Swedenborgianism

Swedenborgianism is the ecclesiastical organization of beliefs developed from the writings of Emanuel Swedenborg, and as such, considered a religious movement by many. Many aspects are closely related to Christianity, and the movement is founded on the belief that Swedenborg witnessed the Last Judgment and second advent of the Lord, along with the inauguration of the New Church and an explanation of the spiritual meaning of the literal sense of the Scriptures. Some Swedenborian organizations teach that the writings of Swedenborg (often called The Writings) are a third part of the Bible and have the same authority as the Old and New Testaments. Other names for the movement are also used, especially by adherents, including New Christians, Neo-Christians, The New Church, and Church of the New Jerusalem.

Influence

Notable persons influenced either by Swedenborg's writing or by the New Church include:

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• Johnny Appleseed-Swedenborgian missionary and the Swedenborgian society of Manchester, England was the first to write about him.
• Honoré de Balzac
• Henry Ward Beecher
• William Blake
• Elizabeth and Robert Browning
• Thomas Carlyle
• Robert Carter III-Became a Swedenborgian in 1787 after his wife died and stayed with it.
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Robert Frost
• George Inness
• Henry James Sr.-lectured on Swedenborg's thought
• Carl Jung
• Helen Keller-wrote Light in my Darkness which advocated the ideals of Emanuel Swedenborg
• Fitz Hugh Ludlow
• William Page
• Coventry Patmore
• Walt Whitman
• Bill Wilson