神学

This is a detailed explanation of the inner meaning of John's visions, as he described them in the "Book of Revelation," or the "Apocalypse".

This book supplements two of Swedenborg's earlier works, "The Last Judgment" and "Heaven and Hell".

This brief work, published in 1769, compares the doctrines of the Catholic and some Protestant churches in the 1700s, and contrasts them with the teachings of the new Christian church.

At the end of each spiritual "age" in human history, there's a "last judgment", a spiritual sea change. The First Christian Church had its last judgment in the mid-1700's, clearing the way for newer, more truly Christian ideas to flow in.

この著作は、神の本当の姿について、旧約聖書と新約聖書を参照しながら、キリスト教の理想的な理解の説明をしています。

信仰のみでは本当に効果があるのでしょうか？この著作の中でスウェーデンボルグは、信仰のみではいけないと、慎重かつ説得力をもって論じています。彼は、信仰とは何か、それを発展させるために私たちはどうしたらよいか、そして、本当の信仰となるためには、信仰がどのように仁愛、すなわち隣人への愛と結びついていなければならないかを説明しています。

私たちは死ぬと、どこに行くのでしょうか？スウェーデンボルグは霊的な世界を、物質的な世界とは異なるレベルにある、実際の「場所」と表現しています。

創世記と出エジプト記の奥義を解説した作品。聖書の言葉の象徴性を分析した上で、各章の概要を解説しています。

スヴェーデンボリは物理学者であり、初期の心理学者でもありました。 彼は瞑想のテクニックを学び、精神的な経験を記録しました。 場合によっては、他の惑星からの霊的に気づいている人々との出会いを記録しました。

愛、信仰、悔い改め、自己改革と再生、み言葉の性質などのトピックを含む、新しいキリスト教神学の概要。

私たちは自分の人生で何をすべきなのか？この小さな作品は、再生へのステップを説明し、どのようにすれば私たちが主のために場所を作り、主が私たちの中に善い愛を植え付け、育てることができるかを明らかにしています。これは実用的な本であり、永遠の幸福への手引きガイドブックです。

使徒ヨハネは、主の言葉の神聖な真理を象徴する白馬の幻を見ました。これは、聖書における対応関係のより一般的な原則を示しています。

この作品は、主、十戒、信仰、慈善、悔い改め、改革、再生など、新キリスト教会の基本的な教義を調査しています。

神は、神の愛から神の英知を通して、宇宙を創造するために働いています。最初に霊的な次元、それから物質的な次元で。

私たちは自由でしょうか？主は私たちの生活の中でどのように働いておられるのでしょうか？愛に満ちた神と、世の中の明らかな悪を、どのように折り合わせられるのでしょうか？それがどのように機能するのかをご紹介します。

夫婦間の真の愛に満ちた結婚は、人間の理想的な状態です。それは、深いレベルでの主の愛と知恵に対応しています。そして、私たちはこの賜物を受け取れるよう、努力することができます。

聖書のみ言葉の文字通りの物語は、深い内的な意味を含んでおり、重要で神聖なものです。旧約聖書と新約聖書は、霊的なものと自然的なものとの相応関係に基づいています。

霊魂と肉体はどのように相互作用するのでしょうか？スウェーデンボルグは神学者であり、当時の神経科学者の中でも特に優れた人物でした。ここに彼の言葉があります。

Swedenborg was well known for his vivid descriptions of spiritual experiences. In this manuscript, he describes a conversation he had with John Calvin in the spiritual world.

In this note, Swedenborg outlines the points he would make in a potential work on the history of the new Christian church.

This was a draft of an essay to be titled "An Invitation to the New Church". It's an outline of New Christian doctrine, and its points are made in other published works - but it's interesting how they were packaged here.

This exegesis of the "Book of Revelation" was drafted from 1757-1759, but wasn't finished. (Later, in 1766, Swedenborg tackled "Revelation" again, reworking and condensing, and published "Apocalypse Revealed".)

In this short draft, Swedenborg briefly outlines a theological system for the New Church - a preliminary sketch for "True Christian Religion" that was published in 1770.

In these notes, Swedenborg recounts a few conversations he had with angels during some of his spiritual experiences.

In this collection of Bible passages, Swedenborg makes that case that the old Christian church was dying and that a new one, based on a fuller understanding of the Word, was being formed.

This is a pre-cursor draft of the work entitled "The Lord," It outlines the nature of the Lord Jesus Christ as God Incarnate.

This is a pre-cursor draft of "The Sacred Scripture". It outlines the way that the Divine communicates with us in the Word via its inner meaning.

This draft was a precursor to "The Divine Love and Wisdom". It describes how Divine Love operates in the physical universe, and in our lives.

This draft is a precursor to "The Divine Love and Wisdom". It shows how Divine Wisdom provides forms or methods that Divine Love uses to take action.

In this draft, Swedenborg describes five scenes from his spiritual experiences. In one interesting case, he gets to feel what it's like to wake up in the afterlife.

In this fragment Swedenborg notes the correspondences of Gad and Asher, two sons of Jacob.

In this note, Swedenborg lists the key points that describe how God could save us by being born in human form, as Jesus Christ.

The first index that Swedenborg made for the manuscripts in which he logged his spiritual experiences.

Swedenborg compiled two indexes to his "Experientiae Spiritualis" manuscripts. They overlap somewhat, but this is the second one.

This index was for a missing rough draft of Swedenborg's main published work on marriage, "Conjugial Love".

This index (2 of 2) was for a missing rough draft of Swedenborg's main published work on marriage, "Conjugial Love".

This is an English translation of the first draft of an index made by Swedenborg for his 1766 work, "Apocalypse Revealed." It was succeeded by a fair copy second draft.

This is an index to Swedenborg's work, "Apocalypse Revealed", translated from Latin to English by Rev. John Whitehead.

This is the Latin text of the first draft of an index made by Swedenborg for his 1749-1757 work, "Arcana Coelestia." The manuscript was followed by a second draft fair copy that was not finished, which is also available in this system. The entries in the two manuscripts have been synced up by the Heavenly Doctrine Publishing Foundation's editorial team, to allow for easy comparison.

As we was writing Arcana Coelestia, Swedenborg made an Index -- actually two indexes - a rough draft of one for the whole work, and and this one - a fair copy manuscript, left uncompleted - covering the first two volumes of the 8-volume work.

This is an English translation of the Latin index to "Arcana Coelestia" based on two draft indexes that Swedenborg made, with additional inputs from Beyer's index, and other places in Swedenborg's works.

This is a brief index of the subjects in the Protestant document "The Formula Concordiae". Swedenborg made it for his own use in writing "True Christian Religion".

This is a two-paragraph fragment of Swedenborg's thought on how the divine influence takes place in the natural world. It was inscribed by Swedenborg (in around 1750) on the leaflet of the copy of Swammerdam's "Naturae Bible" which he presented to Count Hopkin, and which is now in the possession of the Carolinska Institute in Stockholm.

In this short draft, Swedenborg outlines the Catholic Church's doctrine about justification (which he disagreed with). Summary points are filled in with details from official Council of Trent documents.

This manuscript was a draft for the published work, "A Continuation concerning the Last Judgment".

This is a collection of some of Swedenborg's letters.

This is a rough sketch for Swedenborg's work entitled "De Amore Conjugiali", usually titled in in English as "Conjugial Love" or "Marriage Love".

Swedenborg outlined a potential work on miracles, and how divine miracles differ from the magic practiced in ancient religions.

In this essay Swedenborg answers nine questions from Thomas Hartley, a reader in England.

Swedenborg wrote this as a draft for "The Doctrine of Life", basing it on the Ten Commandments.

Swedenborg prepared this as a concordance for use in writing "True Christian Religion".

This is a brief outline of New Christian doctrine.

In these manuscripts, Swedenborg logged his experiences in the spiritual world, and his reflections about them. They were unpublished until the mid-1800s.

This is a sub-set of "Spiritual Experiences", sometimes called "minor" because Swedenborg used a smaller-sized diary on a publishing journey to Amsterdam.

This work dates from early in Swedenborg's transition from scientist to theologian. It's interesting; this shows his initial effort to explain the internal meaning of the Word.

In this study, Swedenborg summarized chapter-level explanations of the internal meaning of the "Book of Revelation".

Spiritual history traces the rise and fall of "churches" - the spiritual lives and worldviews of peoples. This outline draft describes the spiritual decline of the first Christian church and the beginning of the new Christian era.

This study is a nicely organized overview/study guide for the internal sense of the books of the Prophets in the Old Testament, and all of the Psalms. Originally translated by Rev. J. E. Schreck in 1900, it was updated by NCBS editors in 2015.

After publishing "True Christian Religion" in 1770, Swedenborg drafted these accounts of some spiritual experiences as potential additions to the main work.

慈善活動をするということは、本当はどういうことなのでしょうか？スウェーデンボルグは、この短い草稿の中で、このテーマを概説しています。

この短い作品の中で、スウェーデンボルグは、アタナシウス信条で述べられている三位一体に関する神学的な問題の核心を説明している。この信条は、キリスト教の時代になって約4世紀、教会の指導者たちの会合で採択されたもので、現在でもキリスト教会で広く受け入れられている。

この短い作品の中で、スウェーデンボルグは、自然のものと霊的なものがどのように対応しているかについての説明を裏付けるために、馬が出てくる御言葉の節をさらに引用しています。最後の3段落は特に興味深い。

This work is somewhat unique amongst Swedenborg's writings; it's the only one that was both published AND unfinished. It's a transitional work, between Swedenborg's scientific career and his theological one. In it, he describes the generation and formation of the soul. The work is dramatic in form, and allegorical. The first two Parts present a succession of six Scenes or Acts. Underlying the play, though, you can see Swedenborg's cutting-edge scientific understanding, in 1745.

In this brief unfinished work, Swedenborg looks at the text of the first 3 chapters of Genesis, and begins to explain how the literal text can be interpreted in the light of its internal meaning, and by what was known from the science of the day.

In this journal from 1744, Swedenborg logged his dreams and then the spiritual experiences that he started having. It wasn't intended for publication. Instead, with his growing interest in human psychology, it seems to be an attempt by Swedenborg to start tracking and analyzing his own experiences as data.

The present translation of Swedenborg's treatise "De Via ad Cognitionem Animae" is by James John Garth Wilkinson, M. D., and is reprinted, with some revision, from the first edition of the Posthumous Tracts. In the second reference Dr. Tafel assigns to it the date 1738 and lists it as number 53 in the "Chronological Account." From the contents of this paper it appears that it marks the author's passage from his preliminary investigations concerning the nature of the soul to the more thorough methods which reached their first culmination in his Economy of the Animal Kingdom.

The full title of this translation is "THE WORD OF THE OLD TESTAMENT EXPLAINED". Swedenborg's interests gradually shifted from the physical sciences to life sciences -- biology, anatomy, and the human body -- especially the brain. He was exploring the interaction between the soul and the body, and - more and more - felt that he needed to approach the topic from a spiritual perspective, i.e. that anatomy wasn't going to find the soul -- but that human spirituality was a deep reality that needed to be better understood. In this work, which is seen by Swedenborg scholars as being transitional, he focuses hard on trying understand and explain the Bible's inner meaning.