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

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

Core Tenets

2 — a sample of the center, never the sum Part of Belief →
The shared center — held across the tradition
God is one person, and that person is Jesus Christ. Swedenborg held that a Trinity of three persons is three gods however carefully worded, and that the trinity is of soul, body and proceeding operation within the one divine human. It is the doctrine that put the New Church permanently outside orthodox Christianity while sounding, to a casual visitor, entirely churchlike. Go deeper — context →
Every word of Scripture has an internal sense, and it is systematic. Correspondence is not metaphor: a horse in the Word always signifies the understanding, a stone always truth, water always truth in its natural form. Twelve volumes of the Arcana Caelestia go through Genesis and Exodus verse by verse on this basis, and the church regards the key as given rather than devised. Go deeper — context →

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

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