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.

May 1, 2020

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? Read more

November 15, 2019

A 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. Read more

August 1, 2019

The 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. Read more

May 24, 2019

Intimations of Immortality: Three Case Studies

A celebrated philosopher of religion ponders Swedenborg and other evidence of the afterlife. Read more

February 15, 2019

Is 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? Read more