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The Da Vinci Code

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The gnostic Christ fails, the true Christ heals

September 7, 2024 Carl E. Olson 22

On the Readings for Sunday, September 9, 2018 […]

The Dispatch

G. K. Chesterton on Dan Brown: The Interview

October 18, 2017 Carl E. Olson 6

“Good literature may tell us the mind of one man; but bad literature may tell us the mind of many men. A good novel tells […]

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The Magdalene: Saint, Sinner, or Goddess?

July 22, 2017 Carl E. Olson 4

It’s rather sad that the best-selling book about Mary Magdalene is The Da Vinci Code, a novel that has now sold over 80 million copies. While the novel is, of course, named after the famous […]

Analysis

Move over, Dan Brown; here come Spadaro and Figueroa!

July 17, 2017 Carl E. Olson 33

My good friend Sandra Miesel, with whom I co-authored The Da Vinci Hoax years ago, was fond of starting out her talks about the mega-selling novel The Da Vinci Code by saying: “Dan Brown does […]

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