Saturday, May 13, 2006
Armstrong Presents List of 'DaVinci Code' Resources
Bruce Armstrong at Ordinary, Everyday Christian, has presented a list of resources to help in understanding The DaVinci Code. The underlying philosophies of the writers represented on the list vary, as do their writing styles. So, you're bound to find stimulating reading that you'll like among the entries.
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It's a funny thing about the Da Vinci code: I just cannot bring myself to read it. Normally, I make a point of reading things that are controversial, at the very least to understand others' points of view and/or in order to better frame my own arguments.
But this, somehow, is different. I suppose it could partly because I became disenchanted with Dan Brown's work after reading an earlier book which everyone touted as so "informative" and "real" when there were a number of absurdities in premise and execution. Mostly, though--and I'm a little troubled by this--it was the reaction of a woman in a spirituality group to which I belonged. She had read the book and said that it had inspired her and renewed her faith in Christianity because she now had Mary, wife of Jesus, to believe in, and that made Jesus more real to her.
I just about fell over. I mean, I understand that there are various way to "spirituality" in the generic sense, but I found this pretty shocking in a Christian sense.
To this day, she encourages people to read the Da Vinci code, and she can't wait for the movie. That's fine for her, it being a free country, but it disquiets me, based on the conversations that took place in the our group that night (which we don't generally disclose).
This, by the way, was not a "New Age" spirituality group, but specifically one having to do with spiritual direction, in the Christian tradition.
I feel that I can't blog about my reaction to the whole Da Vinci controversy specifically because I haven't read the book and don't wish to see the movie. But for anyone who's saying that people don't really take it to heart and substitute Brown's "theology" for that actually presented in Christianity, I offer this story.
It's not the only example I could give from first-hand experience.
Reader:
Thanks for sharing all of this. I'm like you, I think. This whole DaVinci Code thing and the perversion of faith it presents utterly creeps me out!
Mark
Doris:
It is fiction. My problem though, is that Brown claims that it's founded in fact. He claims that there's a Priory of Sion, for example; there isn't. He claims that the whole business about Mary Magdalene is true; it isn't. And, as Reader points out in her forgoing comments, there are credulous people, even people in the Church who buy this stuff.
Mark
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