Decoding Christianity: A Response to The Da Vinci Code

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Christianity in Antiquity ~ Smith, Fall 2015 ~ Final Exam ~ Question 1 Imagine that you are in a position of authority, because of your degree from Iliff, at a church, in a teaching setting, at a nonprofit, or (if none of those work for you) within your circle of friends. Someone comes to you (knowing about your excellent Iliff education) and demands to know why you—and the church—have been hiding the truth from them. They show you a passage from the 2004 novel The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown, which they have been reading. The passage is a conversation between Sir Leigh Teabing (who plays the role of historian(Expert of history especially of a particular period)) and Sophie Neveu Saint-Clair (who is one of the story’s protagonists --- (the leading …show more content…

Write a response to the person. http://americamagazine.org/issue/575/article/real-story-council-nicea http://www.fourthcentury.com/urkunde-22/ - Nicea Creed letter from Dr. Eric http://www.fourthcentury.com/urkunde-chart-opitz/ Arian Controversy letter from Dr. Eric In 3 pages, describe your historical assessment of the evidence presented by this excerpt of The Da Vinci Code. What does it get wrong and/or right about Constantine, Nicaea, Gnostics, Christology, etc., and how do you know? The Christology issues were: nature of the Son of God and his relationship to God the Father, constructing the first part of the Creed of Nicaea, establishing and agreed upon date to observe Easter, and finally to state and put into effect new early canon law. I want you to know that Constantine, at the Council of Nicae, did not vote on the Deity of Christ and he did not suppress the Gnostic gospels. The key issue was related to Son versus Father God. An Arian controversy started when Alexandria a newly reinstated presbyter Arius started spreading doctrinal views that did not agree with the bishop St. Alexander of Alexandria. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Council_of_Nicaea and http://www.fourthcentury.com/index.php/urkunde-chart-opitz taken

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