[FNCA History]
[Lecture Themes]
Past Lecture Themes
Before the mid-1970s there was a single theme for the entire session. In 1976 or 1977, it was decided to have a separate theme for each week: one a book of the Bible, one a doctrinal theme or a book of Swedenborg's, and the third a "wild card". In 1982, when the camp session was shortened to two weeks again, there was a single theme again for the entire session. The following year, however, it was decided to go back to having a different theme each week. Shortly after that, it was decided that the theme should be Biblical one week and doctrinal the other week. And we've been (mostly) doing it that way ever since.
NEW items added/edited in recent months:
Year Posted
2023 8/5
1926 8/5
1935 8/7
1966 8/7
1942-1945 8/7
© Trevor 2012Week 1: I'm in the Bible and the Bible is in Me
Week 2: Finding Holiness in the Word, Now and Every Day
Week 1: The Second Coming: Who, What, When, Where,
Why, and How
Week 2: Angels, Visions, and Dreams in the Bible
Week 1: The Tabernacle
Week 2: The Three Essentials of the Church: the Divinity
of the Lord, the Holiness of the Word, and the
Life of Charity
2019
Week 1: From the Ten Commandments to the Sermon on
the Mount: Biblical Foundations for Spiritual
Development
Week 2: Spiritual Community Seen through the Lens of
the Universal Human
2018
Week 1: Altruism and Kindness
Week 1: Spiritual Journeys in the Bible
2017
Week 1: Where It All Began: The Book of Genesis
Week 2: The Connection Between the Natural and Spiritual
Worlds
2016
Week 1: Uses
Week 2: The Teachings of Jesus
2015
Week 1: The Doctrine of Life
Week 2: Mothers in the Bible
2014
Week 1: Divine Providence
Week 2: The Promised Land
2013
Week 1: Is God a Verb?
Week 2: Favorite Old and New Testament Stories and Why
They Move Us.
2012
Week 1: Memorable Relations and How They Speak to
Daily Life
Week 2: Descent of the Holy City
2011
Week 1: Biblical Parallels: Correspondences Between Old
and New Testament Stories
Week 2: Life as a Preparation for Forever
2010
Week 1: Heavenly Community
Week 2: The Minor Prophets
2009
Week 1: 40 days and 40 years: What's the Significance of
40 in the Word?
Week 2: Practice, Practice, Practice... the Path of Spiritual
Growth through Daily Life
2008
Week 1: A Book About Us
Week 2: Being New Church in a New World
2007
Week 1: The History of New Church Doctrine
Week 2: The Psalms: Biblical Poetry and Song
2006
Week 1: The Conjugial Principle
Week 2: Relationships in the Bible: Friends & Lovers &
More
2005
Week 1: Families in the Bible
Week 2: The Doctrine of Charity
2004
Week 1: Geographical Correspondences
Week 2: The Journey of Regeneration
2003
Week 1: The Gospels: The Written Word on the Living
Word
Week 2: Inside Looking Out: Comparing New and Old
Church Theology
2002
Week 1: Responding to 9/11
Week 2: Wars in the Bible
2001
Week 1: FNCA: What’s the Use?
Week 2: Bad Guys in the Bible
2000
Week 1: Biblical Covenants Old and New
Week 2: Proprium and the Life of Faith
1999
Week 1: Holy Diastase
Week 2: The Doctrine of the Lord
1998
Week 1: The Second Coming
Week 2: Samson and Delilah
1997
Week 1: Tabernacle and Temple
Week 2: The Laws of Divine Providence
1996
Week 1: Prayer and Ritual
Week 2: Prophets
1995
Week 1: The Story of Exodus
Week 2: The Problem of Evil
1994
Week 1: The Family in Swedenborgian Doctrine
Week 2: Biblical Parables
1993
Week 1: Education in our Theology
Week 2: Creation Throughout the Bible
1992
Week 1: Heaven and Hell
Week 2: The Kingdom
1991
Week 1: The Story of David
Week 2: Growth Through Service
1990
Week 1: Nuts & Bolts of Regeneration
Week 2: Who is the Lord?
1989
Week 1: World Unity
subtheme: Earths in the Universe
Week 2: The Nature and Forms of Revelation
subtheme: the Book of Revelation
1988
Week 1: The Holy City
subtheme: Science, Spirtuality, and Swedenborg
Week 2: Swedenborg's Contributions
subtheme: Levels of Meaning in Scripture
1987
Week 1: Eternal Life Has Already Started
Week 2: Favorite Bible Passages
1986
Week 1: The Divine Human
Week 2: Dreams
1985
Week 1: Life Tapestry / Life of Swedenborg / Book of
Daniel
Week 2: Nature and Spirit / Worship
1984
Week 1: Saul, David, and Solomon
Week 2: Health & Healing
1983
Week 1: Parables of the Old and New Testaments
Week 2: Rites and Sacraments
1982
Weeks 1 & 2: The Ten Commandments
1981
Week 1: The Book of Revelation
Week 2: The Books of "The Word" vs. the "Non-Canonical"
Books, and the Value of Each for the Church
Week 3: Creation, Regeneration, and the Lord's Life and
Glorification
subtheme all 3 weeks: Contemporary Moral Issues
1980
Week 1: The Life of the Lord
Week 2: Back to Basics
Week 3: The Minor Prophets
1979
Week 1: The Book of Jonah
Week 2: The Laws of Divine Providence
Week 3: Temptation
1978
Week 1: The Grand Man
Week 2: The New Church Concept of Marriage
Week 3: The Book of Isaiah
1977
Week 1: The Book of Revelation
Week 2: Human Freedom
Week 3: Basic Correspondences
1976
A. The Spritual Significance of the Gospel Differences
B. Individual/Family Mores as they Challenge our New Church Understanding of the Doctrines
1975
The Life of the Lord Little Known
1974
Issues Facing the Church
subtheme: The World of Spirits
1973
New Church Thought in Contemporary Terms
1972
Favorite Passages from the Writings
1971
Swedenborg's Life and Thought
1970
A Useful Life
1969
The Grand Man
1965
The Structure of New Church Doctrine
1962
The Mission of the New Church
1961
New Church and What It Is
1959
New Church Teachings as Guidepost for Daily Living
...
1956
Power from the Lord, Especially Through His Word
1955
The Place of the New Church Today Among Other Churches
[Ed. Note: not 100% sure this is correct]
1954
Christ, the Hope of the World
1952
Divine Providence
[Ed. Note: not 100% sure this is correct]
1951
The Divine Providence Over the World
The Book of Revelation
1950
1st lecture: The New Church and Our Responsibility to It
2nd lecture: The Word
1949
The General Convention: How Can We Strengthen It?
1942-1945
No session during WWII
1935
Music of the Church --- a series of 9 lectures by Rev. Horace B. Blackmer intersperced between lectures on other topics.
1934
The New Church in the Modern World
1933
What the New Church Teaches (II)
1932
What the New Church Teaches
1930
Love to the Neighbor
1929
The Bible and Modern Life
1928
The Church and the Modern World
1927
A New Church for a New Age
1926
Church History, Bible Geography, Psychology, Psychical Phenomona and Revelation, Psychology of Teaching
Ed. Note: This latter theme was a big focus of the session, with official training sessions for New Church Sunday School teachers. Many Sunday School teachers from all across the country attended the session specifically to take these trainings.
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1922
The Spiritual World and the Life After Death Revealed
1921
The Doctrines of the New Church
The Christian Value of the Psalms
The History of the New Church
© Ian Woofenden 2011