Swedenborg, Oetinger, Kant : [manuscript] : three perspectives on the secrets of heaven /

Hanegraaff, Wouter J.

Swedenborg, Oetinger, Kant : three perspectives on the secrets of heaven / [manuscript] : Wouter J. Hanegraaff. - West Chester, Pa. : Swedenborg Foundation, c2007. - xxiii, 170 p. ; 23 cm. - Swedenborg studies ; n0. 18 .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Swedenborg's secrets of heaven -- A key to the secrets : Swedenborg's doctrine of correspondences -- The structure of secrets of heaven -- Method, history, and doctrine -- The method of biblical exegesis -- History and the styles of the word -- Teachings about charity and faith -- Biblical exegesis -- Genesis on the development of churches -- Genesis on the Lord's inner development -- Exodus on the spiritual church -- Accounts of memorable occurrences -- Heaven, hell, and their inhabitants -- The universal human constituted of angelic communities -- Hells and the process of spiritual devastation -- Oetinger, Kant, and the early reception of secrets of heaven -- The early reception of secrets of heaven -- Friedrich Christoph Oetinger -- Oetinger's first acquaintance with Swedenborg -- Swedenborgs and others earthly and heavenly philosophy -- From qualified acceptance to unqualified rejection -- Swedenborg in Oetinger's last works -- Immanuel Kant -- The Knobloch letter and the Herder fragments -- Dreams of a spirit seer -- Early reviews -- The later lectures on metaphysics -- What was at stake? -- Some later readers of secrets of heaven.

9780877853215 (pbk)

2007000341


Swedenborg, Emanuel, 1688-1772. Arcana coelestia.
Oetinger, Friedrich Christoph, 1702-1782.
Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804.


Heaven--Christianity.
New Jerusalem Church--Doctrines.

BX8712.A89 / H36 2007

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