Reviews > Books  Know nothings  Books | Popular fiction,
feminist scholarship, and even Christians' false piety have
helped revive the ancient Gnostic heresy -- perfect timing for a
new manual for worldview thinking  Issue: "Summer Books 2004,"
July 3, 2004  THE DA VINCI CODE BY DAN BROWN has sold more than
7 million copies in a little over a year. That sets a record for
sales within a one-year period, so that its publisher can claim
that the book is the biggest-selling adult novel of all time.
The book is indeed a thriller, hard to put down, with its
exciting action, twists and turns, and unfolding puzzles. But
this work of fiction puts forward certain ideas as true, and a
good number of readers are accepting them as true: Jesus was
married to Mary Magdalene, and their bloodline continues to this
day. His true teachings had to do with the worship of "the
sacred feminine." The church suppressed His message with its
patriarchal institutions and dogmatic theology, twisting the
teachings of Jesus into an oppres