Dr. Erwin Lutzer is Pastor of Moody Memeorial Church in Chicago. IL and author of What Happens One Minute After You Die and The Da Vinci Deception.
The Da Vinci Code is a controversial mystery/detective novel by US author Dan Brown, published in 2003 by Doubleday.
This novel has provoked popular interest in speculation concerning the Holy Grail legend and the role of Mary Magdalene in the history of Christianity. According to the premise of the novel, the Vatican knows it is perpetuating a lie about Jesus' bloodline and the role of women in church, but continues to do so to keep itself in power.
Dan Brown's novel was a major success in 2004 and at times it was outsold only by the highly popular Harry Potter series.[1] It spawned a number of offspring books and drew glowing reviews from the New York Times, People Magazine and the Washington Post.[2] It also re-ignited interest in the history of the Roman Catholic Church. Additionally, The Da Vinci Code, itself preceded by other Grail books such as The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail by Michael Baigent and others, and Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum, has inspired a number of novels very similar to it, including Raymond Khoury's The Last Templar, and The Templar Legacy by Steve Berry.
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Dr. John F. Ankerberg, B.A., M.Div., D.Min., President and founder of the Ankerberg Theological Research Institute, producer and host of the nationally telivised John Ankerberg Show, a half-hour weekly program which presents contemporary spirtual issues and defends biblical/Christian answers.
http://ankerberg.com/
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