Swedenborg, Emanuel - Inge Jonsson (essay date 1988)
Inge Jonsson (essay date 1988)
SOURCE: Jonsson, Inge. “Swedenborg and His Influence.” In Swedenborg and His Influence, edited by Erland J. Brock et al., pp. 29-43. Bryn Athyn, Penn.: Academy of the New Church, 1988.
[In the essay below, Jonsson examines Swedenborg's influence on scientific and societal thinking, maintaining that Swedenborg's ideas were an expression of a yearning to create order out of a chaos of information that could not be confined within the limits of scientific rationality.]
In the years around 1760 literary circles in Stockholm slowly began to realize that the anonymous author of a remarkable series of books published in England since 1749 was not only a compatriot but a man of high reputation as a scientist and a civil servant. The series consisted of eight huge volumes in Latin called Arcana Coelestia, Heavenly Secrets, and a number of smaller books summarizing the message in these...
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