Swedenborg’s Sudden Choice to Translate Survey into English

We trace the evidence and connect the dots of what happened after Swedenborg published the work Survey. It became the most intense time of Swedenborg’s theological career. We travel to 1769 and witness Swedenborg making decisions that would have ripple effects throughout society in the centuries to come. 

We have the gift of using the unpublished NCE translations of Survey in this episode. You can read the whole thing for yourself when the NCE translation of Survey comes out in 2022! In the meantime, explore Swedenborg's works available for sale and for free download here: https://swedenborg.com/bookstore/new-century-edition/

All translations of Swedenborg's published theological works used in this episode are from the New Century Edition.

REFERENCES:

Acton, Alfred, ed. and trans. The Letters and Memorials of Emanuel Swedenborg. Bryn Athyn, PA: Swedenborg Scientific Association, 1948. 659, 672, 675. 

Sigstedt, Cyriel Odhner. The Swedenborg Epic. New York: Bookman Associates, 1952. Chapter 40.

Swedenborg, Emanuel. A Brief Exposition of the Doctrine of the New Church, Understood in the Apocalypse by the New Jerusalem; Wherein Is Also Demonstrated, that Throughout All the Christian World the Worshipping of Three Gods Is Received, from the Creed of St. Athanasius. [Translated by J. Marchant.] London, 1769.

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