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)

The General Church of the New JerusalemThe Swedenborg Foundation

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Overview Belief 3How to Live 1Practice 1Stories & Scripture 1Community 1 You × The New Church (Swedenborgianism) Discussion

Stories

the narratives it tells itself
The Last Judgment, 1757, in the world of spirits. Swedenborg reported witnessing the Judgment through the year 1757 — not on earth but in the intermediate world, where accumulated false heavens were broken up. The Second Coming, on this reading, is the opening of the internal sense of the Word, which is why the New Church dates itself from a revelation rather than an event in the sky. Read it in full — context →

The Scriptures

the texts that carry the stories — and everything else

The Bible, read for its internal sense

Arcana Caelestia (1749-56)

Heaven and Hell (1758)

True Christianity (1771)

Numbers count Panfaith activity only — never real-world adherence.

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