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The seven angels representing early Christian communities in “The Book of Revelation”: Thyatira, Sardis, Pergamos, Smyrna, Ephesus, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.
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ZOOM: thursday, november 12, 6 PM: 
Swedenborg and Politics: On the Communitywith Dell Rose

Swedenborg’s teachings have great importance for the political imagination, and this talk helps us to understand why. Dell Rose will discuss the teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg and the development of 19th-century political philosophy, especially that of the Victorian thinker T. H. Green (1836-1882):“Both reach one thesis: that the person is realized in a community of persons, through a freedom that consists in the rational identification of the self with its true good, a freedom distinct from unconstrained choice.The comparison is typological and not genealogical. It treats two systems built from different materials, one of philosophical argument and one of revelation, as two answers to a single problem, and it lets each clarify what the other leaves obscure.” –Dell Rose﻿
This talk is based on the first essay in Dell Rose’s forthcomingbook, On the Community: (Re)Imaging Politics in the New Christian Tradition. ﻿
Thomas Hill Green (7 April 1836 – 15March 1882), known as T. H. Green,was an English philosopher, political radical and temperance reformer, and a member of the British idealism movement. Green was influenced by the metaphysical historicism of G. W. F.Hegel. He was one of the thinkers behind the philosophy of social liberalism.