Auteur: George F. Dole

This book introduces the life and spiritual thought of Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772). A Swedish scientist and statesman, he underwent an extraordinary religious experience at age 55 and spent his la …

In his classic Heaven and Hell, Swedenborg takes the reader on a journey through the afterlife, describing the spiritual world in intricate detail. Our Life after Death is a collection of writings fr …

Until his mid-fifties, Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) was merely a genius. As a young man, he traveled extensively throughout Europe to study the cutting-edge science of his time. Upon returning to h …

What happens to us when we die? Are heaven and hell real? If so, what are they like? Heaven and Hell contains the answers to these questions as seen by Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772).This new transla …

Since the dawn of Christianity, there has been debate about the true nature of Jesus Christ. Was he a divinely inspired person or the incarnation of God on earth? In his short work The Lord, Swedenbo …

Swedenborg originally published the two short works Life and Faith separately, but in the text he makes it clear the two title topics are closely intertwined: one cannot truly understand one apart fr …

Throughout his theological writings, Emanuel Swedenborg devotes more pages to discussing the inner, spiritual meaning of the Bible than to any other topic. In the two short works Sacred Scripture and …

Emanuel Swedenborg understood the city of New Jerusalem–as described in the book of Revelation–to mean not a physical city but an epoch of history, a new spiritual age that was just beginning to ta …

One of the unique facets of Swedenborg’s theology is his assertion that the Last Judgment as foretold in the book of Revelation has already happened-that it took place in the spiritual world and woul …

In Other Planets, Emanuel Swedenborg offers us a panorama of a unified and purposeful universe based on his visionary journeys through the unimaginably vast reaches of the spiritual world.Cast in the …

George F. Dole, Harvard Ph.D., has translated and arranged by theme a selection of passages from Swedenborg’s works on life, heaven and hell, and the nature of God. This book is an accessible introdu …

Swedish scientist and visionary Emanuel Swedenborg (1688 1772) writes that the Ten Commandments are the most important part of the Bible. They encapsulate what we need to do to grow as spiritual peop …

This volume contains four shorter works by the influential eighteenth-century mystic Emanuel Swedenborg. Translators George F. Dole and Jonathan S. Rose have produced an accessible rendering of these …

The Universe and I: Where Science & Spirituality Meet offers scholar and theologian George F. Dole’s thought-provoking insights on the dynamic nature of the ongoing science and religion debate. Why a …

Is there really a hell? Should we be good simply to avoid punishment in the life hereafter? Just asking these questions theoretically doesn’t get us far, George F. Dole suggests, but examining the wo …

The four main short works in this volume by Swedish theologian Emanuel Swedenborg (1688 1772) form the basic foundation of his thought. Although originally printed as if they were stand-alone volumes …

These two shorter works by Swedish theologian Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772), originally published separately and very different in content, both represent Swedenborg’s own effort to summarize comple …