The book of Archpriest Alexander Sorokin “Christ and the Church in the New Testament. Introduction to the Holy Scriptures of the New Testament. A course of lectures" was published by the Krutitsky Metochion Publishing House together with the Synodal Department for Youth Affairs of the Moscow Patriarchate (with the blessing of the Chairman of the Department, Archbishop Alexander of Kostroma and Galich) and the Society of Church History Lovers. The book is a course of lectures on Introduction to the Holy Scriptures of the New Testament, read by the author since 1996 at the St. Petersburg Institute of Theology and Philosophy. The book details the history of the writing of the Holy Books of the New Testament - the Gospels, the Book of Acts, the Apostolic Epistles and the Apocalypse. The publication was dictated by the lack of systematic introductory manuals that would be compiled taking into account both the generally accepted achievements of modern biblical studies and, to no less extent, the Orthodox Church Tradition.