Includes bibliographical references and index.

Swedenborg's secrets of heaven -- A key to the secrets : Swedenborg's doctrine of correspondences -- The structure of secrets of heaven -- Method, history, and doctrine -- The method of biblical exegesis -- History and the styles of the word -- Teachings about charity and faith -- Biblical exegesis -- Genesis on the development of churches -- Genesis on the Lord's inner development -- Exodus on the spiritual church -- Accounts of memorable occurrences -- Heaven, hell, and their inhabitants -- The universal human constituted of angelic communities -- Hells and the process of spiritual devastation -- Oetinger, Kant, and the early reception of secrets of heaven -- The early reception of secrets of heaven -- Friedrich Christoph Oetinger -- Oetinger's first acquaintance with Swedenborg -- Swedenborgs and others earthly and heavenly philosophy -- From qualified acceptance to unqualified rejection -- Swedenborg in Oetinger's last works -- Immanuel Kant -- The Knobloch letter and the Herder fragments -- Dreams of a spirit seer -- Early reviews -- The later lectures on metaphysics -- What was at stake? -- Some later readers of secrets of heaven.