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New Jerusalem Church

American  

noun

  1. the church composed of the followers of Swedenborg; the Swedenborgian church.


New Jerusalem Church British  

noun

  1. Often shortened to: New Church.  a sect founded in 1787, based on Swedenborgianism

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Edward MacKenzie Jr. is the former director of operations at the Boston Society of the New Jerusalem Church, whose members belong to the Swedenborgian denomination.

From Washington Times Oct. 21, 2014

At Cincinnati he soon found many congenial spirits, among the first of whom was Daniel Roe, minister of the "New Jerusalem Church," a society of the followers of Swedenborg.

From History of American Socialisms by Noyes, John Humphrey

The Croft Street Chapel, or New Jerusalem Church, is both structurally and intellectually, the most recent developement of Nonconformity in Horncastle. 

From A History of Horncastle from the earliest period to the present time by Walter, James Conway

New Jerusalem Church, a church consisting of the disciples of Emanuel Swedenborg, formed into a separate organisation for worship about 1788.

From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin

The Church of England might well take a lesson from the Quakers or from the New Jerusalem Church, a religious community founded on the writings of that great mystic, Emanuel Swedenborg.

From Modern marriage and how to bear it by Braby, Maud Churton

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