( Movie Image by Getty Images via Daylife) Ron Howard’s new movie adaptation of Dan Brown’s 2000 novel Angels and Demons just came out this week. This is the long waited sequel to The Da Vinci Code. This time the work is exploring themes of science verses religion with Christianity and particularly Catholicism in the […]

The discovery of one of the earliest churches at Megiddo, Israel several years ago, gives archaeological support for the divinity of Jesus as an early Christian teaching. Many recent writers, particularly Dan Brown of The Da Vinci Code, have insisted that the ‘divinity of Jesus Christ’ was a later teaching that was formulated by Constantine […]

By Hank Hanegraaff and Paul L. Maier (Wheaton,Ill.: Tyndale House Pub.,Inc., 2004, 79 pgs) This is an excellent book for dealing with the myriad of historical problems presented in the novel by Dan Brown.  In Part One, Dr. Paul Maier points out all the major historical/religious problems and challenges made in The Da Vinci Code.  […]

Sony/Columbia Pictures, 2006, Directed by: Ron Howard; Starring: Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Ian McKellen      The long awaited ‘block-buster’ movie is finally here, but is it really deserving of the title, or is it a ‘bust’, or maybe something in between?  Maybe it is just ‘good’ or ‘very good’.  The 40 million best-seller book created an […]

    There are hundreds of historical mistakes made by the Dan Brown in The Da Vinci Code.  None of it would be particularly important in a work of ‘fiction’,  except that Brown claims that all the background material is ‘true’.  He continues to maintain that view even in the face of numerous  assaults by historians, […]