Da Vinci Code geleentheid om te onderrig

Nog nooit het so baie mense belang gestel in wat by die Konsilie van Nicea gebeur het nie! En nog nooit het so baie mense belang gestel in die eerste eeue van die kerk se geskiedenis nie. En dit is alles Dan Brown se skuld ... !

The public's unquenchable thirst for juicy alternatives to the "greatest story ever told" prompts the question: Why are so many people getting their church history from pulp fiction? The answer might be that even Christians -- Roman Catholics, mainline Protestants and evangelicals -- haven't learned it anywhere else.

"I think the book does fill a void; this is a story, and the churches have gotten away from storytelling," said David Turk, a provost and vice president for academic affairs at the evangelical Alliance Theological Seminary in Nyack, N.Y. "People have a real need to know ... what was Jesus' life like? We want to know, and the book raises questions that strike home. Churches can't run from it."