The Gospel According to The Da Vinci Code: The Truth Behind the Writings of Dan Brown

by Kenneth D. Boa, John Alan Turner

Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code has become the best-selling hardcover adult novel of all time, spouting a tenuous postmodern worldview akin to the age-old heresy of "Gnosticism." Though Gnosticism has been refuted repeatedly throughout the history of Christianity, and many of Brown's sources have been proven frauds, people are still reading Brown's books to become "enlightened."

The Gospel According to The Da Vinci Code not only refutes the philosophies behind this blockbuster book. It also looks at Brown's other writings to form a clearer picture of the worldview that guides his writings, why this worldview is so popular and what the church must do in response.

Genres: Nonfiction

176 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2006

About the author

Kenneth Boa is an author, a speaker, and the president of Reflections Ministries. He is the author of over fifty books, including Conformed to His Image, Faith Has Its Reasons, Face to Face, and Rewriting Your Broken Story. He is a contributing editor to the Open Bible, the Promise Keepers Men's Study Bible, and the Leadership Bible, and is the consulting editor of the Zondervan NASB Study Bible.

Boa earned a BS from Case Institute of Technology, a ThM from Dallas Theological Seminary, a PhD from New York University, and a DPhil from the University of Oxford. He teaches a weekly Bible and Faith study at Peachtree Presbyterian Church in Atlanta, Georgia, where he resides with his wife.

Reviews

[Sophie · Rating 2 out of 5]

This basically boiled down to: if you don't believe traditional, Christian orthodoxy, you're wrong, and Dan Brown isn't a very good writer. The authors made a lot of claims about how Brown got a lot of things wrong (but offered up very little in the way of examples and even less evidence), and got really offended at everything in a fictional novel.

[Joy · Rating 3 out of 5]

DVC came out in early 2000’s; I remember reading it then and it threw me for a loop. Then got centered and realized it was heretical, despite the fact the author said he did extensive research
and said it was historical fact. It was not. Well written - Boa’s book