CRACKING DA VINCI'S CODE
By James L. Garlow & Peter Jones
Victor (Kingsway Communications). 252 pages. £8.45
ISBN 0 78144 165 X
In December's EN we ran a review of the recent best seller that has swept America and is now descending upon the UK -The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown.
There we tried to convey that, although possibly a gripping read and ostensibly a work of fiction, the barely hidden agenda is far from innocent (or even just racy!) fun. Brown clearly sets out to discredit and undermine orthodox Christianity in a deceptive and dishonest way. Among other things it perpetrates the idea that Jesus was married and that this was suppressed because the church is anti-female. How heartening then the emergence of Cracking Da Vinci's Code, co-authored by two men with impressive academic credentials, which systematically critiques Brown's thesis and the erroneous historical 'facts' he uses to support it.