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The New Jerusalem is not limited to eschatology, however. Many Christians view the New Jerusalem as a current reality, that the New Jerusalem is the consummation of the Body of Christ, the Church and that Christians already take part in membership of both the heavenly Jerusalem and the earthly Church in a kind of dual citizenship. [19]
Bryn Athyn Cathedral. The General Church of the New Jerusalem (also referred to as the General Church, the General Convention of New Jerusalem, [3] or just simply the New Church) is an international church based in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, and based on the Old Testament, the New Testament, and the theological works of Emanuel Swedenborg (often called the Writings for the New Church or just ...
[26] Smith later envisioned the temple as being the starting point for the creation of a New Jerusalem: "Verily this is the word of the Lord, that the city New Jerusalem shall be built by the gathering of the saints, beginning at this place, even the place of the temple, which temple shall be reared in this generation."
[4] [5] Hierosolyma is a Hellenized pronunciation of a Hebrew word for Jerusalem. [6] In 1939, Rev. Pitcairn established a non-profit corporation for the purposes of promoting and maintaining the new church. [2] The events of the Second World War delayed formalization of the new Church's organization.
Ye Choirs of New Jerusalem! To sweet new strains attune your theme; The while we keep, from care releas'd, With sober joy our Paschal Feast: When Christ, Who spake the Dragon's doom, Rose, Victor-Lion, from the Tomb: That while with living voice He cries, The dead of other years might rise. Engorg'd in former years, their prey
New Church Education is a philosophy of education developed and practiced by the General Church of the New Jerusalem, a denomination of The New Church (Swedenborgian).This philosophy is based on some of works of Emanuel Swedenborg, whose theological writings are considered by members of this church to be the revealed Word of God, equal in authority to the Old Testament and the New Testament.
The ground plan of the New Jerusalem is shown to be a square (cf. Ezekiel 40:3), '12000 stadia in each direction' (verse 16), but the general form is actually a 'perfect cube', unlike any 'city ever imagined', but 'like the holy of holies' in Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem (1 Kings 6:20). The New Jerusalem has no temple (verse 22), because 'the ...
The Consummation of the Age; the Coming of the Lord; and the New Heaven and New Church, Chapter 14 in The True Christian Religion Containing the Universal Theology of The New Church Foretold by the Lord in Daniel 7; 13, 14; and in Revelation 21; 1, 2 (Swedenborg Foundation 1952). Henry Wansbrough. The New Jerusalem Bible (1990). Doubleday.