Rooted in Spirit: A Harvesting Women's Wisdom

What does Emanuel Swedenborg, an eighteenth-century mystic, offer that is relevant to understanding women's spirituality today? Twenty-five contributors to Rooted in Spirit explore the impact of Swedenborg's insights on their lives. This anthology of original essays, poetry, journal writing, and short stories introduces women whose lives are "rooted in spirit." Some of the writers were raised in Swedenborgian churches; others have chosen in their adulthood the philosophy of Emanuel Swedenborg as the ethical basis for their lives. These women of diverse ages, backgrounds, races, and occupations, writing from the heart of their experience, find inspiration in a Swedenborgian understanding of the life process.