Breaking the Da Vinci Code

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THE
Da Vinci
code
DARRELL L. BOCK, PH.D.
FINDING THE REAL JESUS
Was Leonardo da Vinci the one person who stumbled onto a Vatican plot to conceal the truth about Jesus and then exposed it in his faniious work of art "The Last Supper"? Have sinister global religious organizations suppressed secrets that reveal "the real Jesus"? These are the questions people are asking after reading The Da Vinci Code.
- Can the so-called "secret" Gnostic Gospels lead us to a Jesus we don't know?
- Did Jesus marry and have children?
- Was Mary Magdalene really one of the apostles?
- Were the New Testament Gospels assembled in the way "the code" implies?
- Just how much of The Da Vinci Code should we believe?
Many have been troubled by the unorthodox historical claims found in Dan Brown's novel while others have excitedly embraced its version of Christian history.
Brealdng the Da Vinci Code will help you recognize the agenda that lurks behind the codes. Darrell L. Bock will help you break... Tovább

Fülszöveg

THE
Da Vinci
code
DARRELL L. BOCK, PH.D.
FINDING THE REAL JESUS
Was Leonardo da Vinci the one person who stumbled onto a Vatican plot to conceal the truth about Jesus and then exposed it in his faniious work of art "The Last Supper"? Have sinister global religious organizations suppressed secrets that reveal "the real Jesus"? These are the questions people are asking after reading The Da Vinci Code.
- Can the so-called "secret" Gnostic Gospels lead us to a Jesus we don't know?
- Did Jesus marry and have children?
- Was Mary Magdalene really one of the apostles?
- Were the New Testament Gospels assembled in the way "the code" implies?
- Just how much of The Da Vinci Code should we believe?
Many have been troubled by the unorthodox historical claims found in Dan Brown's novel while others have excitedly embraced its version of Christian history.
Brealdng the Da Vinci Code will help you recognize the agenda that lurks behind the codes. Darrell L. Bock will help you break the Da Vinci Code—to distinguish fictitious entertainment from genuine historical elements of Christian faith. But be prepared. As Dr. Bock warns, "There are some interesting— even alarming—surprises along the way" as you discover the most important code of all.
DARRELL L. BOCK, PH.D., is research professor of New Testament studies at Dallas Theological Seminary in Dallas, Texas. He also serves as professor for spiritual development and culture for the seminary's center for Christian leadership. His special fields of study Involve hermeneutics, the use of the Old Testament in the New, the historical Jesus, and Gospels studies. As well as being a corresponding editor for Christianity /ociayand past president of the Evangelical Theological Society, Dr. Bock serves as an elder at Trinity Fellowship Church in Richardson, Texas, where he lives with his wife, Sally, and their three children.
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"Breaking the Da Vinci Code breaks through the cloud of conspiracy theories surrounding documents and practices of the early church. Darrell Bock's hard work provides readers with an easy entry into territory that would otherwise be dauntingly confusing." —FREDERICA MAtHEWES-GREEN, National Public Radio's Morning Edition Commentator
"Brealdng the Da Vinci Code is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the pernicious natm oi The Da Vinci Code." —DAVID NEFF, Editor & Vice-President, Cftr/sf/amtKrotfa/ •
"Ordinarily, an entire book would hardly be necessary to refute the errors in The Da Vinci Corfe—just a trenchant review article. Yet Dan Brown's book is so packed with historical error, deception, and falsehood, as well as outright hostility to the truths of Christianity, that it does indeed take a book to correct the record. Brealdng the Da Vinci Code is a welcome literary antidote against literary poison." —PAULL.MAIER, Professor of History (Western Mich. U.) and Author of More Than a Skeleton
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"In Breaking the Da Vinci Code Darrell Bock offers a-thorough and convincing guide through the maze of issues offered so boldly in Brown's book For every Christian who has read The Da Kmc/Coi/e, this volume is an essential companion." —GARY M. SURGE, PH.D., Wheaton College and Graduate School
"From my Roman Catholic tradition, I am happy to join Darrell and his Protestant tradition to affirm that the 'myth' of The Da Vinci Code does not have a leg to stand on in its attempt to dethrone the two-thousand-year-old Christian story of what God has done for us in and through Jesus Christ. He has 'broken' The Da Vinci Code." —FRANCIS J. MDLDNEY, S.D.B., D.PHIL. (FROM FOREWORD) Dean, School of Theology and Religious Studies, The Catholic University of America
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