Product Description: Get the facts behind the sensational fiction! Dan Brown's novel, The DaVinci Code, has stormed the bestseller charts and both the book and upcoming film claim to be based on truth, a truth shocking enough to rock the foundations of Christianity...read more

Examines the misconceptions about early Christianity throughout 'The Da Vinci Code' and discusses the worldview presented in the novel, as well as Dan Brown's other writings, and how modern Christianity can respond to it.

Looks at the theories about Christian origins and church history suggested in the novel, 'The Da Vinci Code,' and explains how they ignore or misinterpret the available information as it has been understood in Catholic tradition.

Product Description: Gnosticism is an extreme religious sensibility, dating from the early Christian era, that combines a radically pessimistic view of life and the world with an optimistic belief that the human spirit is itself divine, though lost in an alien and evil world...read more

Product Description: This study offers a reappraisal of the importance of Antonin Artaud (1896-1948) in contemporary critical debate, and examines the intricate parallels between his heretical dramaturgy and the heresies of ancient Gnosticism. It argues that the gnostic drama explored throughout Artaud's oeuvre presents an assault on the founding tenets of Western thought that is more thoroughgoing and powerful than that mounted by the post-structuralist critics who have adopted Artaud as an icon of failure and madness...read more

Product Description: Book by Humphries, Jefferson