Word: swedenborgianism
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...would be difficult to find in the writings of any two religious leaders greater differences in premise and conclusion than in those of Swedenborg and Mrs. Eddy. . . . The claim that this daughter of an almost fanatical member of the Congregational Church was sent to Sunday School at a Swedenborgian church, or even that there was such a church in either of the tiny New Hampshire villages where she grew to womanhood, is as ridiculous as it is untrue...
...members, deciding that Emanuel Swedenborg's revelations of the Scriptures' hidden meanings had hidden meanings all their own, began to incorporate his writings in their services. Result: a schism, creating the General Church of the New Jerusalem which now has 2,500 members and the No. 1 Swedenborgian academy at Bryn Athyn, Pa." The real basis for the schism lay, not in any hidden meanings within hidden meanings, but rather in the belief that the theological writings of Emanuel Swedenborg were Divinely inspired and are, in fact, the Word of God, constituting the Third Testament. The schism...
...Jerusalem now counts its population at 17,000, scattered through every sizable country in the world except China. The U. S. shelters 7,000 Swedenborgians with 100 churches. Because outsiders were inclined to confuse it with Judaism, members now refer to their organization simply as the New Church. The New Church patterns its services on the Episcopalian, its administrative set-up on the Congregational. In 1890 some members, deciding that Emanuel Swedenborg's revelations of the Scriptures' hidden meanings had hidden meanings all their own, began to incorporate his writings in their services. Result: a schism, creating...
...complete census follows: Episcopalian, 1096; Jewish, 840; Catholic, 796; Congregational, 473; Presbyterian, 419; Unitarian, 341; Methodist, 315; Protestant (unspecified) 158; Baptist, 147; Christian Science, 75; Lutheran, 70; Christian Faith, 43; Quakers, 27; Reformed Church, 18; Greek Orthodox, 17; Latter Day Saints, 11; Swedenborgian, 7; Ethical Culture, 7; Dutch Reformed, 7; Evangelical Church, 5; Church of Brethren, 6; Community Church, 4; Buddhist, 4; Seventh Day Adventists, Russian Orthodox, Union Church, Hindu, Moslem, two each; Calvary Reformed, Church of God, Free Church, Federated Church, Mennonite, Orthodox, Calvinist, Modern Humanist, Liberal, Buchanan, Albanian Orthodox, Moravian Universalist, Disciples of Christ, Christendom, Pentecostal, one each...
...American room Catskill Mountains and The Storm by George Inness (1825-1894) were two strong examples of his Corotesque landscapes. An inheritor of the Hudson River School of painters, Swedenborgian Inness received little praise until after his death when critics hailed him a "master of U. S. landscapists." It was otherwise with Winslow Homer (1836-1910) who was acclaimed when he was 19 for a series of lithograph portraits of the Massachusetts Senate. His water colors fill an entire room of the Chicago show. There was many a Homer rendering of the thunderous waters of the Maine coast as well...