Born: Jan­u­a­ry 29, 1688, Stock­holm, Swe­den.

Died: March 29, 1772, Lon­don, Eng­land, of a stroke.

Buried: He was re-in­terred in the Upp­sa­la Ca­thed­ral, Swe­den, in 1908.

With an eclectic mind, Swe­den­borg wrote on ma­the­ma­tics, ge­ol­o­gy, chem­is­try, phys­ics, min­er­al­o­gy, as­tron­o­my and ana­to­my. He was one of the out­stand­ing sci­en­tists of his time, as well as be­ing a mem­ber of Sweden’s House of No­bles. How­ev­er, he de­vot­ed the last quar­ter cen­tu­ry of his life to the­ol­o­gy. His works form the ba­sis of the Swed­en­borg­i­an Church (some­times known as The Church of the New Je­ru­sa­lem). Though he ne­ver planned a church de­nom­in­a­tion, a so­ci­e­ty was formed in Lon­don in 1787, which event­u­al­ly gave rise to the Gen­er­al Con­ven­tion of Swe­den­borg­i­an Church­es.

Hymns

  1. In Boundless Mercy