    
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