SYMHC Classics: Who was Emanuel Swedenborg?

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🗓️ 27 January 2018

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Today we're visiting an episode from past hosts Katie and Sarah. When the philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg sought mechanical explanations for nature, he found himself struggling with his faith as he searched for evidence of the human soul.

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0:33.3	Hey, happy Saturday listeners.
0:35.4	January 29th, 2018 is going to be the 330th anniversary of the birth of a manual Swedenborg.
0:41.7	So we thought we'd revisit the episode on him from our archive.
0:45.7	So there are some challenges that can come along with trying to do a podcast
0:49.2	about a person who either established a religion that people still follow today,
0:53.4	or whose work informed and influenced a religion that people still follow today.
0:58.4	And Katie and Sarah worked with these challenges by inviting a guest onto the show.
1:03.8	So at the end, there are some clips from an interview they conducted with Lisa Oz,
1:08.2	who was raised as the Swedenborgian.
1:10.6	Past host Katie and Sarah released this episode in 2010,
1:14.6	and they make reference to their Medici Super Series.
1:17.4	And we're going to link to that series, which includes other Medici-related topics as well,
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