Swedenborg Scientific Association

Publishers of The New Philosophy Journal

Article Type: Report

Book Expo: New Church Associated Publishers

On April 11, 2015 Bryn Athyn College hosted, in its beautiful facilities, an open-to-the-public Book Expo to celebrate and explore science, spirituality, and Swedenborgian thought in general. Hundreds of books on a great variety of topics were available, and speakers were engaging attendees throughout the day. Via books and talks, topics included spirituality weaving through ancient history, the sciences, philosophy, medicine, naturalism, abolition of slavery, child labor rights, new spiritual paradigms, envisioning the afterlife, and Swedenborg’s scientific and theological works.

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Transactions of One Hundred and Sixteenth Annual Meeting 2013

This year’s Annual Meeting, held on September 21, 2013, consisted of aday of meetings to consider in depth the state of the association, itsmission and accomplishment in relation to it, and to develop plans to meetthe challenges of falling membership and the failure to engage the newgeneration. President Bell drew attention to the fact of the continuingfulfillment of the association’s charter purpose to keep the pre-theologicalworks in print and to promote ideas in them. He also addressed the realityof the failure to attract younger generations as members that we and otherinstitutions now face, and said we must find ways to remedy this.

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