Product Description

The Best-Selling Anti-Catholic Novel of All Time

That title belongs to Dan Brown's infamous book, "The Da Vinci Code." But many people don't realize it. A slick marketing campaign has portrayed the book as a fact-based thriller. Many Catholics and other Christians have bought it - and bought into its outrageous claims.

According to "The Da Vinci Code":

* Jesus is not God; he was only a man.
* Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene.
* Jesus got her pregnant, and the two had a daughter who gave rise to a prominent European bloodline.
* The Bible was put together by a pagan Roman emperor.
* There is a secret society known as the Priory of Sion that still worships Mary Magdalene as a goddess and is trying to keep the "truth" alive.
* The Catholic Church is aware of all this and has been fighting for centuries to keep it suppressed, often committing murder to do so.

All of these claims are false. Now, this booklet gives you the answers you need to expose the errors of "The Da Vinci Code." Drawing information from a multitude of sources and presenting it in a concise, easy-to-read format, "Cracking the Da Vinci Code" rips the mask off the runaway best-seller. It is must-reading for anyone who has encountered the outrageous novel.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2888069 in Books
• Published on: 2004-10
• Binding: Paperback
• 36 pages

Review
This booklet packs a tremendous amount of accessible, reliable information in a small space. I highly recommend it! -- Carl Olson, co-author of "The Da Vinci Hoax"

About the Author
Jimmy Akin was born in Texas and raised in Arkansas. He grew up nominally Protestant but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant pastor or seminary professor, Jimmy started an intensive study of the Bible, but the more he immersed himself in Scripture, the more he found it to support the Catholic faith. Eventually, he was compelled in conscience to enter the Catholic Church, which he did in 1992. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in the book "Surprised by Truth." Jimmy is director of apologetics and evangelization at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to "This Rock" magazine, a weekly guest on the global radio program "Catholic Answers Live," and the author of several books, including "Mass Confusion: The Do’s and Don’ts of Catholic Worship" and "The Salvation Controversy."

Customer Reviews

Perfect quick read
This book is intended to be a quick treatment of a very difficult subject.
Brown makes at least one error per chapter in his book and it would take a lot more space to thoroughly refute all of them.
This book does not try to do that. Instead it seeks to give a general overview of each error and provide general refutation of them.
If you want the short explanation then this is the book for you.
If you are looking for more depth then I would suggest either "The DaVinci Hoax" by Olson and Miesel, The DaVinci Deception" by Shea and Sri, as well as another by the same title by Lutzer, or "de-coding DaVinci" by Amy Wellborn.

Each of them presents an in depth study of the problems, but if you just want a quick analysis, then this is the book for you.

I would reccomend that each parish buy several copies of this and use them for a class refuting Brown, or sell them in the foyer book rack.