Author: Swedenborg, Emanuel, 1688-1772,
Author: Swedenborg Society,
Publication year: 2017
Format: Hardback
Publisher: The Swedenborg Society
Resource type: Physical
ISBN: 9780854481651 (hbk.) :
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Translated from the Latin.
Swenborgianism
New Jerusalem Church
Philosophy
Religion
First published in 1758, 'Heaven and Hell' is one of the most influential books of the last 250 years. Cited as a key influence on William Blake, Czeslaw Milosz, Ralph Waldo Emerson, D.T. Suzuki, Jorge Luis Borges and numerous others, its impace on modern philosophy, literature and theology is now beyond measure. In it Swedenborg offers one of the most compelling and original accounts of the afterlife in Western thought.
Original title: De coelo et ejus mirabilibus. English