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The City Without A Church

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I Saw the City - His Servants Shall Serve - I Saw No Temple There - Contents

a Church as his ideal of the heavenly life.

By far the most original thing here is the simple conception of Heaven as a City. The idea of religion without a Church --- "I saw no Temple therein" --- is anomalous enough: but the association of the blessed life with a City --- the one place in the world from which Heaven seems most far away --- is something wholly new in religious thought. No other religion which has a Heaven ever had a Heaven like this. The Greek, if he looked forward at all, awaited the Elysian Fields: the Eastern sought Nirvana. All other Heavens have been Gardens, Dream lands --- passivities more or less aimless. Even to the majority among ourselves Heaven is a siesta and not a City. It remained for John to go straight to the other extreme

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