Apocalypse revealed / translated from the Latin of Emanuel Swedenborg ; translation revised and edited by Alice Spiers Sechrist.
By: Swedenborg, Emanuel
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Contributor(s): Sechrist, Alice Spiers.
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BookPublisher: New York : Swedenborg Foundation, 1855 (1981 printing)Description: ix, 1157 p. ; 18 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0877850143 (pbk).Uniform titles: Apocalypsis revelata. English Subject(s): Bible. Revelation -- Commentaries -- Early works to 1800DDC classification: 289.4
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Store Item | 289.4 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00005622 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Swedenborg Foundation Publishers is celebrating 150 years of publishing activity in America, a milestone we have dubbed our "Sesqui", short for Sesquicentennial. You will see a whole new dynamic, honoring both our 150th anniversary and the new millennium, as you examine the books on the following pages. We have our largest, most dynamic publication schedule ever -- 15 titles for 2000, including a number of compelling trade books in our Chrysalis line, treating topics such as partnership as spiritual practice, gardening for spiritual sustenance, and the mystical emergence of a feminist baby-boomer.
What else is new at the Swedenborg Foundation in its 150th year? We have begun a momentous, twelve-year project to retranslate Swedenborg's entire corpus, offering a contemporary expression of his thought that provides meaningful access for today's reader. Each volume will contain a contextualizing preface and scholarly annotations. The first two volumes -- Heaven and Hell, and Scribe of Heaven, anintroductory volume of scholarly essays on Swedenborg's work and influence -- will be published in the fall of 2000. This translation project is the first to be undertaken with unified standards by a single entity, and we intend it to ignite a renaissance of interest in this brilliant thinker and potent visionary, one of the world's three greatest intellects -- along with Goethe and John Stuart Mill -- according to Stanford University researchers who created a data program to calculate the IQs of history's great minds.
Abridgement of Swedenborg's exposition of Revelation, describing personal self-judgment in the spiritual realm.
Translation of 'Apocalypsis revelata'. Amstelodami (Amsterdam), 1766.
Index.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
The son of a Swedish Lutheran pastor, professor, and court chaplain, Emanuel Swedenborg first became a scientist and mining engineer. Of brilliant intellect and wide-ranging interests, he explored many areas of nature, doing pioneering work in several fields.In 1743 he began to experience a series of visions of the spiritual world. Over subsequent years he maintained that he held conversations with angels, the departed, and even God, and that he had visited heaven and hell. Swedenborg penned a lengthy series of writings inspired by these encounters, based on the concept of a spiritual cosmos as model for the physical, an educative view of the afterlife, and the allegorical interpretation of Scripture.
In 1774 the small Church of the New Jerusalem was founded explicitly on the basis of his revelations. Swedenborg's influence has been much wider than its membership. His teachings entered American culture generally through the popularity of several of his books and his impact on Spiritualism and the New England Transcendentalists.
(Bowker Author Biography)