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Swedenborg's Secret
Lars Bergquist
其他書名
The Meaning and Significance of the Word of God, the Life of the Angels, and Service to God : a Biography
出版
The Swedenborg Society
, 2005
主題
Biography & Autobiography / General
Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / General
Biography & Autobiography / Philosophers
Biography & Autobiography / Religious
Philosophy / General
Philosophy / Religious
Religion / Meditations
Religion / Christianity / Protestant
Religion / Spirituality
Religion / Christianity / Denominations
Science / Life Sciences / Biology
ISBN
0854481435
9780854481439
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=xkyrk7cZWHsC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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.