Word: swedenborg
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year old Swedenborg Chapel on the corner of Quincy and Kirkland streets has been for sale for years, but it the last month a $3 million offer from a Somerville developer has thrown its future into doubt...
...chapel is owned by the Swedenborg School of Religion, a Newton-based seminary teaching the doctrines of a Christian sect. The congregation using the chapel is called the Church of the New Jerusalem...
...center, slated for construction in the neighborhood of the Swedenborg Chapel, was seen by some Cantabrigians as an example of insensitivity to the local community, which uses extensively the small park in the area the Center would be built. The University agreed to amend its plans for the Center in light of the bad blood unleashed by its secret purchase of acres of land in Allston two years...
...beauty as well as for pragmatism and the bottom line. Harvard knows well that the Chapel has historical significance to our academic life, as both Henry James and his son William (for whom the building which so ironically overshadows the chapel is named) read the teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg...
...what better than a white knight for this Cinderella team, I mean, chapel? Southwest Missouri State will probably lose in the next round of March Madness, but their tournament will have been a success. The Swedenborg Chapel deserves a more permanent victory, and Harvard can help it avoid a final foreclosure. Susannah B. Tobin '00 is a classics concentrator in Lowell House. Her column appears on alternate Thursdays...