Emanuel Swedenborg : visionary savant in the age of reason /
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Author / Creator: | Benz, Ernst, 1907-1978 |
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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 |
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