http://newchurchhistory.org/funfacts Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:41:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Several days ago we published our 100th New Church History Fun Fact, an online initiative begun in the summer of 2006. Thank you for your support over the past four years. The staff at NewChurchHistory.org are currently evaluating whether or not to continue the Fun Facts initiative. We are conducting ... http://newchurchhistory.org/funfacts/?p=596 Visitors to the city of Stockholm who find themselves with an hour or two to spare can enjoy a walk in Swedenborg's old neighborhood, in the city's Södermalm district. The memory of the Swedish scientist, philosopher and theologian is kept alive in the area thanks to several public monuments in ... http://newchurchhistory.org/funfacts/?p=587 It's July, and the roses are blooming in Swedenborg's summerhouse garden at Skansen, an open-air museum in Stockholm, Sweden. The rose garden at Skansen, designed in 1964 by the landscape architect Walter Bauer, was not intended to replicate Swedenborg’s original garden. Nevertheless, with a little imagination Bauer’s formal garden may ... http://newchurchhistory.org/funfacts/?p=581 The meaning of the complicated apocalyptic imagery that pervades the Book of Revelation is a subject of debate for both Christian and secular scholars. However, in the book Apocalypse Revealed, Emanuel Swedenborg provides a unique explanation, giving an inner meaning to John’s visions. Glencairn Museum’s Great Hall and Upper Hall ... http://newchurchhistory.org/funfacts/?p=577 "Emanuel Swedenborg's theological first editions are rich with ornaments. Swedenborg sent his theological contribution into the world heavily and consistently adorned with graphic decorative touches. Yet few know of their existence. Although every theological word penned by Swedenborg has long ago been translated into English, although subsequent Latin editions, and ... http://newchurchhistory.org/funfacts/?p=570 On February 9, 1917, a banquet was held in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the formation of the General Church of the New Jerusalem. The General Church (a denomination of the New Church) had been formally organized on February 6, 1897. The highlight of the evening ... http://newchurchhistory.org/funfacts/?p=555 In 1910 the International Swedenborg Congress was held in London, England, to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of the foundation of the Swedenborg Society. The Society had officially been instituted on February 26 in 1810 for the purpose of translating and publishing the works of Emanuel Swedenborg. About four hundred ... http://newchurchhistory.org/funfacts/?p=547 August Nordenskjold, born in Finland in 1754, was one of the earliest promoters of the works of Emanuel Swedenborg in Sweden. At some point approximately twenty-six first edition volumes of Swedenborg’s writings, containing Nordenskjold's signature, were acquired by John Pitcairn (1841-1916). The books were on exhibit in the John Pitcairn Archives for ... http://newchurchhistory.org/funfacts/?p=540 "Of one thing I am sure; any effort is worth while that brings comfort to limited, struggling human beings in a dark, self-centered age; and Swedenborg's message has meant so much to me! It has given color and reality and unity to my thought of the life to come; it ... http://newchurchhistory.org/funfacts/?p=534 "Huntingdon Valley, Pa.-Correspondents will please note: There is no such post office as Bryn Athyn. Letters so addressed will be apt to go to the Dead Letter Office at Washington. It is now the name of the nearest railroad station, however (formerly 'Alnwick Grove'), and when the community has largely ... http://newchurchhistory.org/funfacts/?p=528