Emanuel Swedenborg
Published by smfoto on Sunday, 25 February 2007 at 00:59At the age of fifty six he entered into a spiritual phase, in which he experienced dreams and visions. This culminated in a spiritual awakening, where he felt he was appointed by the Lord to write a Swedenborg's theological writings have elicited a range of responses. Toward the end of Swedenborg's life, small reading groups formed in England and Sweden to study the truth they saw in his teachings and several writers were influenced by him, including William Blake, August Strindberg, Charles Baudelaire, Balzac, William Butler Yeats and Carl Jung. 
heavenly doctrine based on a reformed Christianity. He claimed that the Lord had opened his eyes, so that from then on he could freely visit heaven and hell, and talk with angels, devils, and other spirits. For the remaining 28 years of his life, he wrote and published 18 theological works, of which the best known was Heaven and Hell (1758) and several unpublished theological works.
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2 September 2008 at 19:32
Swedenborg is one of the most ignored Christian theologians of the modern age. His writings are quite comprehensive, but based on logic and Biblical verses. Very obscure passages are explained from the symbolism revealed in his visions. He was revealed a kind of theology that solves many questions people often bring up concerning Jesus Christ and Christianity.
