Summary:

Emanuel Swedenborg's Invitation to the New Church was not a published work but a draft in Latin that was begun sometime in the 1760s but left unfinished at his death and found among his papers. The concept of the "New Church" was introduced and explored at length in Swedenborg's long book The True Christian Religion: Containing the Universal Theology of the New Church, published in Latin in Amsterdam in 1771. The Invitation is a summary of some of the salient teachings set out in the work he saw published.