Emanuel Swedenborg became best known for his book on the afterlife, Heaven and Hell.
At 53, he entered into a spiritual phase in which he began to experience dreams and visions. His experiences culminated in a ‘spiritual awakening’ in which he received a revelation that Jesus Christ had appointed him to write The Heavenly Doctrine to reform Christianity.
The New Church, a new religious movement originally founded in 1787 and comprising several historically-related Christian denominations, reveres Swedenborg's writings as revelation.
Contents:
Arcana Coelestia
Heaven and Hell
The Last Judgment
The White Horse
Earths in the Universe
The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine
The Athanasian Creed
De Domino
Prophets and Psalms
The Word of the Lord from Experience
Last Judgment Posthumous
The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Concerning the Lord
Doctrine of the Sacred Scripture
Doctrine of Life
Doctrine of Faith
Continuation of The Last Judgement
Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom
Divine Providence
Charity
Apocalypse Revealed
The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugal Love
God the Saviour
Canons
Brief Exposition
Interaction of the Soul and the Body
Coronis
Invitation to the New Church
True Christian Religion
Journal of Dreams
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Emanuel Swedenborg ( 8 February 1688 – 29 March 1772) was a Swedish pluralistic-Christian theologian, scientist, philosopher and mystic. He became best known for his book on the afterlife, Heaven and Hell (1758).