Emanuel Swedenborg : visionary savant in the age of reason /

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Author / Creator:Benz, Ernst, 1907-1978
Uniform title:Emanuel Swedenborg. English
Imprint:West Chester, Pa. : Swedenborg Foundation, c2002.
Description:xxi, 536 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Swedenborg studies ; no. 14
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4696572
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ISBN:0877851956
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part 1. The Path to Science
  • 1. The Father's House
  • 2. Schooldays and University Years
  • 3. Study Years in England
  • 4. Encounter with Continental Science in Holland and France
  • 5. Technical Inventions
  • 6. Homecoming and Disappointment
  • 7. Meeting with Charles XII
  • 8. After the Death of Charles XII
  • 9. The Assessor of Mines: Career and Research Travels
  • 10. The Development of a Religious Worldview
  • 11. The Development of a Scientific Worldview
  • 12. Scientific and Intuitive Knowledge
  • Part 2. The Vocation
  • 13. Visionary Experiences before the Vocational Vision
  • 14. The Religious Crisis
  • 15. The Vision of Vocation
  • 16. The Development of Religious Self-Consciousness
  • 17. The Consequences of Vocation
  • Part 3. The Visionary
  • 18. Swedenborg's Private Life
  • 19. Swedenborg's Public Life
  • 20. The Prelude to a New Work
  • 21. Early Visionary Writings
  • 22. Swedenborg's Visions
  • 23. The Heavenly Mirror
  • Part 4. The Doctrine
  • 24. The Doctrine of Correspondences
  • 25. The Metaphysics of Life
  • 26. The Doctrine of the Spiritual World
  • 27. Marriages in Heaven
  • 28. The Doctrine of the Planets and Their Inhabitants
  • 29. Ideas on the History of Humankind
  • 30. Critique of the Confessions
  • Part 5. Swedenborg and the Church of His Time
  • 31. The Visionary and the Church
  • 32. Conflicts in London
  • 33. Conflicts with the Swedish Church
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Bibliography of the Works of Emanuel Swedenborg
  • Index