Theologie

Wie interagiert die Seele mit dem Körper? Swedenborg war Theologe UND einer der führenden Neurowissenschaftler seiner Zeit. Hier ist, was er dazu zu sagen hatte.

Eine wahrhaft liebevolle Ehe zwischen Mann und Frau ist der ideale menschliche Zustand. Sie entspricht der Liebe und Weisheit des Herrn auf einer tiefen Ebene. Und wir können daran arbeiten, fähig zu werden, dieses Geschenk zu empfangen.

Gott wirkt aus göttlicher Liebe durch göttliche Weisheit, um das Universum zu erschaffen - zuerst in seinen spirituellen und dann in seinen physischen Dimensionen.

Sind wir frei? Wie wirkt der Herr in unserem Leben? Wie können wir einen liebenden Gott mit dem offensichtlichen Bösen in der Welt in Einklang bringen? So geht es...

Die wörtlichen Geschichten des Wortes sind wichtig und heilig, weil sie einen tiefen inneren Sinn enthalten. Das Alte und das Neue Testament basieren auf Korrespondenzen zwischen geistigen und natürlichen Dingen.

Dieses Werk beschreibt das ideale christliche Verständnis der wahren Natur Gottes, mit ausführlichen Verweisen auf das Alte und Neue Testament.

Dies ist eine detaillierte Erklärung der inneren Bedeutung der Visionen des Johannes, wie er sie im "Buch der Offenbarung" oder in der "Apokalypse" beschrieben hat.

Swedenborg war sowohl Physiker als auch ein früher Psychologe. Er erlernte Meditationstechniken und hielt seine spirituellen Erfahrungen fest. In einigen Fällen beschrieb er die Begegnung mit spirituell bewussten Menschen von anderen Planeten.

Gehen wir irgendwo hin, wenn wir sterben? Swedenborg beschreibt die geistige Welt als einen wirklichen "Ort", der auf einer anderen Ebene funktioniert als die physische Welt.

Dieses Werk erklärt die innere Bedeutung von Genesis und Exodus. Die Kapitelübersichten werden durch die Analyse der Symbolik der Bibelworte untermauert.

Dieses Buch ergänzt zwei frühere Werke von Swedenborg, "Das Jüngste Gericht" und "Himmel und Hölle".

Dieses kurze Werk vergleicht die Lehren der katholischen und einiger protestantischer Kirchen in den 1700er Jahren und stellt sie den Lehren gegenüber, die die neue christliche Kirche haben muss.

Was sollen wir mit unserem Leben anfangen? Dieses kleine Werk erklärt die Schritte zur Regeneration und wie wir den Boden bereiten und dem Herrn erlauben können, eine gute Menge an Liebe in uns einzupflanzen und zu nähren. Es ist ein praktisches Buch; ein Wegweiser zum ewigen Glück.

Was sollen wir mit unserem Leben anfangen? Dieses kleine Werk erklärt die Schritte zur Regeneration und wie wir den Boden bereiten und dem Herrn erlauben können, eine gute Menge an Liebe in uns einzupflanzen und zu nähren. Es ist ein praktisches Buch; ein Wegweiser zum ewigen Glück.

Der Apostel Johannes sah eine Vision von einem weißen Pferd, das die göttliche Wahrheit des Wortes des Herrn symbolisierte. Es veranschaulicht ein allgemeines Prinzip der Entsprechungen.

Am Ende jedes spirituellen "Zeitalters" in der Menschheitsgeschichte steht ein "letztes Gericht", eine spirituelle Meeresveränderung. Die erste christliche Kirche hatte ihr letztes Gericht Mitte des 17. Jahrhunderts und machte damit den Weg frei für neuere, wahrhaft christliche Ideen, die einfließen sollten.

Die wörtlichen Geschichten des Wortes sind wichtig und heilig, weil sie einen tiefen inneren Sinn enthalten. Das Alte und das Neue Testament basieren auf Korrespondenzen zwischen geistigen und natürlichen Dingen.

Dieses Werk gibt einen Überblick über die grundlegenden Lehren der Neuen Christlichen Kirche - über den Herrn, die Zehn Gebote, Glauben, Nächstenliebe, Buße, Reformation, Regeneration und vieles mehr.

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

In dieser Sammlung von Bibelstellen argumentiert Swedenborg, dass die alte christliche Kirche im Sterben lag und dass eine neue, auf einem umfassenderen Verständnis des Wortes beruhende Kirche im Entstehen begriffen war.

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

Diese Studie ist ein gut organisierter Überblick/Studienführer über den inneren Sinn der Bücher der Propheten im Alten Testament und aller Psalmen.

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.

In diesem kurzen Entwurf skizziert Swedenborg ein theologisches System für die Neue Kirche - eine vorläufige Skizze für "Wahre christliche Religion", die 1770 veröffentlicht wurde.

Was bedeutet es wirklich, wohltätig zu sein? Swedenborg umreißt das Thema in diesem kurzen Entwurf.

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.

In this short work Swedenborg describes the core theological problems relating to the Trinity, as it was described in the Athanasian Creed.

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.

In 1758, Swedenborg published "The White Horse, using this image from Revelation to illustrate that the Word is written using correspondences between spiritual and natural things. In 1769, he wrote this letter to Rev. Thomas Hartley, providing more examples of places in the Word where horses correspond to the understanding of truth.

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

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.