title: SCRIBE OF HEAVEN: SWEDENBORG'S LIFE, WORK, AND IMPACT (NW CENTURY EDITION)
author: Dr. Jonathan S. Rose
description: <DIV>Emanuel Swedenborg (1688&#194;&#150;1772), a truly remarkable visionary, began his career as a Swedish mining official and member of parliament and became well known throughout Europe as a scientist and prolific writer on scientific and philosophical subjects. After a series of profound religious experiences during midlife, he devoted the remaining twenty-seven years of his life to being a servant of the Lord@ and wrote energetically to communicate a spiritual vision of reality. Since then, the rigid theologies of the eighteenth century have steadily yielded, and the foresighted lucidity of his perspective has gained widening recognition. The fresh and contemporary appeal of Swedenborg's insights arises from the respect he showed for all religious faiths that stress a useful and loving life.</div>
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  Divine Providence
  
  
  The New Century Edition  
  of the Works of Emanuel Swedenborg
  
  
  Jonathan S. Rose  
  Series Editor
  
  
  Stuart Shotwell  
  Managing Editor
  
  
  EDITORIAL COMMITTEE
  
  
  Wendy E. Closterman
  
  
  Lisa Hyatt Cooper
  
  
  George F. Dole
  
  
  David B. Eller
  
  
  Robert H. Kirven
  
  
  Sylvia Shaw
  
  
  Alice B. Skinner
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Angelic Wisdom about
  
  
  Divine Providence
  
  
  Emanuel Swedenborg
  
  
  Translated from the Latin by George F. Dole
  
  
  SWEDENBORG FOUNDATION
  
  
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