Emanuel Swedenborg : Visionary Savant in the Age of Reason.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (560 pages)
- Swedenborg Studies .
- Swedenborg Studies .
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke -- Part One: The Path to Science -- 1. The Father's House -- 2. Schooldays and University Years -- 3. Study Years in England -- 4. Encounter with Continental Science in Holland and France -- 5. Technical Inventions -- 6. Homecoming and Disappointment -- 7. Meeting with Charles XII -- 8. After the Death of Charles XII -- 9. The Assessor of Mines: Career and Research Travels -- 10. The Development of a Religious Worldview -- 11. The Development of a Scientific Worldview -- 12. Scientific and Intuitive Knowledge -- Part Two: The Vocation -- 13. Visionary Experiences before the Vocational Vision -- 14. The Religious Crisis -- 15. The Vision of Vocation -- 16. The Development of Religious Self-Consciousness -- 17. The Consequences of Vocation -- Part Three: The Visionary -- 18. Swedenborg's Private Life -- 19. Swedenborg's Public Life -- 20. The Prelude to a New Work -- 21. Early Visionary Writings -- 22. Swedenborg's Visions -- 23. The Heavenly Mirror -- Part Four: The Doctrine -- 24. The Doctrine of Correspondences -- 25. The Metaphysics of Life -- 26. The Doctrine of the Spiritual World -- 27. Marriages in Heaven -- 28. The Doctrine of the Planets and Their Inhabitants -- 29. Ideas on the History of Humankind -- 30. Critique of the Confessions -- Part Five: Swedenborg and The Church of His Time -- 31. The Visionary and the Church -- 32. Conflicts in London -- 33. Conflicts with the Swedish Church -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Bibliography of the Works of Emanuel Swedenborg -- Index.