Emanuel Swedenborg

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The Doctrine of Life for the New Jerusalem from the Commandments of the Decalogue

Beschreibung

1825. Emanuel Swedenborg, the noted Swedish scientist, philosopher and theologian, is best known for his later writings in which he presents ideas both Christian and ecumenical, for a new spiritual era or new church to be known as the New Jerusalem. Contents: That all Religion has Relation to Life and that the Life of Religion is to do Good; That No One Can do Good, which is really Good, from himself; That So Far as Man Shuns Evils as Sins, so far He Does What is Good, not from Himself, but from the Lord; That So Far as any one Shuns Evils as Sins, so far he loves Truths; That So Far as any one Shuns Evils as Sins, so far he has Faith and is Spiritual; That the Decalogue Teaches What Evils are Sins; That Murders, Adulteries, Thefts, and False Witness of Every Kind, with the Concupiscences Prompting Thereto, are Evils which Ought to be Shunned as Sins; That So Far as any one Shuns Murders of Every Kind as Sins, So Far He has Love Towards His Neighbor; That So as any one Shuns Adulteries of Every Kind as Sins, So Far He Loves Chastity; and That So Far as any one Shuns Thefts of Every Kind as Sins, So Far He Loves Sincerity. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

Autor

Emanuel Swedenborg (born Emanuel Swedberg; 8 February [O.S. 29 January] 1688 - 29 March 1772)[2] was a Swedish pluralistic-Christian theologian, scientist, philosopher and mystic.[3] He is best known for his book on the afterlife, Heaven and Hell (1758).[4][5] Swedenborg had a prolific career as an inventor and scientist. In 1741, at 53, he entered into a spiritual phase in which he began to experience dreams and visions, beginning on Easter Weekend, on 6 April 1744. It culminated in a "spiritual awakening" in which he received a revelation that he was appointed by Jesus Christ to write The Heavenly Doctrine to reform Christianity.[6] According to The Heavenly Doctrine, the Lord had opened Swedenborg's spiritual eyes so that from then on, he could freely visit heaven and hell to converse with angels, demons and other spirits and the Last Judgment had already occurred the year before, in 1757.[7] According to Swedenborg, we leave the physical world once, but then go through several lives in the spiritual world - a kind of hybrid of Christian tradition and the popular view of reincarnation.[8] Over the last 28 years of his life, Swedenborg wrote 18 published theological works-and several more that were unpublished. He termed himself a "Servant of the Lord Jesus Christ" in True Christian Religion,[9] which he published himself.[10] Some followers of The Heavenly Doctrine believe that of his theological works, only those that were published by Swedenborg himself are fully divinely inspired.[11] Others have regarded all Swedenborg's theological works as equally inspired, saying for example that the fact that some works were "not written out in a final edited form for publication does not make a single statement less trustworthy than the statements in any of the other works".[12] The New Church, a new religious movement comprising several historically-related Christian denominations, reveres Swedenborg's writings as revelation

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
• Seitenzahl: 70
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 278g
• ISBN-13: 9781161488630
• ISBN-10: 1161488634
• Artikelnr.: 30993451