{"id":571,"date":"2017-07-01T20:18:31","date_gmt":"2017-07-01T20:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/?p=571"},"modified":"2017-07-01T20:18:31","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T20:18:31","slug":"mining-swedenborg-birrell-walsh-phd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/mining-swedenborg-birrell-walsh-phd\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Mining Swedenborg&#8221; &#8211; Birrell Walsh, PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-572 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/mine-492412_960_720-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"374\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/mine-492412_960_720-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/mine-492412_960_720-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/mine-492412_960_720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 374px) 100vw, 374px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In this article, Birrell Walsh, PhD, a religious scholar who recently discovered the writings of Emanuel Swedenborg, reflects on the experience of engaging the Swedish mystic&#8217;s prolific work, and how it resembles, in many ways, the act of mining, which Swedenborg himself was very familiar with.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click below for a PDF version of the article:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/MiningSwedenborg-1.pdf\">Mining Swedenborg <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-574 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Birrell-1-277x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"137\" height=\"149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Birrell-1-277x300.jpg 277w, https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Birrell-1.jpg 633w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 137px) 100vw, 137px\" \/>Birrel Walsh, PhD is a writer and scholar of comparative religion. He has written several novels, as well as poetry and the book &#8220;Praying for Others&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Birrell recently became involved in the Swedenborgian community at Hillside, an Urban Sanctuary, in El Cerrito, California, where he lives with his wife Nancy.<\/p>\n<p>To explore more of his work, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/btwreviews.com\/\">http:\/\/btwreviews.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; In this article, Birrell Walsh, PhD, a religious scholar who recently discovered the writings of Emanuel Swedenborg, reflects on the experience of engaging the Swedish mystic&#8217;s prolific work, and how it resembles, in many ways, the act of mining, which Swedenborg himself was very familiar with. &nbsp; Click below for a PDF version of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/mining-swedenborg-birrell-walsh-phd\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Mining Swedenborg&#8221; &#8211; Birrell Walsh, PhD<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":575,"href":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions\/575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}