I felt I had to find the world, so I broke with the church intellectually when I was at college.”Īll the same, shades of her faith remain very intact in her. It’s also quite conservative, at least it was when I grew up, and rigorous. “It’s very intellectual, it takes a lot of study to understand it. Gyllenhaal grew up in a close-knit family with five siblings, in a community completely steeped in Swedenborgian beliefs. She looks Scandinavian too, with her blond hair and delicate features. “The culture of Bryn Athyn has very Scandinavian overtones, and of course the name helps.” “I always felt that I was Swedish,” she continues. A town that is not only something of a seat for the Gyllenhaal family, but also the Episcopal seat of the General Church of the New Jerusalem, a church based on the works of Swedish theologian Emanuel Swedenborg. The town she’s referring to is Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania. But my values, all my values, go straight back to that town.” I don’t think one explanation is going to cover it all. “Today I believe in everything, I believe in nature, I believe in things we cannot comprehend. “I think we all have something deeply embedded in us that keeps us going,” Liza Gyllenhaal says over coffee at Bryant Park in New York.
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