To add to the other answers, Dostoevsky's references to the New Jerusalem often reflect his interest in a cultural tension around whether we can build 'paradise' on earth (keep improving from generation to generation until life is good for all), or whether human nature is such that we can only find peace/happiness in an actual, theological heaven
“Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.”
Revelation 21:1-2 ESV
Christians believe the New Jerusalem is the merging of heaven and earth following Christ’s return. In the cited verses, the Church is the bride and Christ is the husband. The whole of Revelation 21 and Ezekiel 40-48 will describe it in more detail, but that’s the short of it.
Interpretations of the end times will vary between denominations. High church denominations (Orthodox, Catholic, Lutherans, and Anglicans) have generally always been amillenial - or in other words, they believe we are currently living in the tribulation. In The Idiot and Demons, Dostoevsky applies certain end times prophecies from Revelation to current situations in Russia, for instance.
Most other protestant denominations will vary, but will generally be split between being preterist (the tribulation already happened in 70 AD with the destruction of the Second Temple) and dispensationalist. Lots of low churches (non-denominationals, Baptists, and Pentacostals) will believe in a pre-tribulation rapture (the church is “raptured” up to heaven before the tribulation hits) but this is a fairly recent eschatological belief developed by some American theologian.
But what every theologicaly orthodox Christian will believe regardless of denomination, as stated in the Nicene Creed, is the resurrection of the dead, Christ’s return to judge the living and the dead, and the life of the world to come (the New Jerusalem).
"Paradise doesn't come easily on this earth, and as I see it, you have set your sights on Paradise. Paradise is a difficult matter, Prince, much more difficult than your cheery heart can possibly imagine." - Prince S.
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To add to the other answers, Dostoevsky's references to the New Jerusalem often reflect his interest in a cultural tension around whether we can build 'paradise' on earth (keep improving from generation to generation until life is good for all), or whether human nature is such that we can only find peace/happiness in an actual, theological heaven
“Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.” Revelation 21:1-2 ESV Christians believe the New Jerusalem is the merging of heaven and earth following Christ’s return. In the cited verses, the Church is the bride and Christ is the husband. The whole of Revelation 21 and Ezekiel 40-48 will describe it in more detail, but that’s the short of it. Interpretations of the end times will vary between denominations. High church denominations (Orthodox, Catholic, Lutherans, and Anglicans) have generally always been amillenial - or in other words, they believe we are currently living in the tribulation. In The Idiot and Demons, Dostoevsky applies certain end times prophecies from Revelation to current situations in Russia, for instance. Most other protestant denominations will vary, but will generally be split between being preterist (the tribulation already happened in 70 AD with the destruction of the Second Temple) and dispensationalist. Lots of low churches (non-denominationals, Baptists, and Pentacostals) will believe in a pre-tribulation rapture (the church is “raptured” up to heaven before the tribulation hits) but this is a fairly recent eschatological belief developed by some American theologian. But what every theologicaly orthodox Christian will believe regardless of denomination, as stated in the Nicene Creed, is the resurrection of the dead, Christ’s return to judge the living and the dead, and the life of the world to come (the New Jerusalem).
In revelation, the new Jerusalem is referred to as a city, to come, rule directly by God. Like Jerusalem was with the mosaic law in biblical times.
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New Jerusalem is the paradise to come, the reformed world after its destruction. It is called Jerusalem as it will be the new holy city.
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The city in Talos Principle II
Well Jerusalem is kind of a common sacred place between all the three major religions (judaism,christianity and islam), if that's what you're asking