The New Church (Swedenborgianism)

Denomination·Founded 1787 CE·The organised New Church has never been large — the two North American bodies together count in the thousands, with additional congregations in Britain, Ghana, South Africa, Korea and Japan; growth is African rather than Western. No consolidated figure is published. Swedenborg's readership has always vastly exceeded the church's membership, which is the movement's standing peculiarity.

Judaism → Christianity → Catholicism → Protestantism → The New Church (Swedenborgianism)

Branch

Community

who belongs, how you join, how it is organized
Marriage continues after death, and Swedenborg wrote a book about it that the church still has to explain. Conjugial Love (1768) teaches that a true marriage of one man and one woman is eternal and is the central form of heavenly life. The same volume sets out conditions under which a man may keep a concubine, and every New Church body since has had to decide what to do with those passages. Go deeper — context →
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