Word: swedenborg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Swedenborg and His Philosophy of Love" will be the subject of a free, public lecture at Harvard tomorrow by the Reverend Lewis F. Hite. Professor of Philosophy, New Church Theological School, at Emerson Hall...
...lecture is given in connection with the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the birth of Swedenborg, now being internationally celebrated...
...Swedenborg, inventor of a mercury air pump, a stove, an ear trumpet, believer in the feasibility of airplanes, submarines, machine guns, investigator of the brain, spinal cord and ductless glands, was ahead of his time in nearly every scientific field. He believed he talked with angels and spirits, made excursions through Heaven and Hell, received a revelation of the Second Coming of Christ. Though he spent nearly 30 years before his death (date of which he predicted accurately in a letter to Methodist John Wesley) in writing theological works in Latin, he had no intention of founding a church...
...Boston's onetime Mayor Malcolm Nichols, Glass Manufacturer Raymond Pitcairn, the family of Harvard's President James Bryant Conant, the shades of the elder Henry James, the late Financial Publisher Clarence W. Barren all hold one thing in common - a belief in the theological doctrines of Emanuel Swedenborg. They find solace in the Swedenborgian service, which resembles the Anglican, in the Swedenborgian belief in immediate judgment after death, and they experience exhilaration in contact with one of the most versatile scientific minds the world ever knew. Last week, at some 80 public dinners throughout the U. S., Swedenborgians...
Last week Mrs. Vanderlip, widow of the Manhattan banker and a pillar of the Manhattan Swedenborgian church, presided at the Manhattan Swedenborg banquet to which President Roosevelt sent a praiseful telegram. In Boston, Swedenborgians dined in their Church of the New7 Jerusalem on Beacon Hill. In Philadelphia, Episcopalian Joseph Fort Newton spoke at a Swedenborg gathering in the University Club, while in nearby suburban Bryn Athyn, Swedenborgians of the schismatic General Church of the New Jerusalem held a dinner in the assembly hall of their slowly-building cathedral. These Swedenborgians have a bishop-George de Charms-whereas the main body...