THE INTERACTION OF SOUL AND BODY : De Commercio Animae et Corporis

Description

Dual language edition with newly edited Latin text of De Commercio Animae et Corporis (1769) and a facing page English translation, Regarding the Interaction of Soul and Body. Edited and translated by John Elliott with his Preface and an Introduction by Paul Vickers.

The Interaction of the Soul and the Body

Mankind has always sought to understand how ideas can be gained by the mind through the body’s experience, and how the soul enters the mind. Written in response to Descartes and Christian Wolff, Swedenborg outlines his own views on this subject and how they differ from the philosophical ideas of his day. Translation revised by John Chadwick.

Format: Paperback
Pages: 50
Publisher: The Swedenborg Society
Dimensions: 190 x 225 mm
Language: English
Place of publication: London, UK
Date of publication: 2005

ISBN: 0-85448129-x

£6.00

Author bio

JOHN ELLIOTT, a graduate of the University of London in Medieval and Modern History, has been an ordained minister of the General Conference of the New Church (Swedenborgian) for 56 years. Since joining the Swedenborg Society’s Advisory and Revision Board in 1955, he has worked as masterful editor and translator of Swedenborg’s religious works.  He edited volumes 6-8 of the third Latin edition of Arcana Coelestia, before going on to translate all eight Latin volumes (twelve in English translation) of that magnum opus. After the publication in 1999 of the final volume of this translation, John was honoured for his work by the King of Sweden, who made him a member of the Royal Order of the Polar Star.  Since then he has transcribed and edited Swedenborg’s own indexes of Arcana Coelestia, and he has also edited the five small Latin works that were published by Swedenborg in 1758.