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The Gist of Swedenborg
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Title: The Gist of Swedenborg
Author: Emanuel Swedenborg
Editor: Julian K. Smyth and William F. Wunsch
Release Date: May 5, 2005 [eBook #15768]
Language: English
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THE GIST OF SWEDENBORG
Compiled by
JULIAN K. SMYTH and WILLIAM F. WUNSCH
This Book Is Published by the Trustees of the Iungerich Publication Fund Swedenborg Foundation, Inc. New York
1920
FOREWORD
The reason for a compilation such as is here presented should be obvious. Swedenborg's theological writings comprise some thirty or more substantial volumes, the result of the most concentrated labor extending over a period of twenty-seven years. To study these writings in their whole extent, to see them in their minute unfoldment out of the Word of God, is a work of years. It is doubtful if there is a phase of man's religious experience for which an interpretation is not here to be found. Notwithstanding this immense sweep of doctrine there are certain vital, fundamental truths on which it all rests:--the Christ-God, Man a spiritual being, the warfare of Regeneration, Marriage, the Sacred Scriptures, the Life of Ch