About the Author

James F. Lawrence teaches in historical and cultural studies of religion at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. His research areas include new religious movements, Christian spirituality, and Swedenborgian studies. His recent publications include “An Extraordinary Season in Prayer: Warren Felt Evans’s Journey into ‘Scientific’ Swedenborgian Spiritual Practice,” in Studia Swedenborgiana 12:3 (2002); “Swedenborgian Spirituality,” in The New Westminster Dictionary of Christian Spirituality (2005); “Telling the Old, Old Story Anew: George Dole’s Developmentalist Reading of the Bible,” in Principles in Play: Essays in Honor of George Dole’s Contributions to Swedenborgian Thought (2012); and “Correspondentia: A Neologism in Aquinas Attains Its Zenith in Swedenborg,” in Correspondences: Journal for the Study of Esotericism 5 (2017).