The Gist of Swedenborg

About this eBook

Author

Swedenborg, Emanuel, 1688-1772

Credits

E-text prepared by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Diane Monico, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

Language

English

LoC Class

BX: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Christianity: Churches, Church movements

Subject

New Jerusalem Church -- Doctrinal and controversial works

Category

Text

eBook-No.

15768

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15768

Release Date

May 5, 2005

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE GIST OF SWEDENBORG — JULIAN K. SMYTH — WILLIAM F. WUNSCH — 1920
2. 2.TABLE OF CONTENTS
3. 3.FOREWORD
4. 4.BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
5. 5.THE GIST OF SWEDENBORG
6. 6.GOD THE LORD — ONE AND INFINITE — "INTO HIS MARVELLOUS LIGHT" — THE CHRIST-GOD — GOD-MAN — WHY HE CAME — HOW HE CAME — THE LIFE ON EARTH — THE LOVE OF HIS LIFE — "COME UNTO ME" — THE TRINITY; THE FULNESS OF HIS BEING
7. 7.MAN — GOD'S UNRELAXED EFFORT — AN INSTRUMENT OF LIFE — "ABIDE IN ME" — TWO MINDS: TWO WORLDS — INALIENABLE POWERS — THE DRAG OF HEREDITY — LOVES OF SELF AND THE WORLD — THE NEED FOR SELF-ACTION
8. 8.THE WARFARE OF REGENERATION — "TO HIM THAT OVERCOMETH" — REPENTANCE AND THE REMISSION OF SINS — TEMPTATION AND PRAYER — THE GREAT ARENA — "BY LITTLE AND LITTLE" — A NEW MAN — CHILDHOOD — PRAYER — THE SERVICE OF WORSHIP — THE SACRAMENTS — I. BAPTISM — II. THE HOLY SUPPER — THE RESPONSIBLE LIFE IN THE WORLD — THE DECALOGUE
9. 9.MARRIAGE — A PRICELESS JEWEL — THE PROGRESSIVE CHASTITY OF MARRIAGE — THE HEIGHT OF SERVICE — ITS WHOLE ESTATE
10. 10.THE SACRED SCRIPTURES — GOD'S WORD — IN ITS BOSOM SPIRITUAL — THE LETTER OF THE WORD — ITS LANGUAGE — ITS FUNCTION — HOW TO USE IT — ITS DISSEMINATION OF LIGHT — A CANON ON A NEW PRINCIPLE
11. 11.THE LIFE OF CHARITY AND FAITH — THE LAW OF CHARITY — GOOD IN ITS WHOLENESS — THE MAN OF CHARITY — THE ACTIVITY OF CHARITY — FAITH THE PARTNER OF CHARITY — THE PATRIOTISM OF CHARITY — FAITH AND DOUBT — THE FAITH OF THE FAITHFUL — NEIGHBORS — DIVERSIONS
12. 12.THE DIVINE PROVIDENCE — THE DIVINE PURPOSE — THE LAWFUL ORDER OF PROVIDENCE — A WORLD-WIDE LEADING — THE DIVINE PERSEVERANCE — IN THE STREAM OF PROVIDENCE — CARE FOR THE MORROW — THE SUFFERANCE OF EVIL
13. 13.DEATH AND THE RESURRECTION — IMMORTAL BY ENDOWMENT — FROM WORLD TO WORLD — UNHURT BY DEATH — THE WORLD OF SPIRITS — THE WAY OF ONE'S OWN LOVE
14. 14.THE FIRST THREE STATES AFTER DEATH — CONTINUATION OF THE OUTWARD LIFE — REVELATION OF THE INNER LIFE — INSTRUCTED FOR HEAVEN
15. 15.HEAVEN — "THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS WITHIN YOU" — AN ACTUAL WORLD — A WORLD OF ACTION — OUR CHILDREN IN HEAVEN — TOWARD THE MORNING OF LIFE
16. 16.HELL — EVIL IS HELL — EVIL AND PUNISHMENT — GOD WILLS THE DAMNATION OF NONE — MASTER PASSIONS OF HELL — "OUR NAME IS LEGION"
17. 17.COMMUNICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL WORLD — ONE'S SPIRITUAL COMPANY — "MINISTERS OF HIS, THAT DO HIS PLEASURE" — WHOLESOME AND UNWHOLESOME COMMUNICATION — AN UNBROKEN ASSOCIATION
18. 18.THE CHURCH — THE CHURCH IN GOD'S SIGHT — A SUCCESSION OF CHURCHES — EARLY CHRISTIANITY AND ITS DECLINE — THE LORD'S SECOND COMING: WHEN? HOW? — A NEW CHURCH — THE ULTIMATE GOAL
19. 19.MEMORABLE SAYINGS — MEMORABLE SAYINGS

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