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		Some Swedenborgian organizations teach that the writings of Swedenborg (often called The Writings or The Third Testament) are a third part of the Bible and have the same authority as the Old and New Testaments.
		In the U.S., Swedenborgianism was organized in 1817 with the founding of the General Convention of the New Church (sometimes referred to as the Convention), now also known as the Swedenborgian Church of North America.
		These aspects are the rejection of the common explanation of the Trinity as a Trinity of Persons (Swedenborgians see the Trinity in One Person, the Lord Jesus Christ), and the rejection of the doctrine of atonement as an avenging justice (Swedenborgians see atonement as an act of love apart from revenge).
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	Swedenborgianism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Swedenborgianism is the ecclesiastical organization of beliefs developed from the writings of Emanuel Swedenborg, and as such, considered a religious movement by many.
		Some Swedenborgian organizations teach that the writings of Swedenborg (often called The Writings) are a third part of the Bible and have the same authority as the Old and New Testaments.
		In the U.S., Swedenborgianism was organized in 1817 with the founding of the General Convention of the New Church (sometimes referred to as the Convention,) now also known as the Swedenborgian Church of North America.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Swedenborgianism (1549 words)

	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Swedenborgianism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Swedenborgianism provided an influence and involvement in many of those movements wholly out of proportion to the comparable size of church membership.
		In addition, Swedenborgians were active in other social reform movements, such as the aforementioned utopian communities, and the medical and economical reform characteristic of the nineteenth century.
		The Church of the New Jerusalem was among the first religious institutions to advocate coeducation, and Urbana University, a Swedenborgian university established in Ohio in 1850, was the second coeducational college in the United States.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Swedenborgianism (3461 words)

	Swedenborgianism - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Swedenborgians have been viewed skeptically by Christian groups for the unorthodox aspects of their religion.
		("Swedenborgianism is a dangerous mystical non-Christian religion," says the Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry.) While the mystic aspect certainly appealed to some people, and still does, the New Church as an organization today constitutes a widely-spread and considerable society with a regularly constituted ecclesiastical organization.
		Robert Frost - His mother joined the Swedenborgian church and had him baptized in it[5], but he left it as an adult.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Swedenborgianism (1553 words)

	Swedenborgianism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Swedenborgianism is a term based on the ecclesiastical organization of certain beliefs relating to Emanuel Swedenborg's writings and, as such, is considered a religious movement by some.
		It is based on the belief that Swedenborg witnessed the Last Judgment and second advent of the Lord, along with the inauguration of the New Church and an explanation of the spiritual meaning of the literal sense of the Scriptures.
		Swedenborgians often refer to themselves by other terms, including "New Christians", "Neo-Christians", "The New Church", and "Church of the New Jerusalem".
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	Swedenborgianism: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Swedenborgianism is a term based on the ecclesiastical organization of certain beliefs relating to Emanuel Swedenborg Emanuel Swedenborg quick summary:
		(Swedenborgianism was organized in 1817 with the founding of the General Convention of the New Church (sometimes refered to as the Convention).
		Swedenborgians have been viewed skeptically by Christian groups as an occult heretical movement in which people speak in tongues and see spirits.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sw/swedenborgianism.htm (1890 words)

	The Swedenborgian Church-Tenets of Swedenborgianism
		Swedenborgians feel that ultimately the two are inseparable, a part of the same reality.
		In stressing freedom, diversity, and individualism, he issued a challenge to individuals, churches, and other organizations to be committed to the human growth processes and to express their personal commitment in ways as diverse as their numbers.
		One primary pathway advocated in the Swedenborgian Church for spiritual growth is a specialized study of scripture, enabling the diligent student to become aware of the inner-penetration of nature and spirit, of our natural world here and the universal spiritual world.
	www.swedenborg.org /tenets.cfm (1216 words)

	Swedenborgian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Swedenborgian Church bases its teachings on the as illuminated by the works of Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) a Swedish scientist and theologian.
		The unique Swedenborgian convert John Chapman is known in American folklore as Johnny Appleseed.
		Church of the New Jerusalem was among first religious institutions to advocate coeducation and University a Swedenborgian university established in Ohio 1850 was the second coeducational college in United States.
	www.freeglossary.com /Swedenborgian (1178 words)

	Emanuel Swedenborg
		English Swedenborgians were an energetic lot, producing many translations of his works (nearly all originally in Latin), and showing an active interest in social causes such as the
		Even today, there are still Swedenborgian organizations (at least three in America alone), and many Swedenborgian ideas have quietly made their way into the mainstream of social thought.
		Swedenborgianism exerted a considerable influence on a number of important authors.
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	Plymouth Brethren: Appendix - A Note on Swedenborgianism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		I omitted in the former edition of this book to speak of Swedenborgianism, and this has been objected to me; but the reason will be plain to those who are at all acquainted with it.
		Swedenborgianism rejects ten out of thirty-nine books of the Old Testament, twenty-two out of twenty-seven in the New; and what remains is interpreted in an arbitrary mystical manner, which, based upon a supposed supernatural illumination, refuses to submit to ordinary criticism.
		Swedenborgianism denies the Trinity, the spotlessness of the Lord, the substitutionary sacrifice of Christ, justification by faith, and the resurrection.
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	Emanuel Swedenborg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Proponents of Swedenborgianism believe Swedenborg was able to see into the spiritual world as he claimed.
		The New Church, or Church of the New Jerusalem, is the original Swedenborgian denominational body in North America.
		The Swedenborgian Church is another denomination based on Swedenborg's teachings.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Swedenborg (4338 words)

	Swedenborgian - InformationBlast
		By the early 1800s, the first Swedenborgian church structure had been built, the first periodical on Swedenborg's teachings published, and President Jefferson invited John Hargrove of the Baltimore congregation to preach in the Capitol rotunda before Congress.
		The spread of Swedenborgian beliefs across America was furthered by missionaries who contacted pioneer settlers at the wilderness edge.
		His temporal employment consists in preceding the settlements, and sowing nurseries of fruit trees, which he avows to be pursued for the chief purpose of giving him an opportunity of spreading the doctrines throughout the western country.
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	Swedenborgianism
		The Church of the New Jerusalem, based on Swedenborg's voluminous Latin writings, emerged in England after his death; the first Swedeborgian congregation in England was founded in the late 1780s, and in the same decade his doctrines were introduced into the United States.
		Out of these small groups of dedicated pupils grew a world-wide movement of Swedenborgians.
		Hundreds of psychics and mediums in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries followed Swedenborg, and his doctrine of correspondence was particularly influential on Western poetic literature, especially the Romantic and Symbolist traditions; he was admired by such people as Baudelaire, Goethe, Blake, and Kant.
	philtar.ucsm.ac.uk /encyclopedia/europe/sweden.html (554 words)

	NEW JERUSALEM CHURCH - LoveToKnow Article on NEW JERUSALEM CHURCH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Through his influence Lancashire became the stronghold of the Swedenborgians, and to-day includes a third of the congregations and more than half the members of the New Church in the United Kingdom.
		In 1782 a society for publishing Swedenborgs writings was formed in Manchester, and in December 1783 a little company of sympathizers with similar aims met in London and founded The Theosophical Society, among the members of which were John Flaxman the sculptor, William Sharpe the engraver, and F. Barthlemon the composer.
		In April 1789 a General Conference of British Swedenborgians was held in Great Eastcheap church, followed by another and by the publication of a journal, the New Jerusalem Magazine, in 1790.
	56.1911encyclopedia.org /N/NE/NEW_JERUSALEM_CHURCH.htm (1385 words)

	Swedenborgian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Swedenborgian Church bases its teachings on the Bible as illuminated by the works of Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772), a Swedish scientist and theologian.
		The unique Swedenborgian convert, John Chapman, is better known in American folklore as Johnny Appleseed.
		The Swedenborgian Church is at present "becoming" open to innovation and transition.
	www.wikiverse.org /swedenborgian (1206 words)

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		His religious system, sometimes called Swedenborgianism, is largely incorporated in the Church of the New Jerusalem,...
		He wove the ideas of Swedenborgianism into his religious teachings.
		He was converted to Swedenborgianism and wrote several religious works....
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	New age / swedenborgianism
		For example, it is estimated that in 1911 the total US membership in all Swedenborgian organizations was roughly 9400.
		("Swedenborgianism is a dangerous mystical non-Christian religion," says the.) While the mystic aspect certainly appealed to some people, and still does, the New Church as an organization today constitutes a widely-spread and considerable society with a regularly constituted ecclesiastical organization.
		Robert Frost - His mother joined the Swedenborgian church and had him baptized in it, but he left it as an adult.
	www.new-age-guide.com /new_age/swedenborgianism.htm (1316 words)

	Erofile #41 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In their writings, the secularisation and aestheticisation of Swedenborgianism -- particularly the doctrine of correspondences -- goes hand in hand with the idea of a kind of pre-revolutionary paradise in which human beings lived in a natural order.
		Wilkinson traces Swedenborgianism and its contexts in Balzac's Louis Lambert, Seraphita, and Les proscrits, and shows that his interest in Swedenborgian doctrines in the early 1830s seems to be closely linked to his concern with the political issues at stake in the Revolution of 1830.
		Swedenborgianism is coupled with a contemporary taste for eroticism and sensualism, designating one extreme -- the theological -- of the experience of a generation concerned above all with the relationship between sensation, sensualism, and meaning.
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	J Appleseed & Co - Religion
		This is the name by which the Swedenborgian Church in North America is incorporated.
		Swedenborgianism is based on the teachings of a Swedish scientist, Emanuel Swedenborg [1688-1772] who felt called by God to bring a new dispensation of truth.
		Today there are approximately 100 Swedenborgian churches and centers in North America, including several in the regions where Johnny Appleseed carried his Swedenborg books with such lively conviction.
	www.jappleseed.org /religion.html (822 words)

	The Lessons of Swedenborg: or, the Origin of William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
		It had evolved from a group of Swedenborgians meeting in the early 1780s at the house of the Rev. Jacob Duche in Lambeth (Paley 16), and it was modeled after the Manchester Printing Society, which began in 1782 to print and publish Swedenborg's works in English (Hindmarsh 7).
		His former Swedenborgian associates would be dismayed, encountering a man who is intent on exposing as a lie the Minute's claim that "there was not a single dissentient voice among us" (130), and on informing them that they were mistaken about him as well as about Swedenborg.
		To exclude Swedenborgians in favor of their critics would be to assume that Blake was preaching to the converted, that he did not take seriously the prophetic mantle he defines—or wanted his many Swedenborgian allusions, puns, and inside jokes to be understood.
	sites.unc.edu /viscomi/lesson.html (11271 words)

	Irish Literature: Swedenborgianism as an explanation for Phantasm
		When I first started reading the aspect that drew me in was the use of Swedenborgianism and horror, it really makes it stand out from the other stories about repressed Victorian women waiting around for their Prince Charming that are a little more common.
		Le Fanu uses Swedenborgianism to create the atmosphere he needs for phantasm and ghoulishness while still staying within a realist framework.
		Le Fanu however feels the need to never separate completely from a narrative that incorporates logical explanations for every fantastical event, be it an eery howling, the remoteness of various characters or the various rituals these characters perform.
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	Testimony of David Weaver leaving Swedenborgianism, CARM
		Swedenborgianism is a religion based on the writings of Emanuel Swedenborg who lived in the 1700's.
		I was born and raised in this religion.
		The ministers of the Swedenborgian religion either couldn't or didn't want to help me. They didn't know what to do with me. Then one of them said he had a relative who had changed religions and left Swedenborgianism.
	www.carm.org /testimonies/david_weaver.htm (1334 words)

	Swedenborg Chapel: Address June 30, 2002
		Since Swedenborgianism was held to be a spin-off from American spiritualist churches, the article describing the New Church would be placed alphabetically in the table of contents between Satanism and Witchcraft.
		Thus the Swedenborgian Chaplaincy became a member of the Ministry, and then Rev. Tafel was accepted as Chaplain.
		He is thus officially the Swedenborgian Chaplain of the United Ministry of Harvard University, and has been so designated for the past 11 years.
	www.swedenborgchapel.org /read_sa_lw020630.html (2036 words)

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