Swedenborg's Secret: The Meaning and Significance of the Word of God, the Life of the Angels, and Service to God; a Biography - Hardcover

Bergquist, Lars

 
9780854481439: Swedenborg's Secret: The Meaning and Significance of the Word of God, the Life of the Angels, and Service to God; a Biography
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0854481435 ISBN 13: 9780854481439
Verlag: The Swedenborg Society, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

Swedenborg’s Secret is the first major study of the eighteenth-century Swedish philosopher and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772) to be published in English for over fifty years, being a translation of the critically acclaimed Swedish biography Swedenborg’s Hemlighet (1999). Beautifully designed and illustrated throughout with ten color plates and forty-four black-and-white pictures, Swedenborg’s Secret is an authoritative and full-length biography that is immensely readable.

Using a wealth of historical material, Lars Bergquist paints a vivid portrait of an ambitious and practical man who was one of the greatest figures of the Enlightenment, a polymath who was a poet, inventor, mathematician, mineralogist, anatomist, and cosmologist. Bergquist also reveals Swedenborg to be a “man of two worlds,” someone who not only played an active part in the political life of his nation but who was also a spiritual visionary, setting out a stunning vision of human destiny in works such as Heaven and Hell and New Jerusalem. Swedenborg’s Secret reclaims Swedenborg from the margins of contemporary thought and places him where he belongs: as a founding figure of modern spirituality and Western philosophy.

The book also contains a chronology of Swedenborg’s life and contemporary events, an appendix listing the contents of Swedenborg’s personal library and other books he was known to have owned or read, a comprehensive bibliography, and a full index.

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Lars Bergquist was winner of the Wahlstrom and Widstrand Literature Prize and the Östrabo Prize in 1994. He is a writer and a former diplomat whose postings have included Moscow, London, Peking, and the Vatican. Lars also served as president of the National Council for Culture in Sweden from 1993 to 1997 and president of the Swedenborg Society in 2010. He has published many books in Swedish, including novels, biographies, diaries, translations of poetry, and several studies of Swedenborg.

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Verlag
The Swedenborg Society
Erscheinungsdatum
2005
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0854481435
ISBN 13 
9780854481439
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
544
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