Swe`den*bor"gi*an (?), n. One who
holds the doctrines of the New Jerusalem church, as taught by Emanuel
Swedenborg, a Swedish philosopher and religious writer, who was
born a. d. 1688 and died 1772. Swedenborg claimed to have
intercourse with the spiritual world, through the opening of his
spiritual senses in 1745. He taught that the Lord Jesus Christ, as
comprehending in himself all the fullness of the Godhead, is the one
only God, and that there is a spiritual sense to the Scriptures, which
he (Swedenborg) was able to reveal, because he saw the correspondence
between natural and spiritual things.
Swe`den*bor"gi*an, a. Of or
pertaining to Swedenborg or his views.
Swe`den*bor"gi*an (?), n. One who
holds the doctrines of the New Jerusalem church, as taught by Emanuel
Swedenborg, a Swedish philosopher and religious writer, who was
born a. d. 1688 and died 1772. Swedenborg claimed to have
intercourse with the spiritual world, through the opening of his
spiritual senses in 1745. He taught that the Lord Jesus Christ, as
comprehending in himself all the fullness of the Godhead, is the one
only God, and that there is a spiritual sense to the Scriptures, which
he (Swedenborg) was able to reveal, because he saw the correspondence
between natural and spiritual things.
Swe`den*bor"gi*an, a. Of or
pertaining to Swedenborg or his views.