Edition in large print on a white background, easy-to-read layout, fully annotated to make it more legible. For e-book version: dynamic footnotes, dynamic table of contents (with numbers), active internal links. Emanuel Swedenborg was a noted Swedish Christian theologian and mystic. He wrote in 1758, De Caelo et Eius Mirabilibus et de inferno, ex Auditis et Visis. The common title in English is Heaven and Hell, but the full title is Heaven and its Wonders and Hell From Things Heard and Seen. This major book gives a detailed description of the afterlife; how people live after the death of the physical body. It deals with God, heaven, hell, angels, spirits, and devils. In the two and a half centuries since Swedenborg's death, various interpretations of his theology have been made, and his books are still worth reading. To a spiritual seeker who is not willing to settle for merely routine, run-of-the-mill church teachings, Emanuel Swedenborg's brilliant writings are highly recommended.

This is the first comprehensive study of St John's Gospel for nearly forty years. The author provides new and coherent answers to its two most important questions: the position of the Gospel in the history of Christian thought, and its central or governing idea. In the course of the book, helooks at the Gospel from a variety of viewpoints: historical, literary, and theological. The discussion is balanced and comprehensive and brings into play questions of origins, content, and readership. Detailed exegetical arguments that advance scholarly debate, and intricate questions ofspecialized concern, are for the most part dealt with conveniently in five major excursuses. All non-English sources are translated.

Jaroslav Pelikan begins this volume with the crisis of orthodoxy that confronted all Christian denominations by the beginning of the eighteenth century and continues through the twentieth century in its particular concerns with ecumenism. The modern period in the history of Christian doctrine, Pelikan demonstrates, may be defined as the time when doctrines that had been assumed more than debated for most of Christian history were themselves called into question: the idea of revelation, the uniqueness of Christ, the authority of Scripture, the expectation of life after death, even the very transcendence of God. "Knowledge of the immense intellectual effort invested in the construction of the edifice of Christian doctrine by the best minds of each successive generation is worth having. And there can hardly be a more lucid, readable and genial guide to it than this marvellous work."—Economist "This volume, like the series which it brings to a triumphant conclusion, may be unreservedly recommended as the best one-stop introduction currently available to its subject."—Alister E. McGrath, Times Higher Education Supplement "Professor Pelikan's series marks a significant departure, and in him we have at last a master teacher."—Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle, Commonweal "Pelikan's book marks not only the end of a dazzling scholarly effort but the end of an era as well. There is reason to suppose that nothing quite like it will be tried again."—Harvey Cox, Washington Post Book World

First published in 1986. This volume brings together five lectures which were originally delivered at different sessions of the famous Eranos Conferences in Ascona, Switzer□land. Henry Corbin himself had outlined the plan for this book, whose title suggests that these diverse studies converge on a common spiritual centre.