Books

The Da Vinci Rejects

What other publishers could have done to respond to Dan Brown’s bestseller.

Christianity Today June 1, 2004

Baker:    The Da Vinci Corrective:Recovering Biblical Equality in the Life of Mary Magdalene    By Catherine Clark Kroeger

Canon Press:    Evil Art:Da Vinci’s Last Supper and the Need for a New Iconoclasm    By Douglas Jones

Chick Publications:    Opus Day:Everyone’s Favorite Cartoon Penguin Invades the Secretive Catholic Organization    By J.T. Chick and Berkley Breathed, with introduction by former Opus Dei leader Alberto Rivera.

Church House Publishing:    The Da Vinci Code:Imagining Leonardo as an Anglican Isn’t Crazier than Dan Brown’s Fantasies.    By Rowan Williams

Crossway:    Gneutered Gnostics:Troubling Gender-Inclusive Language in Da Vinci Code Response Books   By Wayne A. Grudem

Eerdmans:    The Rembrandt Code:Understanding the Hidden Calvinist Messages in The Prodigal Son and Other Paintings.    By Hendrik van den Leeuwen

Harvest House:    The Power of a Praying Painter: The True Meaning and Devotion of Leonardo da Vinci’s Art.    By Stormie Omartian, with a foreword by Thomas Kincade.

Howard Publishing:    Hugs for Heretics

Moody:    Is Saddam Hussein Leonardo da Vinci the Antichrist?     By Charles H. Dyer (Slightly revised from earlier published edition of similar book)

Relevant:    The DiCaprio Code:Spiritual Messages of Leonardo’s Work, From Growing Pains to Catch Me If You Can    By Will Johnson

Also from Relevant:    Fresh Frescoes:The Spiritual Journey of Dan Brown

Spence:    The Da Vinci Threat:How a Painter Blurred the Lines of Gender & Sexual Ethics and Is Still Destroying the Family 500 Years Later   By Joseph Farah

Strang:    The Da Vinci Cure:How Leonardo Painted the Perfect Diet   By Don Colbert, M.D.

Waterbrook:    The Da Vinci Codependent    By Steve Arterburn

Westminster John Knox:    The Gospel According to Dan Brown    By Mark I. Pinsky

W:    Line of ancillary products: The Da Vinci Coat, The Da Vinci Comb, and The Da Vin-Tea Cozy

Zondervan (emergent/ys):    A New Kind of Code:The Church Needs to Read Heretical Fiction Because It’s So Modernist, Man    By Brian McLaren

Christianity Today:    Is Gnosticism a Religion of Peace?   By J.I. Packer, Timothy George, and Tom Oden

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Related Elsewhere:

Also on our site today:

Da Vinci Dissenters | Four books try to break, crack, or decode the deception. By David Neff

Speaking in Code | A roundup of the many anti-Da Vinci Code books from Christian publishers. Compiled by Ted Olsen

FaithfulReader.com also rounded up several Da Vinci Code response books and authors.

Beliefnet published excerpts from some of the response books, including those by Bock, Witherington, Lutzer, Garlow/Jones, and Welborn.

See also our special section on The Da Vinci Code with sister publication Christian History.

Our site also offers for sale twoBible studies based on The Da Vinci Code controversies.

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