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Appearance and Reality in the Relationship...
Theme: Swedenborg and His Influence. Session 5: Religion. Full Title: ...Between the Finite Soul and the Infinite Source. Michael Stanley is Principal of the New Church College, a Swedenborgian theological seminary in Manchester, England. With a doctorate in Physics, his career moved from research in solid state physics to philosophy, psychology, and religion and particularly to the spiritual symbolism of the Bible as set forth by Swedenborg. Dr. Stanley has particular interest in the synthesizing potential of the New Age, and of the power of Swedenborg's teachings in focusing this synthesis toward spiritual renewal. | By Dr. Michael Stanley | Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
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Swedenborg & the Wesleyans: Opposition or Outgrowth
Theme: Swedenborg and His Influence Session 5: Religion. Samuel Rogan is chariman of the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts at Illinois Valley Community College. He received a Masters Degree in English from the University of Pittsburgh. With broad experience in the teaching of English, writing as well as literature, he has also made concentrated studies of John and Charles Wesley and of the cultural impact of Methodism in many areas of British and thence American life, ethical and musical as well as religious. | By Samuel J Rogal | Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
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Glimpses of Heaven
Theme: Swedenborg and His Influence. Session 5: Religion. Bernhard Lang is presently Professor of Religion at the University of Paderborn, Germany. Born in Stuttgart, he received doctorates in Theology from the Universities of Tubingen and Freiburg. He has also taught at Tubingen and Temple University. With particular interests in anthropology and Near Eastern cultures, Dr. Lang has published several books related to religion, including the prophetical books of the Old Testament and other monotheistic aspects of the Bible. (To see all 24 talks from this event, select "Swedenborg Symposium" from the Group search on the home page.) | By Dr. Bernhard Lang | Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
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True Christian Religion as Apologetic Theology
Theme: Swedenborg and His Influence. Session 5 Topic: Religion . (To see all 24 talks from this event, select "Swedenborg Symposium" from the Group search on the home page.) | By Rev. George F. Dole | Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
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Swedenborg, Jacobitism and Freemasonry
Theme: Swedenborg and His Influence. Session 6: History. (To see all 24 talks from this event, select "Swedenborg Symposium" from the Group search on the home page.) | By Marsha K. Schuchard | Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
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Alfred Deakin and Swedenborg: An Australian Experience
Theme: Swedenborg and His Influence. Session 6: History. Alfred Gabay teaches at La Trobe University in Victoria, Australia, in the Department of History, where he recently received a doctoral degree. With a baccalaureate degree in Philosophy from the University of California, he has particular interest in religious thought and its cultural influence, and especially in psychic experience. In this connection, he has published studies of Alfred Deakin, a late 19th Century prime minister of Australia. (To see all 24 talks from this event, select "Swedenborg Symposium" from the Group search on the home page.) | By Dr. Alfred J. Gabay | Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
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Gustav Werner and Johann Gottlieb Mittnacht: ...
Theme: Swedenborg and His Influence. Session 6: History. Full Title: ...Forms of Hidden and Open Swedenborgianism in the 19th Century German Southwest. Eberhard Zwink is a librarian and head of the catalogue department in the Wurttembergische Landesbibiothek, Germany. His subject specialties are theology and religion, philosophy, the Bible collection (one of the world's largest), and the Swedenborg collection. He received his doctorate from the University of Tubingen in Musicology, and later trained for librarianship. He has organized exhibitions on the Bible of Luther, on Friedrich C. Oetinger, and others. | By Dr. Eberhard Zwink | Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
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The Effect of Swedenborgianism on the Later Paintings of George Inness
Banquet Address - February 09, 1988
Theme: Swedenborg and His Influence. Banquet: Ambassador Lars Bergquist, Toastmaster. Speaker: Mary E. Phillips holds Masters Degrees in Arts and Fine Arts from Northern Illinois University, where her thesis was "The Development of Spiritual Unity in the Paintings of George Inness." She has taught at Siena Heights College in Michigan, and teaches at Philips University in Oklahoma. She has been active in conducting study/travel programs and art history tours, and is a free-lance artist, with several shows at colleges and universities. (To see all 24 talks from this event, select "Swedenborg Symposium" from the Group search on the home page.) | By Mary E. Phillips | Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
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Howard Pyle, Swedenborg and the Artist's Soul
Banquet Address - February 09, 1988
Theme: Swedenborg and His Influence Banquet. Full Title: Twilight Altitudes: Howard Pyle, Swedenborg and the Artist's Soul. Mary Holahan is Registrar of the Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington, charged with supervision of all exhibitions and oversight of the permanent collections. She received her doctorate from the University of Delaware, where she has also taught art history. Her many public lectures have included studies of Swedenborg's influence on Yeats, Blake, and other artists. | By Dr. Mary F. Holahan | Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
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The Chicago City Plan
Banquet Address - February 09, 1988
Theme: Swedenborg and His Influence. Irving D. Fisher is Professor of political science at the University of Southern Maine in Portland, Maine. He took his Ph.D. in Political Philosophy at Columbia University, and at Bowdoin College. He initiated his study of Daniel Burnham's "Plan of Chicago" while a Fellow in the National Endowment for the Humanities Seminar at Columbia University. Fisher has been director of the Robert A. Taft Institute of Government Seminar at the University of Southern Maine since 1979. He is the author of the book "Frederick Lars Olmsted and the City Planning Movement in the United States", published in 1986. (To see all 24 talks from this event, select "Swedenborg Symposium" from the Group search on the home page.) | By Dr. Irving D. Fisher | Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
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Swedenborg and Kant Revisited: The Long Shadow of Kant's Attack and a New Response
Theme: Swedenborg and His Influence. Session 2: Philosophy and Social Science. (To see all 24 talks from this event, select "Swedenborg Symposium" from the Group search on the home page.) | By Robert H. Kirven | Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
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Swedenborg, Cultism, and the Problem of Evil
Swedenborg Symposium. Theme: Swedenborg and His Influence. Session #2: Philosophy and Social Science. An expert on cults presents his analysis. (To see all 24 talks from this event, select "Swedenborg Symposium" from the Group search on the home page.) | By Dr. Thomas W. Keiser | Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
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Swedenborg's Political Thought
Theme: Swedenborg and His Influence. Session 2: Philosophy and Social Science | By Rev. Daniel W. Goodenough | Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
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Swedenborg's Appearance in the History of American Psychology
Theme: Swedenborg and His Influence. Session 2: Philosophy and Social Science. Eugene Taylor is an Associate in Psychology at Harvard Medical School, consultant in the History of Psychology at Massachusetts General Hospital, and author of "William James on Exceptional Mental States". He has lectured widely in the US and Canada on various topics including the life and work of Swedenborg and his influence on American culture. (To see all 24 talks from this event, select "Swedenborg Symposium" from the Group search on the home page.) | By Dr. Eugene Taylor | Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
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Swedenborg as Cosmologist
Theme: Swedenborg and His Influence, Session 3: Swedenborg and Science. Gustaf O. Svante Arrhenius, PhD (grandson of the Nobel laureate Svante August Arrhenius) was born in Sweden and received his doctorate in Oceanography at the University of Stockholm. In his distinguished career as an earth scientist he has been the recipient of several research fellowships in the U.S. and Europe, and has served as director of the space research lab at San Diego. He is presently engaged in research at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at La Jolla, California. His fields of interest include geochemistry and cosmochemistry. (To see all 24 talks from this event, select "Swedenborg Symposium" from the Group search on the home page.) | By Dr. Gustaf O.S. Arrhenius | Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
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Limits to Knowledge: The Mechanics of Ignorance
Theme: Swedenborg and His Influence. Session 3: Swedenborg and Science. (To see all 24 talks from this event, select "Swedenborg Symposium" from the Group search on the home page.) | By Dr. Gregory L. Baker | Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
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Recapitulation Theories and Man's Place in Universe
Theme: Swedenborg and His Influence. Session 3: Swedenborg and Science. (To see all 24 talks from this event, select "Swedenborg Symposium" from the Group search on the home page.) | By Linda Simonetti Odhner | Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
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The Importance of Swedenborg to Emerson's Ethics
Theme: Swedenborg and His Influence. Session 4: Swedenborg and the American Enlightenment. Anders Hallengren, a native of Stockholm, received a Masters Degree from the University of Stockholm with the thesis, "Emerson's Unio Mystica." He has taught literature and philosophy, and was a Visiting Fellow in the Department of History at Harvard University in 1987. Having published numerous books and pamphlets, he has been awarded a research grant from the Swedenborg fund of the royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. His dissertation on Emerson and Swedenborg will be published this year. | By Dr. Anders Hallengren | Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
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The Influence of Swedenborg on the Religious Ideas of Henry James, Sr.
Theme: Swedenborg and His Influence. Session 4: Swedenborg and the American Enlightenment. Dwight Hoover is Professor of History at Ball State University. He received his doctorate from the University of Iowa. He has specialized in three facets of American history: intellectual, urban, and black. Among the recurrent themes in his research and publications is that of "Middletown," Muncie, Indiana. He has written widely on cultural and ethnic themes in American life. Especially pertinent to this Symposium is his book, "Henry James, Sr. and the Religion of Community". (To see all 24 talks from this event, select "Swedenborg Symposium" from the Group search on the home page.) | By Dr. Dwight G. Hoover | Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
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A Scientific Spiritualism: The Elder James' Adaptation of Swedenborg
Theme: Swedenborg and His Influence. Session 4: Swedenborg and the American Enlightenment. Paul Croce teaches in the Department of History at Rollins College. He received his doctorate from Brown University with a study of William James' early intellectual development. He has made numerous studies in the fields of religion, philosophy, and science as cross currents in the cultural history of America, and currently has under review a major work, "The Education of William James". Dr. Croce participated in a recent conference at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, on religion and modern American intellectual history. (To see all 24 talks from this event, select "Swedenborg Symposium" from the Group search on the home page.) | By Dr. Paul J Croce | Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
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Swedenborg Symposium Keynote Address
Academic Symposium on the 300th Anniversary of Swedenborg's Birth. Theme: Swedenborg and His Influence. Welcome: Dr. Jane K. Williams-Hogan. Introduction: President Geoffrey S. Childs. Speaker: Inge Jonsson-Keynote Address. Inge Jonsson is Vice President and President-elect of the University of Stockholm, a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Academy of Letters, and is presently active also as Secretary-General of the Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences. He received his doctorate in Comparative Literature from the University of Stockholm in 1961. Among his publications are "Swedenborg's Korrespondenslara" in the Series "Acta universitatis Stockhomiensis," 1969 and "Emanuel Swedenborg," Twayne Press, 1971. More recently Dr. Jonsson co-authored the book "Swedenborg", Proprius Press, 1976, with Rev. Olle Hjern. (To see all 24 talks from this event, select "Swedenborg Symposium" from the Group search on the home page.) | By Dr. Inge Jonsson | Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
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Great Chaos and the Infinite Order...
Theme: Swedenborg and His Influence. Session 1: Swedenborg and European Literature. Full title: ...SPIRITUAL JOURNEYS OF SWEDENBORG & STRINDBERG. Goran Stockenstrom is Professor of Scandanavian Languages and Literature at the University of Minnesota. Born in Sweden, he received his doctorate at Uppsala University, where Swedenborg was educated. He has specialized in Strindberg and Ibsen, and has pioneered in research on Swedish-American culture. Dr. Stockenstrom is also active as advisor of productions of Scandanavian plays. (To see all 24 talks from this event, select "Swedenborg Symposium" from the Group search on the home page.) | By Dr. Goran Stockenstrom | Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
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Carl Jonas Almquist-Poet and Swedenborgian Heretic
Theme: Swedenborg and His Influence. Session 1: Swedenborg and European Literature. Olle Hjern is Chairman of the Scandinavian Swedenborg Society. He was ordained a priest of the New Church in 1958 and received his Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Stockholm, specializing in Sacred Languages and the History of Religion. He was co-author with Inge Jonsson of the book "Swedenborg," Proprius Press, 1976, among other publication. Rev. Hjern, who is undoubtedly Sweden's most esteemed scholar of Swedenborgiana and New Church history, has been editor of "Nya Kyrkans Tidning" for more than thirty years and is active as Pastor of the Swedish Society of "The Lord's New Church". (To see all 24 talks from this event, select "Swedenborg Symposium" from the Group search on the home page.) | By Rev. Olle Hjern | Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
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Swedenborgianism in the Works of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Theme: Swedenborg and His Influence. Session 1: Swedenborg and European Literature Full title: ... : Desocialization and the Victorian Ghost Story. (To see all 24 talks from this event, select "Swedenborg Symposium" from the Group search on the home page.) | By Dr. John H. Cerullo | Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall
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