Why do the experts care about the mistakes in The Da Vinci Code?
Because they fear that people who don’t know much about Christian history will assume Mr. Brown got it right. The Rev. Robin Griffith-Jones is the master of Temple Church in London and author of The Da Vinci Code and the Secrets of the Temple. His church is one of the places the novel’s protagonists visit on their quest for truth. “I have recently seen Syriana and The Constant Gardner . I have never known anything about the oil or pharmaceutical industries, and probably never will,” he said. “But those films, which I know were of course fictional, were so vivid that they have given me a template into which I will from now on fit everything I read/hear about the oil/chemical business. Ditto with The Da Vinci Code, for a large number of people who will from now on see priests, monks, the church, Christian faith and churches-and-women in the light cast by the novel and film.
