Thesaurus: swedenborgian

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1. n. One who holds the doctrines of the New Jerusalem church, as taught by Emanuel Swedenborg, a Swedish philosopher and religious writer, who was born a. d. 1688 and died 1772. Swedenborg claimed to have intercourse with the spiritual world, through the opening of his spiritual senses in 1745. He taught that the Lord Jesus Christ, as comprehending in himself all the fullness of the Godhead, is the one only God, and that there is a spiritual sense to the Scriptures, which he (Swedenborg) was able to reveal, because he saw the correspondence between natural and spiritual things.
2. a. Of or pertaining to Swedenborg or his views.
3. One who holds the doctrines of the New Jerusalem church, as taught by Emanuel Swedenborg, a Swedish philosopher and religious writer, who was born a. d. 1688 and died 1772. Swedenborg claimed to have intercourse with the spiritual world, through the opening of his spiritual senses in 1745. He taught that the Lord Jesus Christ, as comprehending in himself all the fullness of the Godhead, is the one only God, and that there is a spiritual sense to the Scriptures, which he (Swedenborg) was able to reveal, because he saw the correspondence between natural and spiritual things. Of or pertaining to Swedenborg or his views.
4. One who holds the doctrines of the New Jerusalem church, astaught by Emanuel Swedenborg, a Swedish philosopher and religiouswriter, who was born a. d. 1688 and died 1772. Swedenborg claimed tohave intercourse with the spiritual world, through the opening of hisspiritual senses in 1745. He taught that the Lord Jesus Christ, ascomprehending in himself all the fullness of the Godhead, is the oneonly God, and that there is a spiritual sense to the Scriptures,which he (Swedenborg) was able to reveal, because he saw thecorrespondence between natural and spiritual things.
5. j:100 n. One who holds the doctrines of the New Jerusalem church, as taught by Emanuel Swedenborg, a Swedish philosopher and religious writer, who was born a. d. 1688 and died 1772. Swedenborg claimed to have intercourse with the spiritual world, through the opening of his spiritual senses in 1745. He taught that the Lord Jesus Christ, as comprehending in himself all the fullness of the Godhead, is the one only God, and that there is a spiritual sense to the Scriptures, which he (Swedenborg) was able to reveal, because he saw the correspondence between natural and spiritual things. a. Of or pertaining to Swedenborg or his views.