Most people who cite Swedenborg’s writings use what is currently known as the Standard Edition, the English translation produced in the early 1900s. In the 1990s, these translations were electronically input in order to create a new typeset version, and at the same time some of the language was updated and clarified by the project editor, William Ross Woofenden. These volumes are known as the Redesigned Standard Edition.
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Indented titles in the list below are components of the larger volumes that can be downloaded separately.
Miscellaneous Theological Works
- New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine
- A Brief Exposition of the Doctrine of the New Church
- Interaction of the Soul and Body
- The White Horse (including: Appendix to the Treatise on the White Horse)
- Earths in the Universe
- Last Judgement
- Continuation on Last Judgment / Continuation on the Spiritual World
Apocalypse Explained, volume 1
Apocalypse Explained, volume 2
Apocalypse Explained, volume 3
Apocalypse Explained, volume 4
Apocalypse Explained, volume 5
Apocalypse Explained, volume 6 (including the three works listed separately below)
- Divine Love and Divine Wisdom
- The Athanasian Creed
- Concerning the Lord and Concerning the Holy Spirit
True Christian Religion, volume 1
True Christian Religion, volume 2
Posthumous Theological Works, volume 1
- Autobiographical Letters of Emanuel Swedenborg
- Sketch of the Coronis, or Appendix, to True Christian Religion
- Coronis or Appendix to True Christian Religion
- Consummation of the Age, the Lord’s Second Coming, and the New Church
- Invitation to the New Church
- Additions to True Christian Religion
- Canons of the New Church
- Charity
- Sketch of Ecclesiastical History of the New Church
- Concerning the Sacred Scripture or the Word of the Lord from Experience [De Verbo]
- Last Judgment (Posthumous)
- Argument Concerning the Judgment
Posthumous Theological Works, volume 2
- Summaries of the Internal Sense of the Prophetical Books, the Psalms, and Historical Parts of the Word
- Scripture Confirmations of the New Church Doctrine [Dicta Probantia]
- Precepts of the Decalogue
- Marriage [De Conjugio]
- Indexes to the “Missing Treatise” Angelic Wisdom concerning Marriage
- Collected Minor Works (including: “Five Memorable Relations,” “Conversations with Angels,” “Justification and Good Works,” “A Conversation with Calvin and Fifty of His Followers Concerning the Athanasian Creed,” “God the Savior,” “Jesus Christ,” “Specimen and Sketch of the Doctrine of the New Church in Summary,” “Theological Extracts from Swedenborg’s Correspondence,” and “Gad and Asher”)