Figuring Out the Church

Fr. Aidan Nichols writes on the Church’s four marks: one, holy, catholic, apostolic . . .

Figuring Out the Church
Fr. Aidan Nichols
Ignatius Press, 2013
200 pages, $17.95 paperback

The Church is a mystery. To enter more deeply into that mystery, believers reflect on the Church’s basic characteristics — what it means for the Church to be one, holy, catholic, and apostolic. Father Nichols, a Dominican theologian, explores these marks by drawing on insights from four theological masters.

The author helps his reader “figure out” the Church on at least a fundamental level by appealing to both the Scholastic tradition and authors influenced by the ressourcement movement in theology. He provides readers with a sense of Catholicism’s breadth, which is at once orthodox and yet generously conceived.

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