New Church Foundations – Program Series
A workbook designed to serve people who are exploring questions about God, life after death, the Bible, and spiritual growth, and are interested in the New Church perspective on these ideas.
You Can Believe! by Grant Schnarr
Discover what prevents you from truly believing and what believing can mean for you. Use the free You Can Believe Workbook (PDF) and for activities and tools for applying Schnarr's positive discoveries. Completing the workbooks helps you build a strong and logical framework of answers to your questions about life.
The Arrivals, by Naomi Gladish Smith
Naomi Smith dramatizes the afterlife as a place in which we learn who we truly have been, or rather who we truly are. She reveals that hell is neither external punishment nor other people, as Sarte thought, but rather ourselves, if we lack the capability of self-sacrifice and love. Similarly, heaven is reserved for those who have offered themselves in love and selflessness toward others.
Divine Love and Wisdom – New Century Edition, by Emanuel Swedenborg
This spiritual classic, now in a new and eminently readable translation, offers unique and often surprising answers to age-old questions about the nature of God, the universe, and the inner self.
Divine Love and Wisdom has been called the most profound work of the Enlightenment scientist and seer Emanuel Swedenborg. It demonstrates how God's love, wisdom, and humanity are reflected in creation and in ourselves, and suggests that the act of Creation is not a mystery of the past, but a miracle ongoing in every instant of the present.
Like George F. Dole's other masterful translations, his rendering of Divine Love and Wisdom captures the striking qualities of Swedenborg's prose – its dignity, simplicity, clarity, and emotional warmth.
Divine Love and Wisdom & Divine Providence – New Century Edition, by Emanuel Swedenborg
This is a beautiful compound book of two of Emanuel Swedenborg's most profound and influential theological works. In Divine Love and Wisdom Emanuel Swedenborg explores the respective natures of God and man, spiritual and natural life. Divine Providence explores the nature of the interaction between the two, explaining the laws that govern God's power and goodness, and human freedom.
George F. Dole's exquisite translation is straightforward and direct, while carrying with it all the splendor and emotion of Swedenborg's original text.
Divine Providence – New Century Edition, by Emanuel Swedenborg
This spiritual classic, newly translated into clear modern English, describes in vivid detail the universal spiritual laws that shape the world and our lives.
Divine Providence is one of the major works of Emanuel Swedenborg, a scientist of the Enlightenment period and religious seer. It provides a coherent and satisfying solution to what has been called "the problem of evil."
Heaven and Hell – New Century Edition, Emanuel Swedenborg (Dole)
This new translation of Emanuel Swedenborg`s most popular work paints a detailed picture of life in the spiritual realm. George Dole`s translation removes the barriers to understanding imposed by the ponderous translations of the past. It retains the dignity, variety, clarity, and gender-inclusive language of the original Latin, bringing the work to life. This is the first book to be published of the New Century Edition of the Works of Emanuel Swedenborg.
Light In My Darkness, by Helen Keller, Revised by Ray Silverman
In this revision and expansion of her My Religion, is the story of how Helen Keller, born blind and deaf, found wonder and joy in spiritual life through Swedenborg. Her personal spiritual account shows his effect on great thinkers through the ages, exploring his theology and describing his achievement of deeper awareness from the view-point of one who has followed a parallel path.
The Path, by Rev. Geoffrey Childs
Geoffrey Childs writes a moving and thoughtful book based upon the works of 18th-century theologian Emanuel Swedenborg. Swedenborg wrote that the stories of the Old Testament reveal the secrets surrounding the thoughts and feelings of Jesus Christ. Geoffrey Childs studies these Theological Writings, and uses the stories of Genesis to unveil the thoughts of the man who created a way for us to live life in peace, wisdom, and love—Jesus Christ.
Rise Above It, Ray and Star Silverman
If you want to enter into life - a joyful, peaceful, vibrant, and deeply spiritual life - the path is simple: believe in God and keep the commandments. Sometimes however, this is easier said than done. This book delves into each of the Ten Commandments and shows how we can keep them in our daily lives. Drawing from different sacred texts, including the Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg, this book shows how by living a life according to the commandments we can be happier here on earth and continuing into the next life. Filled with candid and inspiring journal entries from seminar participants, and enriched by the teachings of the great religions, this book invites you to enter into a life of ever increasing love, wisdom, and service.
Spirituality That Makes Sense, by Rev. Douglas Taylor
Taylor's new book is an easily understood overview of New Church thought – a theology that "makes sense." Developing a clear idea of God, Taylor says, "is of supreme importance and has consequences to eternity."
The book explains the concepts of the Creator as the Redeemer, the spiritual world, redemption, and the Trinity. Taylor looks at personal morality in New Church (Swedenborgian) terms, addressing such concerns as what is "saving" faith, and what is the nature of evil, how to escape from evil impulses, and why we must take responsibility for our actions. Carefully selected Bible passages support his discussion. This book is for those who seek solutions to religious mysteries.