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Five Harvard Divinity School students received awards from the Swedenborg Foundation last night for essays on the contribution of Emanuel Swedenborg to religious thought...
...Swedenborg, Kierkegaard, Toynbee, et al. When he does not have his avant-garde up, Wilson sounds suspiciously like Norman Vincent Peale: "It is not original sin that keeps man unaware of his own godhood, but his failure to connect himself with his own powerhouse...
...more than twelve years we have not missed an issue of TIME, and feel that your reporting is consistently good, your scientific articles are intelligently selected and your Religion and Medicine departments always interesting and stimulating, but our church office is flooded with protests against the "caricature" of Emanuel Swedenborg in your June 28 issue. Could you please permit your readers to view a better likeness...
...Colossal Soul." At Swedenborg's death, in 1772, there were no plans to form an association of his followers. But 16 years later a group of British Sweden-borgians formed the first Church of the New Jerusalem at Great Eastcheap, London, and as early as 1784 a London Scot named James Glen was preaching Swedenborgianism in Philadelphia and Boston...
...forthcoming World Council of Churches Assembly at Evanston, 111.: "The Second Coming of the Lord is a process already going on, changing the very environment ... of all mankind. It is not to be a bodily Coming . . . That Second Coming is as the very spirit of truth . . . We feel Swedenborg has been a chosen instrument ... to make the truth concerning the Second Coming better known...