num_pages: 200
description: The Church is a mystery. Believers who want to enter more deeply into that mystery will reflect on the Church's basic characteristics the marks of the Church: what it means for the Church to be one holy catholic and apostolic. Non-Catholics and nonbelievers looking to appreciate how Catholics regard the Church also will desire to understand these marks. In this book renowned Dominican theologian Fr. Aidan Nichols explores the Church's characteristics. Drawing on insights from four theological masters-Henri de Lubac Jean Tillard Hans Urs von Balthasar and Charles Journet-Nichols seeks to help Catholics and non-Catholics to figure out the Church on at least a fundamental level. The four masters in question do not claim to exhaust the mystery of the Church nor does Nichols. They do however assist the reader in going deeper into the mystery. To accomplish this goal Nichols appeals to both the Scholastic tradition and authors influenced by the ressourcement movement in theology. In this way he provides readers with a sense of Catholicism's breadth which is at once orthodox and yet generously conceived. 
language: English
title: Figuring out the Church: Her Marks, and Her Masters
publisher: Ignatius Press