Teologia

Como é que a alma interage com o corpo? Swedenborg era um teólogo, e um dos principais neurocientistas da sua época. Aqui está o que ele tinha a dizer sobre isso.

Esta é uma visão geral da Nova Teologia Cristã, incluindo tópicos como amor, fé, arrependimento, reforma e renascimento, a natureza da Palavra e muito mais.

Esta é uma explicação detalhada do significado interior das visões de João, como ele as descreveu no "Livro do Apocalipse", ou "Apocalipse".

Este trabalho explica o significado interior do Génesis e do Êxodo. A visão geral dos capítulos é sustentada pela análise do simbolismo das palavras bíblicas.

A true loving marriage between a husband and wife is the ideal human state. It corresponds to the Lord's love and wisdom at a deep level. And, we can work to become able to receive this gift.

Este livro complementa duas obras anteriores da Swedenborg, "The Last Judgment" e "Heaven and Hell".

Estamos livres? Como é que o Senhor opera nas nossas vidas? Como podemos equiparar um Deus amoroso com o mal óbvio no mundo? É assim que funciona...

God works from Divine Love through Divine Wisdom to create the universe - first in its spiritual dimensions and then in its physical dimensions.

No final de cada "era" espiritual da história humana, há um "último julgamento", uma mudança de mar espiritual. A Primeira Igreja Cristã teve seu último julgamento em meados do século XVII, abrindo o caminho para que idéias mais novas e mais verdadeiramente cristãs pudessem fluir.

Só a fé é exequível? Não. Neste trabalho, a Swedenborg argumenta de forma cuidadosa e convincente que não é. Ele descreve o que é a fé, como trabalhamos para desenvolvê-la, e como ela deve ser conjugada com a caridade, ou seja, amor ao próximo, para ser fé real.

As histórias literais da Palavra são importantes e sagradas porque contêm um profundo significado interior. O Antigo e o Novo Testamento são baseados em correspondências entre as coisas espirituais e naturais.

O que é suposto fazermos com as nossas vidas? Este pequeno trabalho explica os passos para a regeneração e como podemos limpar o terreno e permitir que o Senhor implante e alimente um bom conjunto de amores dentro de nós. É um livro prático; um guia para a felicidade eterna.

Este trabalho descreve a compreensão cristã ideal da verdadeira natureza de Deus, com extensas referências ao Antigo e ao Novo Testamento.

O apóstolo João viu uma visão de um cavalo branco, simbolizando a verdade divina da Palavra do Senhor. Ela ilustra um princípio mais geral de correspondências.

Vamos a algum lado quando morremos? Swedenborg descreve o mundo espiritual como um verdadeiro "lugar" que opera em um plano diferente do mundo físico.

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.

A Swedenborg era simultaneamente uma cientista física e uma psicóloga precoce. Ele aprendeu técnicas de meditação, e registrou suas experiências espirituais. Em alguns casos, ele descreveu o encontro com pessoas espiritualmente conscientes de outros planetas.

This work surveys the fundamental doctrines of the New Christian Church - about the Lord, the Ten Commandments, faith, charity, repentance, reformation, regeneration, and much more.

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.

What does it really mean to be charitable? Swedenborg outlines the topic in this brief draft.

Swedenborg era bem conhecido por suas vívidas descrições de experiências espirituais. Neste manuscrito, ele descreve uma conversa que teve com João Calvino no mundo espiritual.

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.

Este índice (2 de 2) foi para um rascunho do principal trabalho publicado pela Swedenborg sobre o casamento, "O Amor Conjugal".

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 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.

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".

Este índice foi compilado mas não publicado pelo próprio Swedenborg. É uma tradução inglesa baseada na tradução anterior do Rev. James Hyde em 1909, e no texto latino transcrito e editado por John Elliot em 2004.

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.

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.

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.