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The New Church (or Swedenborgianism) can refer to any of several historically related Christian denominations that developed under the influence of the theology of Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772). The Swedenborgian tradition is considered to be a part of Restorationist Christianity .
The New Church (Swedenborgian), general term for Swedenborgian denominations; Swedenborgian Church of North America, also known as the General Convention of the New Jerusalem; General Church of the New Jerusalem, also known as the General Church; Lord's New Church Which Is Nova Hierosolyma, also known as the Lord's New Church
The church also operates an online church called Swedenborgian Community Online which provides weekly resources on its website and social media. [3] In 2003, the Swedenborgian Church of North America had about 1,800 members, almost identical to the membership it had in 1981 but rather less than the 5,440 it had in 1925. [4]
On 27 January 1788 a chapel in Great Eastcheap (bearing over its entrance the words ‘Now it is allowable’) was opened with a sermon by James Hindmarsh; [1] Robert was the church secretary. On 1 June two priests, the elder Hindmarsh and Samuel Smith, another ex-Methodist preacher, were ordained [ 2 ] by twelve members, of whom Robert ...
It was built by the New Church Theological School on part of the Jared Sparks estate purchased in 1889 for the purpose of housing both a school and a Cambridge congregation of Swedenborgians. In 1965 a Parish House addition was constructed at the northeast corner of the chapel to designs by Cambridge architect Arthur H. Brooks, Jr.
New Church, 1826; 2nd edit. 1838, enlarged and remodelled, omitting personal controversy; in the 12th edit. 1893, were added indexes; French translation St. Amand, 1862. This work of apologetics originated in lectures at Norwich, in reply to the Anti-Swedenborg (1824) by George Beaumont , minister at Ebenezer Chapel (Independent Methodist ...
Bryn Athyn Cathedral. The General Church of the New Jerusalem (also referred to as the General Church, the General Convention of New Jerusalem, [3] or just simply the New Church) is an international church based in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, and based on the Old Testament, the New Testament, and the theological works of Emanuel Swedenborg (often called the Writings for the New Church or just ...
Wayfarers Chapel, or "The Glass Church" is a disassembled chapel designed by Lloyd Wright that was located in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. The chapel had unique organic architecture sited on a bluff above the Pacific Ocean .