Swedenborg Explorer's Guidebook

Book excerpt: The works of Emanuel Swedenborg and commentary on those works together form a considerable body of material, but scholars have often found it difficult to access them. William Ross Woofenden has compiled The Swedenborg Explorer's Guidebook, a greatly expanded second edition ofhis Swedenborg Researcher Manual, which provides an annotated bibliography of works written by Swedenborg including his early scientific studies, government treatises, and literary productions, as well as his later theological writings and a careful selection of secondary literature. In addition, this research manual provides a glossary of Swedenborgian terminology and key concepts of Swedenborgtheological thought. A special feature is a list of worldwiderepositories of Swedenborgian material. William Ross Woofenden is a preeminent Swedenborgian scholar, whofounded and edits the journal Studia Swedenborgiana. He served as general editor of the Redesigned Standard Edition of the Works of Emanuel Swedenborg.