Below are links to doctrinal statements found in the Handbook of The Lord's New Church Which Is Nova Hierosolyma.

These doctrinal statements help explain the beginning history of The Lord's New Church Which Is Nova Hierosolyma and what its founders saw to be true.

Below are the titles of the doctrinal statements in the Handbook of the Lord's New Church Which is Nova Hierosolyma.  

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            → Leading Theses Propounded In "De Hemelsche Leer"
                      • The Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg are the Third Testament
                         of the Word of the Lord...

            → Summary of the Development of the Principles of the Church
                in the Meetings of the Provisional International Council of Priests
                July 25th to August 2nd 1949
                      • The way in which the Church must go for its development...

            → The Formation of the Church  
                      • Seven States in the Formation of the Church within each person...

                        1. The presence of the Lord through the perception of His
                            Divine in the Word, and the acknowledgment of His
                            Omnipotence, Omniscience and Omnipresence...........

            → Essentials of the Church  
                      • The acknowledgment of the Lord Jesus Christ in His Divine Human
                         as the one only God of Heaven and Earth,
                         in Whom is the Divine Trinity...
 
            → Principles of Doctrine and of Order
                      • The circle of life...

                         In this it is seen that in that Internal Church which is to
                         come into existence for the sake of the salvation of the
                         human race, there is a circle of life and light from the Lord,
                         a circle of Spirit and of Life which the Word in itself is, and
                         into which the Church must come....
 
            → Freedom in the Church
                      • Human freedom is necessary if men are to be led in freedom
                         according to reason by the Lord into the life in the Lord
                         which is freedom itself....
 
            → The Principles of Doctrine
                      • It is not the Word that makes the Church,
                         but the understanding of it...


Doctrinal Papers of Historical Significances....

            → Address to the Assembly - by Mr. H.D.G. Groeneveld
                      • This address was delivered at the first international
                         assembly of the Lord's New Church Which Is
                         Nova Hierosolyma in 1947...
 
                      • "In the meetings we had, we were truly assembled, if in our
                           midst was the Word of the Lord, the Third Testament..."

            → Diagrams Illustrating the Influx of the Lord in the Churches -
                by Mr. H.D.G. Groeneveld
                      • This doctrinal class was delivered in Bryn Athyn in 1955.
                         This document contains the last three pages of his 
                         nine page presentation...  >Copy of Original 9 pages (3.5MB)...

            → On The Reading Of The Word - by Rt. Rev. Philip N. Odhner
                      • "The One Man Principle" is described in this short doctrinal
                          paper in 1970...
 
                      • "Sixth: He must acknowledge that in the internal sense
                           of the Word, one man is being treated of..."