{"product_id":"9780854481439","title":"Swedenborg's Secret: The Meaning and Significance of the Word of God, the Life of the Angels, and Service to God; A Biography","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSwedenborg’s Secret\u003c\/i\u003e is the first major study of the eighteenth-century Swedish philosopher and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772) to be published in English for over fifty years, being a translation of the critically acclaimed Swedish biography \u003ci\u003eSwedenborg’s Hemlighet\u003c\/i\u003e (1999). Beautifully designed and illustrated throughout with ten color plates and forty-four black-and-white pictures, \u003ci\u003eSwedenborg’s Secret\u003c\/i\u003e is an authoritative and full-length biography that is immensely readable.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Using a wealth of historical material, Lars Bergquist paints a vivid portrait of an ambitious and practical man who was one of the greatest figures of the Enlightenment, a polymath who was a poet, inventor, mathematician, mineralogist, anatomist, and cosmologist. Bergquist also reveals Swedenborg to be a “man of two worlds,” someone who not only played an active part in the political life of his nation but who was also a spiritual visionary, setting out a stunning vision of human destiny in works such as \u003ci\u003eHeaven and Hell \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eNew Jerusalem\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eSwedenborg’s Secret \u003c\/i\u003ereclaims Swedenborg from the margins of contemporary thought and places him where he belongs: as a founding figure of modern spirituality and Western philosophy.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The book also contains a chronology of Swedenborg’s life and contemporary events, an appendix listing the contents of Swedenborg’s personal library and other books he was known to have owned or read, a comprehensive bibliography, and a full index.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Swedenborg Foundation Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47018563600624,"sku":"9780854481439","price":44.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780854481439_p0.jpg?v=1763817562","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780854481439","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}