Da Vinci Code forum

The campus community is welcome and students will receive two chapel credits.

Some issues to be discussed:

· Did early Christians suppress alternative gospels, such as certain Gnostic gospels? 
· Did Jesus marry Mary Magdalene?
· Did a powerful group of Christians (the ‘orthodox’) suppress alternative groups (like those teaching the ‘divine feminine’)?
· Was belief in the divinity of Christ ‘invented’ at the Council of Nicea?
· Who are the Templars and what is the Holy Grail?
· What genre is The Da Vinci Code?
· Is the relation between fact/fiction appropriately expressed?
· �� Are there current Catholic conspiracies to suppress unfavorable views within the Church?
· What is Opus Dei?

Members of the panel:

· Prof. John Vonder Bruegge, New Testament
· Dr. John Brogan, New Testament / Vice President for Student Development
· Dr.  Robert Winn, Church History
· Dr. Joonna Trapp, Literature and Writing/Rhetoric
· Father Douglas Klein, Pastor of Trinity Cluster Parishes, Rock Valley