Summary Exposition

This work contains a summary of the doctrines of the Catholic and Protesant churches, and amazingly, from an analysis of the decrees from the Council of Trent and the the propositions of the Formula of Concord of the Protestants, Swedenborg shows how the the basic underlying theology of these two branches of Christianity are the same. The main theological errors that have crept into Christian theology over the centuries are next discussed, which can be summarized as a belief in a Trinity of three persons, and that salvation comes from faith alone. The author next discussed the theology of the New Church, based upon visions he received over a period of 25 years. This work is from volume 22 of "The Divine Revelation of the New Jerusalem," a multi-volume work containing all the published theological works of Emanuel Swedenborg where all of the references and indexes are hyperlinked for ease of study.