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|birth_name = Emanuel Swedberg |birth_date = |birth_place = Stockholm, Sweden |death_date = |death_place = |occupation = |notableworks = |era = 18th-century |tradition_movement = Lutheran Christianity |main_interests = |notable_ideas = }} }} Emanuel Swedenborg (;〔("Swedenborg" ). ''Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary''.〕 ; born Emanuel Swedberg on 29 January 1688;〔29 January 9 Old Style 8 February New Style〕 died 29 March 1772) was a Swedish scientist, philosopher, theologian, revelator, and mystic.〔 and the ''Encyclopedia of Religion'' (1987), which starts its article with the description that he was a "Swedish scientist and mystic." Others have not used the term, e.g. (Williams-Hogan, Jane (2005) in ''Encyclopedia of Religion'' ) Retrieved 15 July 2013.〕 He is best known for his book on the afterlife, ''Heaven and Hell'' (1758).〔Bergquist, Preface (p. 15–16)〕 Swedenborg had a prolific career as an inventor and scientist. In 1741, at age 53, he entered into a spiritual phase in which he began to experience dreams and visions, beginning on Easter weekend of 6 April 1744. This culminated in a 'spiritual awakening', in which he received revelation that he was appointed by the Lord to write ''The Heavenly Doctrine'' to reform Christianity.〔See Swedenborg, E. (''The Heavenly Doctrine'' )〕 According to ''The Heavenly Doctrine'' the Lord had opened Swedenborg's spiritual eyes, so that from then on he could freely visit heaven and hell and talk with angels, demons and other spirits; and the Last Judgment had already occurred, in 1757.〔(Swedenborg, E. ''The Last Judgment and Babylon Destroyed. All the Predictions in the Apocalypse are at This Day Fulfilled.'' (Swedenborg Foundation 1952, Paragraphs 1–74) ) Retrieved 16 August 2013.〕 For the remaining 28 years of his life, Swedenborg wrote eighteen published theological works, and several more which were unpublished. He termed himself a "Servant of the Lord Jesus Christ" in ''True Christian Religion'', a work he published himself. Some followers of ''The Heavenly Doctrine'' believe that, of his theological works, only those which Swedenborg published himself are fully divinely inspired.〔See (“Which of Swedenborg’s books are Divine revelation?” )〕 ==Biography== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Emanuel Swedenborg」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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