Celestial City

American  

noun

1. the goal of Christian's journey in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress; the heavenly Jerusalem.

2. New Jerusalem.

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Celestial City

In that book, the pilgrim extricates himself from the Slough of Despond—essentially a giant water hazard—and makes his way to the aptly named Celestial City.

From Golf Digest ● Dec. 17, 2018

But, unlike the stricken Christian, Van Dyk does not reach his Celestial City.

From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2017

Bunyan’s allegorical City of Destruction — and also, perhaps, the Celestial City that is its antithesis — is incarnated by modern Los Angeles.

From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2016

This motif, sounding like an ecstatic awakening, obsessed him: he used it in The Pilgrim's Progress to denote the Christian pilgrim arriving at his goal, the Celestial City.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 11, 2010

The other point to notice is the picture of Virtue under the image of a Celestial City, and here one cannot help wondering whether the irony has any element of personal reminiscence.

From The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire by T. R. (Terrot Reaveley) Glover

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