Word: swedenborgianism
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...Hudson River school, but neither at home nor during his travels abroad did he ever fall for long under the influence of any one group or man. In everything he did, as a matter of fact, he was a bit out of the mainstream. He was a Swedenborgian, a single taxer, a man who would go to just about any lengths to avoid putting on a new suit. He would work without stopping for 15 hours at a stretch, would often compulsively paint a picture on top of another before the first was even dry. Clients who thought that they...
...18th century Swedish scientist and philosopher who professed to have received a revelation of the Second Coming of Christ. He believed that God Himself was the Divine Man, that through infinite love Man could become the image of his Creator. The Swedenborgian Church still claims 5,647 U.S. members...
...Ohio's Appleseed country, good-humoredly sorts out reluctant fact from ready fancy. Lugging a knapsack with apple seeds into the wilderness about 1800, Massachusetts-born John Chapman for the next 45 years planted his nurseries in inviting places on the Ohio and Indiana frontiers. A dedicated Swedenborgian, he peddled his seedlings and otherworldly chatter among the settlers, wearing rags, walking barefoot even on ice, sleeping on hearths or in hollow logs, and sharing what little he had with white folks, Indians and the birds of the air. Before he died at 70, near Ft. Wayne, Ind., his fame...
Reputation Regained. James remained for most of his life an American citizen. Born in 1843, the second son of the sprightly old Swedenborgian philosopher Henry James, he was kept out of the Civil War by an injury-he had hurt his back putting out a fire in Newport. His younger brothers Wilky and Bob served in the Union Army; his philosopher brother William was already doing scientific research at Harvard. Henry James went to Harvard Law School, was a book reviewer at 22. Repelled by the intense nationalism of Reconstruction days, he deliberately turned his back...
...Everett K. Bray, Church of the New Jerusalem (Swedenborgian...