5 Tool Doctrines of New Christian Thought

There is a correspondence... a co-responding... between the spiritual and natural worlds.

What is spiritual order? What's disorderly? How can we know?

There's an order that runs throughout Creation. There's a physical order, and a spiritual order, too, and they both stem from God.

There are three discrete degrees of the human mind, and of heaven.

Forms... Forms? This is a concept that states the need for intentions, loves, and ideas to be grounded out in things and actions. The road to hell is only paved with good intentions if they never get formed into useful actions.

The Lord's love and wisdom flow through all creation. This spiritual inflowing, or influx, keeps us alive in mind and body.

Here we are in the 21st century. We know that the universe is an enormous place. We're bursting with scientific knowledge. But how are we doing with the even-bigger ideas?

Rationality is the ability of the intellect to understand what is true and good (and the opposite, what is false and evil).

"Endowed by their Creator" - in New Christian thought, with two capabilities: spiritual freedom, and rationality.

What happened with the birth, life, ministry, death, and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth? Was he the Messiah, the Christ, whose coming was prophesied many times in the Old Testament?

As human beings, we get stuck all the time in conflicts between what we want and what we know. We want to eat that extra piece of pie, but we know over-eating is bad for us.....

What is doctrine?

Who was Emanuel Swedenborg, and why are his theological works so important?

The Bible. Should we take it literally? Should we take it figuratively? Should we take it with a grain of salt, since it was written so long ago? And where does Swedenborg’s approach fit into the present picture?