The Swedenborg Project

Swedenborg’s influence – some things added – more info welcome

Editorial Staff — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 19:48:20 +0000

On our Swedenborg’s influence page, we’ve been collecting more data, and there’s a lot more to do. We’re trying to develop a reliable, comprehensive list – and it is quite amazing but still in the early stages. If you know of other influential people who should be on our list, or have evidence to support the lines of influence, please let us know.

New Christian resources – a new page

Editorial Staff — Thu, 12 Feb 2015 13:51:19 +0000

We added a new page: New Christian resource links.

We added a bookstore!

Editorial Staff — Sun, 08 Feb 2015 22:06:33 +0000

You probably know all about our great Swedenborg Digital Library, with its online texts of a lot of useful books. Well, in addition to that, we’ve just added a Swedenborg Bookstore here, in concert with New Church Allied Publishers.

A Spanish translation of Heaven and Hell

Editorial Staff — Sat, 07 Feb 2015 03:21:51 +0000

The New Christian Bible Study Project has imported a Spanish translation of Heaven and Hell. Here’s a link: El Cielo y El Infierno. It’s a 1911 translation that was done by Dr. Calleja. The team at swedenborg.es worked with the New Christian Bible Study people to provide this. More Spanish translations are on the way, and the NCBSP site also has Swedenborg’s works in other languages, too.

New Church School Links

Editorial Staff — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 02:50:34 +0000

We’re adding pages with brief descriptions of various New Church schools around the world, along with links to their sites. So far, we have pages for Toronto, Pittsburgh, Bryn Athyn and Washington’s schools.

Another new page: New Christian Education

Editorial Staff — Sat, 31 Jan 2015 19:20:32 +0000

We added another new page to the site; this one on New Christian education. It’s going to be the start of a set of pages on the New Church schools around the world, and the useful work they are doing.

New page: Swedenborg’s Influence

Editorial Staff — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 19:11:27 +0000

We’ve added a new page, on Swedenborg’s influence. It includes a list of some 150 well-known people who were Swedenborgians, or who were significantly influenced by his work.

Theistic Science. Is that plausible?

Editorial Staff — Mon, 26 Jan 2015 16:56:40 +0000

Dr. Ian Thompson, the New Zealand-born nuclear physicist, says it is. He recently published a book entitled Starting Science from God. In it, he advances an argument that science and religion to not need to be in conflict. He believes it is plausible to posit that there is a God, and to develop a theistic philosophy that meshes well with what we know from science. This book is not for light reading, but that’s good — it’s a serious book by a serious scientist about a serious subject that really digs into the big questions. Here’s a link to Dr. Thompson’s website: http://www.beginningtheisticscience.com/

New Christian Education: Where?

Editorial Staff — Mon, 26 Jan 2015 02:31:58 +0000

This is just a brief post, but it could be the start of an interesting line of research; there’s actually a lot of interesting history at the intersection of New Christian thought and educational philosophy. For a sneak preview, you might want to look up Friedrich Froebel, Alice Putnam, Helen Keller – all educational pioneers.

However, in this post, we just wanted to point out this list of New Church schools in the US, Canada, Ghana, South Africa, and the Philippines:

Another good resource: The New Christian Bible Study Project

Editorial Staff — Mon, 26 Jan 2015 02:11:38 +0000

Here’s another site that lets you read the Bible and commentary on its inner meaning from Swedenborg’s works, side by side. Plus there are explanations of Bible words and phrases, Bible stories, and spiritual topics. Here’s the link: newchristianbiblestudy.org