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Da Vinci Code Reality Check No. 1: Christ’s Divinity

One of the many pseudo-historical howlers in Dan Brown’s pretentious potboiler is his claim that Christ’s divinity was invented by Constantine in 325 A.D. All the biblical record aside, the patristic testimonies are overwhelming. Dr. Marcellino D’Ambrosio did us the favor of cataloging the early texts at the website of the Crossroads Initiative. Catholic Answers has also posted a nice chain of early-Christian teaching.

But if you’re extremely lazy and you’d rather just look at pictures, don’t worry: God loves you, too. In fact, He arranged for an archeological dig late last year to turn up the oldest-known Christian church, and it had all its mosaics intact. One mosaic was clearly dedicated to “the God, Jesus Christ.” Visit the secular media’s news stories on the house-church at Meggido. The BBC posted pictures. You’ll find good images here, too. They’re quite beautiful — not to mention useful. Remember: with every hour that passes, another sixty suckers are born into the world, and Dan Brown probably sells another sixty books. In hardcover.

2 thoughts on “Da Vinci Code Reality Check No. 1: Christ’s Divinity

  1. Micahel:
    Ya know it,s very interesting to note a common if contradictory claim by modern anticatholic polemists: either they accuse St Paul or Constantine of inventing Christanity. Why? How come the Evangelists or the Apostles are never accused of ‘inventing’ Christanity?

    xavier

  2. Good question. My guess: Because both Paul and Constantine are palpable and colorful personalities. The evangelists and other apostles become mostly transparent, so that we see the Lord through them. Paul and Constantine wear the bullseye of the historical “character.”

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