The first thing that needs to be said about The Da Vinci Code is that it is a thriller, a work of fiction. The author – whatever stances he takes, whatever questions he is raising, and whatever controversies are arising out of these – is presenting a present-day mystery required to be solved by his leading characters, Robert Langdon and Sophie Neveu.
This present-day mystery is, however, a work of fiction based on a Dan Brown’s mix of some de facto events, along with some persuasively possible and some probably unlikely religious hypotheses about the distant past that have been controversial for centuries and are becoming more so as speculation increases owing to the discovery – and in some cases re-discovery, at least from a public point of view – of ancient records.
The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi records, since they speak directly from that past, have been seminal in causing many people to seek answers to questions that would have seemed heretical to many of their forebears.
The real value of The Da Vinci Code, a novel of the early 21st century, lies in its ingeniously creating a believable (if controversial) reality out of a ‘Christian’ past that is increasingly under investigation as new information about ancient events comes to light, and an increasing number of people question the old dogmas and Church-ordained beliefs that no longer sustain or convince.
We each structure our view of reality according to our own culture, environment, life experiences, choices and judgements. What Dan Brown offers in The Da Vinci Code is a ‘reality’ created out of evidence and interpretations that hold together to create a background that is as likely to be ‘true’ as all other speculations based on gathering broad spectrum research and the choices made in presenting it.
There would not be this avid questioning and speculation were dissatisfactions with the Christian Churches not already existing and Christian dogmas not already being questioned at every level.
One of the powerful consequences of The Da Vinci Code is that it is causing people who read it simply to be entertained to ask questions not only about the nature of what is presented as ‘the truth’ by the Church, but also about how we decide what is ‘true’ in our everyday lives.
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