Servetus, Swedenborg And the Nature of God

The Trinity was defined at the Council of Nicaea and the relationship of the human and divine natures of Christ was defined at Chalcedon. Very few questioned the Church’s depictions of the nature of God. Two such mavericks, Michael Servetus (1509-1553) and Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772), in spite of their Christian educations, rejected the Church’s creedal understanding of God and the Trinity.

Andrew M.T. Dibb is Associate Professor of Theology at the Academy of the New Church Theological School. Professor Dibb holds an M.Div. from the Academy of the New Church Theological School and a doctorate in Church History from the University of South Africa, Pretoria.