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Swedenborgian definitions

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Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1807 of or relating to the teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg or the Church of the New Jerusalem based on his teachings • Swedenborgian noun • Swedenborgianism noun

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Swedenborgian 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Swedenborgian Swe`den*bor"gi*an, a. Of or pertaining to Swedenborg or his views.