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Devotees of suspense novels read for the sheer pleasure of the intellectual engagement -- not so much with big ideas, but with the conspiratorial mind. Brown took a big risk in this novel, betting his narrative on a conspiracy involving virtually everyone even remotely connected with Christianity throughout the last 2,000 years. The forces arrayed in this conspiracy include the Knights Templar, the Masons, the Roman Catholic Church, Interpol, and a secret society known as the Priory of Sion, which is claimed to have included as Grand Masters no less than Sandro Boticelli, Isaac Newton, and, of course, Leonardo Da Vinci. [More Info]
“The Grail,” Langdon said, “is symbolic of the lost goddess. When Christianity came along, the old pagan religions did not die easily. Legends of chivalric quests for the Holy Grail were in fact stories of forbidden quests to find the lost sacred feminine. Knights who claimed to be “searching for the chalice” were speaking in code as a way to protect themselves from a Church that had subjugated women, banished the Goddess, burned non-believers, and forbidden the pagan reverence for the sacred feminine.” (The Da Vinci Code, pages 238-239)
The Holy Grail is a favorite metaphor for a desirable but difficult-to-attain goal, from the map of the human genome to Lord Stanley’s Cup. While the original Grail—the cup Jesus allegedly used at the Last Supper—normally inhabits the pages of Arthurian romance, Dan Brown’s recent mega–best-seller, The Da Vinci Code, rips it away to the realm of esoteric history.
But his book is more than just the story of a quest for the Grail—he wholly reinterprets the Grail legend. In doing so, Brown inverts the insight that a woman’s body is symbolically a container and makes a container symbolically a woman’s body. And that container has a name every Christian will recognize, for Brown claims that the Holy Grail was actually Mary Magdalene. She was the vessel that held the blood of Jesus Christ in her womb while bearing his children. [More Info]
A few inquires have come our way concerning Dan Brown’s best-selling work of fiction, The DaVinci Code. This book had muscled its way onto the bestseller list through blanketing the landscape with free copies and has inspired some questions, lots of media attention, and concerns from Christians who don’t like the ideas, but don’t the answers to them because of its content. It has also recently been the inspiration for a prime time television news special on the ABC network, [1] and it has also been recently announced that Sony Pictures has acquired the film rights to the book. [2] Sony has assembled a talented cast to produce the film, which includes prominent director Ron Howard. [More Info]
Perhaps you've heard of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code. This fictional thriller has captured the coveted number one sales ranking at Amazon.com, camped out for 32 weeks on the New York Times Best-Seller List, and inspired a one-hour ABC News special. Along the way, it has sparked debates about the legitimacy of Western and Christian history.
Perhaps you've heard of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code. This fictional thriller has captured the coveted number one sales ranking at Amazon.com, camped out for 32 weeks on the New York Times Best-Seller List, and inspired a one-hour ABC News special. Along the way, it has sparked debates about the legitimacy of Western and Christian history. [More Info]
Dear Concerned Citizen,
Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code has hit #1 on every bestseller list in America. It is being translated into more than 35 languages. With more than 4 million copies in print, Brown was able to sell the movie rights this summer to Columbia pictures for $6 million. Ron Howard was signed to direct and Brian Grazer to produce the film.
The Da Vinci Code, a spiritual thriller tucked inside a conspiratorial mega-romance novel (pagans love women, Christians hate them), has captured the imagination of millions which promotes the deconstruction of the church. Toward this end Brown and his P.R. team promote the book’s theories as history, not fiction. The first written word of Chapter 1 is “Fact”. [More Info]
Besieged by requests for my reaction to The Da Vinci Code, I finally decided to sit down and read it over the weekend. It was a quick romp, largely fun to read, if rather predictable and preachy. This is a good airplane book, a novelistic thriller that presents a rummage sale of accurate historical nuggets alongside falsehoods and misleading statements. The bottom line: the book should come coded for "black light," like the pen used by the character Sauniere to record his dying words, so that readers could scan pages to see which "facts" are trustworthy and which patently not, and (if a black light could do this!) highlight the gray areas where complex issues are misrepresented and distorted. [More Info]
Liberty University theologians defend the Gospel against charges that Jesus never presented Himself to be the Son of God and refute the claims that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were secret lovers
In February, National Liberty Journal Editor J.M. Smith sat down with two renowned theologians and authors, Liberty University professors Dr. Edward Hindson and Dr. Gary Habermas, to discuss the phenomenon of "The Da Vinci Code," the best-selling novel that portrays the Gospel of Christ as a man-made narrative that is intended as allegory. [More Info]
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