The Swedenborg Project

"A 501(c)(3) independent Christian non-profit dedicated to sharing the teachings of the First and Second Advents of Jesus Christ"

• Home
• About Us
• Contact
• Donate
• Swedenborg Digital Library
• Who was Swedenborg?

Recent Posts

• New Church Now
• Jesus and Paul on the Eternity of Marriage 2
• Do angels fly?
• Market Driven Churches
• Kant and Swedenborg
• Questions: About angels, free will, the snake, “light fallen from heaven,” salvation, sons of God and…
• For Christmas
• The Future of the New Church. Swedenborg Colloquium
• “Chosen for Greatness!”
• The new Second Advent Christian video
• New online versions of Marguerite Beck Block’s “The New Church in the New World”
• The Second “Half?” of the book Marriage (“Conjugial”) Love
• “Emanuel” vs. “Swedenborg”
• “Thoughts on the (mis-)celebration of Christmas”
• “Everything ends. Including congregations”

Archives

• November 2011
• August 2011
• July 2011
• May 2011
• March 2011
• January 2011
• December 2010
• September 2010
• August 2010
• April 2010
• March 2010
• December 2009
• October 2009
• August 2009
• June 2009
• March 2009
• January 2009
• December 2008
• December 2007
• September 2007
• July 2007
• April 2007
• January 2007
• December 2006
• November 2006
• October 2006

Categories

• Issues
• News
• Theology
• Uncategorized

Recent Comments

• Knowing Jesus on Knowing Jesus, Loving Jesus
• Lou on The Life on Other Planets Question
• Kent Doering on “Jesus Was A Workplace Minister”
• Kent Doering on The Future of the New Church. Swedenborg Colloquium
• Paul on The Second “Half?” of the book Marriage (“Conjugial”) Love

Search

Support

The Bible

Books of the Second Coming

• The White Horse
• Arcana Coelestia
• Continuation Concerning the Last Judgment
• Divine Love and Wisdom
• Divine Providence
• Doctrine of the Sacred Scripture
• Earths in the Universe
• Heaven and Hell
• Married Love
• The New Jerusalem and its Heavenly Doctrine
• The Apocalypse Revealed
• The Doctrine of Faith
• The Doctrine of Life
• The Doctrine of the Lord
• The Interaction Between the Soul and the Body
• The Last Judgment
• The True Christian Religion

Links

• "Jesus was a Workplace Minister"
• A Few Little Keys to the Kingdom
• A Spiritual Bill of Rights
• About Second Advent Christianity
• Do We Need Church Organizations?
• Emanuel Swedenborg Studies
• Every Believer is a Priest
• How I Think of Immortality
• How to Become a Priest
• Knowing Jesus, Loving Jesus
• List of all Swedenborg’s works in chronological order
• Mr. Clapp's Dream
• One Christianity
• Second Advent Christianity
• Second Coming-related search engines
• Small Canon Search
• So Who Should Run the Church?
• So you’d like to… Be a Christian
• Subversive Virginity
• Swedenborg and Spiritualism and Spiritism
• Swedenborgian Legends
• The Books of Jesus Christ’s Second Coming
• The Ecclesia Experience
• The Emanuel Swedenborg Swicki
• The Kingdom of God is at Hand
• The Life on Other Planets Question
• The Swedenborg Digital Library
• The Translaborator Project
• The WikiWordOfGod Project – Big, Hairy, and Audacious
• When and Where was Jesus Born?
• Which books of Swedenborg’s are Divine revelation?
• Who is Jesus Christ?
• You are a Priest

Archive for June, 2009

So Who Should Run the Church?

Saturday, June 20th, 2009

An old question in church history, which could be dated back to the father-priest model of the Most Ancient Church, is the proper form of church government. In the organized New Church this discussion dates back to its first inception. For instance, “At the Fourth General Conference, in 1792, there was a sharp reaction against [...]

The Swedenborg Project is proudly powered by WordPress - Designed by RFDN
Entries (RSS) and Comments (RSS)

Terms of Service - Privacy Policy - Rules of Conduct