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New Jerusalem Church
noun
- the church composed of the followers of Swedenborg; the Swedenborgian church.
New Jerusalem Church
noun
- a sect founded in 1787, based on Swedenborgianism Often shortened toNew Church
Example Sentences
“I left the Baltimore area and came home and established a church. Really, my mother, Catherine, was the founder of the church, New Jerusalem Church of God in Christ Jesus on the North Road,” Carr said, referring to the church which has since relocated to the Cordova Road.
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.
Swedenborg made no attempt to found a sect; but after his death, his followers, in 1788, formed themselves into a society under the denomination of “The New Jerusalem Church.”
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.
As Dr. Lemuel C. Belding, the active projector of this enterprise, and several other gentlemen who have united their farms to form the domain, are members of the New Jerusalem church, it may be fairly presumed that the Leraysville Phalanx will be owned mostly by members of that religious connection; although other persons desirous of living in charity with their neighbors, will by no means be excluded, but on the contrary be freely admitted to the common privileges of membership.
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