Swedenborg ripened into being both sophisticated and childlike—a most productive combination.
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Our Scholars on Swedenborg blog features articles written by Swedenborgian academics with an emphasis on how religious pluralism has been used to solve some of the most pressing issues of the past and present.
Three Worldviews That Paved the Way for Women’s Suffrage
This year marks the centennial anniversary of American women winning the right to vote on August 18, 1920. How did their victory come about? What happened in the century leading up to the legalization of women’s suffrage? Where did the idea even come from?
Continue ReadingA Story without End
How did a young Swede become, after William Wilberforce, the second most important abolitionist in England’s history? The answer: he read Swedenborg.
Continue ReadingThe American Yen for Zen Began with Swedenborg . . . Sort of
What’s the story behind a Swedenborgian minister changing his name from Herman Vetterling to Philangi Dàsa, founding and editing the first Buddhist periodical in America, and publishing a fat book called Swedenborg the Buddhist? It’s complicated.
Continue ReadingIntimations of Immortality: Three Case Studies
A celebrated philosopher of religion ponders Swedenborg and other evidence of the afterlife.
Continue ReadingIs There Really Life on Other Planets?
An acclaimed astronomer, Swedenborg’s deductions about the physical universe were brilliant. Was he also onto something about its spiritual nature?
Continue ReadingSwedenborg’s Apocalypse . . . Now?
The Last Judgment is yesterday’s news. But its results are today’s.
Continue ReadingThe Swedenborgian Tree Gracing Maurice Nicoll’s Garden of Esoterica
New research shows Swedenborg’s far reach into the Fourth Way movement.
Continue ReadingAsking the Right God Question
A new book shows how a quarter-millennium after his death Swedenborg continues to build effective bridges between science and spirituality.
Continue ReadingMundus Imaginalis, or the Imaginary and the Imaginal
Sufism and Swedenborg share similar teachings about a spiritual world senior to this world.
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