Swedenborgian

Examples

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• He is a devoted Swedenborgian who attends the church every Sunday to study Emanuel Swedenborg's teachings.

• Creation, for Swedenborgians, was "a purely gerundive matter -- God's perpetual act," with God holding "the work to man, at every stage."

  Academic text (2010)

• Well, Fred claims that finding him that night was when Father first became interested in what our brother called the "Swedenborgian shit," but saving Fred was also, it turns out, only one of Father's many "rescues" in those Depression years.

  Fiction book (2002)

• Surrendering Virginia (or surrendering to Virginia) once and for all, he ended the year by moving north to Baltimore and surrounding himself with members of the tiny Swedenborgian New Church.

  Academic text (2001)

• His father too walked somewhere in these familiar woods, drawn from his chilly Swedenborgian paradise to comment on the miraculous return of the beaver and to explain the phenomenon of the northern lights.

  Fiction book (1995)

• "All this was, of course, before he discovered the Swedenborgians, whom he supposedly stumbled upon during one of his famous late-night walks a few blocks from the office, the place that is now, I do believe, called the Swedenborg Spiritual Growth Center.

  Fiction book (2002)

• The Swedenborgian idea of "correspondences," so dear to Baudelaire and the Symbolists, is nowhere better illustrated than in the Occidental vision of the Oriental wise man.

  Academic text (1990)

• She is, I think, a Mesmerist, a Swedenborgian, a phrenologist, a homopathist, and a disciple of Priessnitz—what more I am not prepared to say.

  Academic text (2018)

• The Swedenborgian community in Baltimore gathers weekly to discuss spiritual matters and support each other.

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