Swedenborg, Oetinger, Kant
Subtitle: three perspectives on the secrets of heaven
By: Wouter J. Hanegraaff.
Series: Swedenborg studies ; n0. 18
Publisher: Swedenborg Foundation
Published: 2007
Place of publication: West Chester, Pa
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780877853213
Subjects: Swedenborg, Emanuel, -- 1688-1772.; Oetinger, Friedrich Christoph, -- 1702-1782.; Kant, Immanuel, -- 1724-1804.; Heaven -- Christianity.; New Jerusalem Church -- Doctrines.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: 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.