Theological Critiques of the Da Vinci Code

Bill Muehlenberg

28 April 2006

Evangelical Protestant Critiques

Abanes, Richard, The Truth Behind the Da Vinci Code: A Challenging Response to the Bestselling Novel. Harvest House, 2004.

Boa, Kenneth and John Turner, The Gospel According to the Da Vinci Code: The Truth Behind the Writings of Dan Brown. Broadman and Holman, 2006.

Bock, Darrell, Breaking The Da Vinci Code : Answers to the Questions Everybody’s Asking. Nelson Books, 2004.

Flory, Susanna and Virginia Monroe, Fear Not Da Vinci: Using the Da Vinci Code to Share Your Faith. AMG, 2006.

Clark, Stephen, The Da Vinci Code on Trial. Evangelical Press, 2005.

Garlow, James, Cracking Da Vinci’s Code: You’ve Read the Fiction, Now Read the Facts. Faithworks, 2004.

Garlow, James, The Da Vinci Codebreaker: An Easy-to-Use Fact Checker. Bethany House, 2006.

Green, Michael, The Books the Church Suppressed. Monarch, 2005.

Gunbel, Nicky, The Da Vince Code: A Response. Alpha International, 2005.

Hanegraaff, Hank and Paul L. Maier, The Da Vinci Code: Fact or Fiction. Tyndale House, 2004.

Lutzer, Erwin W., The Da Vinci Deception. Tyndale House, 2004.

McDowell, Josh, The Da Vinci Code: A Quest for Answers. Campus Crusade for Christ, 2005.

Strobel, Lee and Garry Poole, Discussing the Da Vinci Code. Zondervan, 2006.

Witherington, Ben, The Gospel Code. IVP, 2004.

Catholic Critiques

Kellmeyer, Steve, Fact and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code. Bridegroom Press, 2004.

Mobbs, Frank, The Incredible Da Vinci Code. Freedom Publishing, 2005.

Olson, Carl E. and Sandra Miesel, The Da Vinci Hoax: Exposing the Errors in The Da Vinci Code. Ignatius Press, 2004.

Thompson, Mary, Mary of Magdala: What the Da Vinci Code Misses. Paulist Press, 2005.

Welborn, Amy, De-Coding Da Vinci: The Facts Behind the Fiction of The Da Vinci Code. Our Sunday Visitor, 2004.

Other Critiques

Ehrman, Bart, Truth or Fiction in the Da Vinci Code: A Historian Reveals What We Really Know about Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Constantine. Oxford University Press, 2006.

Videos/DVDs

The Da Vinci Code Deception. (With Darrell Bock, Edwin Lutzer, James Garlow, etc.) Grizzly Adams Productions, 2005.

Discussing the Da Vinci Code. (With Lee Strobel, Garry Poole) Zondervan, 2005.

Websites

Campus Crusade for Christ: http://www.campuscrusade.com/DaVinciquest

Leadership University; http://www.leaderu.com/focus/davincicode.html

Radio Bible Class Ministries: http://www.rbcdavincicode.org/links.php

Westminster Theological Seminary: http://www.thetruthaboutdavinci.com