His best-known project is the Wayfarers Chapel, also known as " The Glass Church ", an indoor / outdoor structure made almost entirely of glass and built in 1951 for the Swedenborgian church, overlooking the Pacific Ocean on the Palos Verdes Peninsula.

Category: 20th-century Swedenborgian church buildings

Category: 20th-century Swedenborgian church buildings

Sinclairville was the birthplace of New Deal theoretician Rexford Tugwell ( 1891 – 1979 ), and of Charles W. Dorsett ( 1850 – 1936 ), Swedenborgian and Prohibition Party leader, whose wife, Martha Angle Dorsett ( 1851 – 1918 ) was the first woman attorney in Minnesota.

He was also a missionary for The New Church, or Swedenborgian Church, so named because it teaches the theological doctrines contained in the writings of Emanuel Swedenborg.

The article, which was reprinted by Guideposts in 1995, is significant in that it establishes the fact that Helen Keller was indeed a lifelong Swedenborgian.

Among a few intimate associates, he left a memory singularly dear ; having been in companionship, although susceptible and obstinate when his religious creed — a devout Christianity with Swedenborgian admixtures — was crossed or slighted, yet in other things genial and sweet-tempered beyond most men, full of modesty and playfulness and withal of a homely dignity, a true friend and a kind master, a pure and blameless spirit.

James John Garth Wilkinson ( 3June 1812-18 October 1899 ), was a Swedenborgian writer.

He was commemorated by a bust and portrait in the rooms of the Swedenborgian Society in Bloomsbury Street, London.

Isaac Pitman was fervently Swedenborgian.

Her father, who was raised in the Swedenborgian religion, is of Swedish and English ancestry, and is a member of the Swedish noble Gyllenhaal family.

Her last purely Swedish ancestor was her great-grandfather, a descendant of Leonard Gyllenhaal, a leading Swedenborgian who supported the printing and spreading of Swedenborg's writings.

Gyllenhaal's father, who was raised as a Swedenborgian, is of Swedish and English descent, and is a descendant of the Swedish noble Gyllenhaal family.

In politics he was Democrat, in religion a Swedenborgian.

While the Fry family was less vocal about their radicalism in America, their strong affiliation with the Cincinnati Swedenborgian community, and friendships with wealthy progressives and artists suggests that the Fry's and Henry Watkin were well within the mileiu of radical Cincinnati.

Henry James Sr. ( June 3, 1811, Albany, New YorkDecember 18, 1882, Boston, Massachusetts ) was an American theologian and Swedenborgian, best known as the father of the philosopher William James, novelist Henry James, and diarist Alice James.

In May 1844, while living in Windsor, in England, James was sitting alone one evening at the family dinner table after the meal, gazing at the fire, when he had the defining spiritual experience of his life, which he would come to interpret as a Swedenborgian " vastation ," a stage in the process of spiritual regeneration.

Rawsthorne was a great-grandson of Dr. Jonathan Bayley, the educationalist, Latin scholar and Swedenborgian minister distinguished by his philanthropic work in Accrington, Lancashire and in London.

When he was about twenty Harris became a Universalist preacher, and then a Swedenborgian.

She was born Eunice Joerndt in Chicago and raised in Urbana, Ohio, as a Swedenborgian.

She was educated at the Swedenborgian Urbana School and Academy until she dropped out at age sixteen in 1918.

* Samuel was a founding member of the New York Society of the New Church ( Swedenborgian ) and one of his poems became a hymn-" Oh for a seraph's golden lyre "-which is still sung by some New Church congregations.

While more famous for spreading apple seeds throughout the East, Chapman was also a Swedenborgian missionary and helped spread this faith among the early settlers around Urbana.

Chapman encouraged his friend and fellow Swedenborgian, Colonel John James, to donate the land on which Urbana University was built.

As Martin's definition suggests, the countercult ministries concentrate on non-traditional groups that claim to be Christian, so chief targets have been The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Jehovah's Witnesses, Christian Science and the Unification Church, but also smaller groups like the Swedenborgian Church

The Swedenborgian philosopher Mésès has excellently compared rudimentary creations with the most perfect, and embryonic beings with the most complete, in that the former lack all irregularities, protuberances and qualities, which leaves them in more or less spherical form, like the ovum and M. Ubu, while the latter have added so many personal details that they remain equally spherical, following the axiom that the most polished object is that which presents the greatest number of sharp corners.

Thus, Correspondence, for Swedenborgian Christians, shares a link with alchemy, and the " as above, so below " principle.

* 1975: Dorothea W. Harvey became the first woman to be ordained by the Swedenborgian Church.

Johnny Appleseed is remembered in American popular culture by his traveling song or Swedenborgian hymn (" The Lord is good to me ..."), which is today sung before meals in some American households.

By the mid-nineteenth century there were Wesleyan, Primitive Methodist, United Free Methodist, Congregationalist, Baptist, Swedenborgian, Unitarian, Roman Catholic and Catholic Apostolic churches in the town.

Adherents use several names to describe themselves, including Second Advent Christian, Swedenborgian and New Church.

He would tell stories to children, spread the Swedenborgian gospel to the adults, receiving a floor to sleep on for the night, sometimes supper in return.

He made several trips back east, both to visit his sister and to replenish his supply of Swedenborgian literature.

Johnny Appleseed is remembered in American popular culture by his traveling song or Swedenborgian hymn (" The Lord is good to me ..."), which is today sung before meals in some American households.

Braid hypnotised the English Swedenborgian writer Dr. J. J. G.

In 1994, Ray Silverman, a Swedenborgian minister and literary scholar, thoroughly revised and edited My Religion, organizing the eight unwieldy sections of the first edition into twelve distinct chapters with subheadings to clarify their contents.

* The Swedenborg Foundation is a non-profit publisher, book seller, and educational organization which publishes the theological works of Swedenborg, contemporary books and videos on spiritual growth, offers lectures and workshops, and maintains a library of Swedenborgian literature.

After graduation, he left with Dr. Edward Rumely to LaPorte, where he found boarding with a Swedenborgian pastor, Samuel Mack.

Soon he was in trouble there, for defending a woman who was accused of smiling in church.

The unconquerable Mrs. Hutchinson was residing at Pocasset, after having been excommunicated by the Boston church and thrown out of the colony.

it was also sacred, `` and no believer in an inspired church could tolerate having her canons examined as we should examine human laws ''.

He was outraged by the book and announced that he had discovered fifty technical errors in its account of church practices.

He was stern and overbearing with his flock, but obsequious and conciliatory with the whites, especially the rich who partly supported the church.

The characteristic thing about this church was its Amen corner and the weekly religious orgy.

It was arranged that he would board in the home of one of the old members of the church, a woman named Catt who, as Wilson afterward found, was briefly referred to as The Cat because of her sharp tongue and fierce initiative.

Ann Catt was a lonely, devoted soul, never married, conducting a spotless home and devoted to her church, but a perpetual dissenter and born critic.

On the other side of the church was a quiet, well-kept house with shutters and recently painted.

The deacon of the church, Carlson, was its janitor.

But there was one thing that he had to stress, and that was that the contribution to the general church expenses, the dollar money, had been seriously falling behind in this church, and that must be looked after immediately.

Wilson stressed the fact that clear as this was, they must have a better church, a more business-like conduct of the church organization, and an effort to get this religious center out of its rut of wild worship into a modern church organization.

The bank which held the mortgage on the old church declared that the interest was considerably in arrears, and the real estate people said flatly that the land across the river was being held for an eventual development for white working people who were coming in, and that none would be sold to colored folk.

When it was proposed to rebuild the church, Wilson found that the terms for a new mortgage were very high.

There was the slate roof of the church ; ;

There was no church like Drew Church, no preacher like Papa, who was intimate with Him, and could consign sinners to hellfire.