Introduction to the Mystery of the Church is an ecclesiological survey presenting a doctrinal synthesis of the Church. The author's intention is to propose an overview of this mystery in connection with the entiretyof the Christian mystery. The book is divided into two major parts, the first presenting the foundations in the Bible and the tradition up to our day, and the second being an explanatory proposal introducing the reader to the Church's definition and personality and concluding with an exposition of the four properties enunciated in the Creed (one, holy, catholic, and apostolic).

BENOIT-DOMINIQUE DE LA SOUJEOLE, OP is a Dominican of the Province of Toulouse, France. Professor of dogmatic theology at the Faculty of Theology of the University of Fribourg (Switzerland), and member of the editorial board of La Revue thomiste, he has taught on the Church over the last twenty years.