Dan Brown wonderfully created his own "sphere of influence" through his writing of The Da Vinci Code, mostly affecting Christians, but also non-Christians alike. Dan Brown masterfully creates an edge-of-your-seat thriller, by using an international murder mystery, and the entire base of Western Theology, along with secret societies, and hidden documents that could destroy the base of modern Christianity. Dan Brown fused all of these together in his elucide form of writing that not only causes the reader think and predict the possible pathways towards the ending, but he also challenges the reader to look at their own faith and to test it along the way. He uses the murder of a high profile French citizen as the prop for the story, who has a hidden secret, much like the ones in the cryptographs that he used to play with his granddaughter Sophie Neveu. Moments before the man's death he leaves gruesome clues at the scene, that he knows that his granddaughter Sophie Neveu, and Robert Langdon; a famed symbologist, could solve. The two soon become suspects in the case as they work together to try and figure out what the clues mean . . . Taking paths to find out the truth in the characters lives and the truth for the world.
Although the book does probe some elucide and pure heretical theories, towards the origin of the Bible and the Truth behind it. It poses some quite intriguing thoughts about the subject though. My thoughts on this was, it does take some "serious shots at our faith" but if we can not stand up to a book that pushes us to truly investigate what we believe, how to can we expect to stand up to other people when they try to push us in the same way? Reading this book really makes me examine my faith and weed out the truth from superstition...