Word: swedenborgianism
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...Hatred. Young Robbie Frost was a spoiled brat almost from the day he was born in San Francisco in 1874. His father was a hard-drinking, Harvard-educated journalist who beat Rob often. His mother indulged the boy, taught him to love poetry and nature; she was a devout Swedenborgian who believed that she had religious visions. It was her influence, says Thompson, that encouraged Robbie and his sister Jeanie to withdraw into a private world as children...
...Gogh works, by a sharp-eyed Pennsylvania clergyman named Theodore Pitcairn. Last week at Christie's in London, it was sold at auction to an anonymous collector for $441,000-the highest price ever paid for a Van Gogh. The proceeds will go to Pastor Pitcairn's Swedenborgian Lord's New Church in Bryn Athyn...
...house, built in the 1830's, represents a form of Greek revival that may have been peculiar to Cambridge. Except for a couple of paint jobs and the removal of some pillars to the basement of the neighboring Swedenborgian Church, the exterior of the Sparks House remains what it was a century...
Actually, the new site -- which does not include the small Swedenborgian Church at the corner of Quincy and Kirkland Streets -- will probably accommodate more than the Design School. Harold L. Goyette, the University's planning officer, said last week that "there is potentially some property there for another facility...
Courage & Zest. Last week, another Swedenborgian church, the General Convention of the New Jerusalem in the U.S.A., held its 141st annual meeting in Philadelphia. About 200 of the faithful showed up to elect new officers and discuss the continuing relevance of the Swedish sage. "His really great mind relates faith to the world of science," said Dr. Dorothea Harvey, associate professor of religion at Lawrence College. Says Adolph Liebert of Pittsburgh, a research and development engineer: "He has given me a perspective on what life is for and how to use it. He gives me the courage and zest...