Paris police call Harvard professor Robert Langdon and cryptologist Sophie Neveu to interpret a strange symbol left on the victim’s body. He continues, “he issues of faith and relationship to God are too important to be left to the confusing category of ‘historical’ fiction where the claim is that despite being a novel the history is fact.”īrown’s novel opens with the curator of the Louvre Museum found murdered. The scope of what it claims as fact, the impression it leaves making those claims under the ‘cover’ of fiction, and the fact that it addresses a significant subject for our culture’s own self understanding make it important that its claims be assessed and/or appreciated,” Bock writes in his book “Breaking the Da Vinci Code.” Albert Mohler Jr., president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., are among the many evangelicals who have refuted the movie’s claims. The movie also claims that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene and had a child whose descendents are still alive.Įrwin Lutzer, senior pastor of The Moody Church in Chicago Darrell Bock, research professor of New Testament studies at Dallas Theological Seminary in Dallas, Texas and R. “The Da Vinci Code,” a movie from Sony Pictures set to debut in theaters May 19, is based on a bestselling novel by Dan Brown and attacks such key doctrines as the deity of Christ, the reliability of the gospels and the bodily resurrection of Jesus.
(BP)–“The Da Vinci Code” sounded a battle cry, and evangelicals have responded by taking up their pens to combat a challenge to some of the most central doctrines of the Christian faith.
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