Scribe of Heaven: Swedenborg's Life, Work and Impact
The essays in this volume testify to the far-reaching effects of Emanuel Swedenborg’s works in Western culture. From his early days as an ambitious young scientist in the ferment of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment Europe, through his mid-life entrance into an ongoing experience of the spiritual world, to his last decades as a researcher of things spiritual, Swedenborg built a career that left a unique legacy. His vivid descriptions of the nonphysical realm made a powerful impression on...
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Scribe of Heaven introduces Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) and traces the impact of his spiritual thought in the Western world. Jonathan S. Rose looks at the lush imagery of Swedenborg's symbolism, while David Eller, Alice Skinner, Olle Hjern and Jean-François Mayer show how that imagery and symbolism influenced European and American artists and thinkers. Jane Williams-Hogan and David Eller discuss the development of Swedenborgianism as an institutionalized religion in Anglophone countries and around the world. Included are a biography of Swedenborg, an overview of his theological volumes, a review of Swedenborg's original manuscripts and a bibliography of his works.
