What is the name of the central character, a Harvard professor of religious iconology and symbology, in Dan Brown's novels 'Angels And Demons' and 'The Da Vinci Code'?
"co-starring Felicity Jones, Ben Foster, Irrfan Khan and Sidse Babett Knudsen. Angels & Demons (film) Angels & Demons is a 2009 American mystery thriller film directed by Ron Howard and written by Akiva Goldsman and David Koepp, based on Dan Brown's novel of the same title. It is the sequel to the 2006 film ""The Da Vinci Code"", also directed by Howard, and the second installment in the ""Robert Langdon"" film series. The novel was published first and ""The Da Vinci Code"" novel followed it. Filming took place in Rome, Italy, and the Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, California."
"life editor Jason Kaufman. Brown also said that characters were based on a New Hampshire librarian, and a French teacher at Exeter, André Vernet. Cardinal Aldo Baggia, in ""Angels & Demons"", is named after Aldo Baggia, instructor of modern languages at Phillips Exeter Academy. In interviews, Brown has said his wife, Blythe, is an art historian and painter. When they met, she was the Director of Artistic Development at the National Academy for Songwriters in Los Angeles. During the 2006 lawsuit over alleged copyright infringement in ""The Da Vinci Code"", information was introduced at trial that showed that Blythe did"
"films. Brown's novels that feature the lead character, Langdon, also include historical themes and Christianity as motifs, and have generated controversy. Brown states on his website that his books are not anti-Christian, though he is on a 'constant spiritual journey' himself, and says that his book ""The Da Vinci Code"" is simply ""an entertaining story that promotes spiritual discussion and debate"" and suggests that the book may be used ""as a positive catalyst for introspection and exploration of our faith"". Dan Gerhard Brown was born on June 22, 1964, in Exeter, New Hampshire. He has a younger sister, Valerie (born"
"the interpretation of the Scrolls. This was discredited by Otto Betz and Rainer Riesner in their book ""Jesus, Qumran and The Vatican: Clarifications"" (1994). Some of the ideas presented in Baigent's earlier book ""Holy Blood, Holy Grail"", were incorporated in the bestselling American novel ""The Da Vinci Code"", by Dan Brown. In ""The Da Vinci Code"", Dan Brown named the primary antagonist, a British Royal Historian, Knight of the Realm and Grail scholar, Sir Leigh Teabing, KBE, also known as the Teacher, in homage to the authors of ""Holy Blood, Holy Grail"". The name combines Richard Leigh's surname with 'Teabing',"
"had found his groove and his leading character. Robert Langdon was carried forward to the enormously successful ""The Da Vinci Code"", and ""Angels & Demons"" rode its coattails to worldwide popularity, and Langdon's ambigrams went along for the ride. An expanded second edition of Wordplay was published in 2005 by Broadway Books/Random House, followed shortly by British and French editions. Robert Langdon was, to some degree, patterned after John Langdon. Both are university professors; Robert Langdon studies symbols, with a particular focus on religious iconography; John Langdon designs symbols, and exhibits a distinct interest in philosophy. John creates ambigrams, Robert"
"Akerman School replaced it in 1949. The other East School was moved to an area near the new library. Another school was turned into a home, and another was crushed by a boulder one winter when students pushed it off a hill. Dan Brown, author of ""The Da Vinci Code"" and ""Angels & Demons"" (among other novels), taught Spanish at Lincoln Akerman for a brief period during the 1990s. High school students attend Winnacunnet High School in the neighboring town of Hampton. Heronfield Academy, a private Episcopal middle school, is located on Exeter Road on the border of Hampton Falls"
"of ambigrams. An example of Langdon's ambigrams appeared on the cover of the first edition of Brown’s novel ""Angels & Demons"", and other ambigrams featured throughout that novel were also designed by Langdon. On the acknowledgments page, Brown calls Langdon ""one of the most ingenious and gifted artists alive … who rose brilliantly to my impossible challenge and created the ambigrams for this novel"". John Langdon also created the logo for the fictitious Depository Bank of Zurich, which appears in ""The Da Vinci Code"" film. In an interview, Brown said that Joseph Campbell was an inspiration for the character of"
"described by the jury as ""a remarkable anti-structure ... a symbolic use of technology ... a piece of sculpture. It was meant as an object but it is an object to transmit light."" The ""Inverted Pyramid"" figures prominently on the concluding pages of Dan Brown's international bestseller ""The Da Vinci Code"". The protagonist of his novel, Robert Langdon, reads esoteric symbolism into the two pyramids: The ""Inverted Pyramid"" is perceived as a Chalice, a feminine symbol, whereas the stone pyramid below is interpreted as a Blade, a masculine symbol: the whole structure could thus express the union of the sexes."
"you need to check your meds."" While interviewing Umberto Eco in a 2008 issue of ""The Paris Review"", Lila Azam Zanganeh characterized ""The Da Vinci Code"" as ""a bizarre little offshoot"" of Eco's novel, ""Foucault’s Pendulum"". In response, Eco remarked, ""Dan Brown is a character from ""Foucault's Pendulum""! I invented him. He shares my characters' fascinations—the world conspiracy of Rosicrucians, Masons, and Jesuits. The role of the Knights Templar. The hermetic secret. The principle that everything is connected. I suspect Dan Brown might not even exist."" The book appeared on a 2010 list of 101 best books ever written, which"
"Richard Leigh, Henry Lincoln and Michael Baigent's ""The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail"", which, Dan Brown writes. is one of the volumes in the library of Leigh Teabing, a character in Brown's ""The Da Vinci Code"". In 2012, the disclosure of the debated contents of the so-called ""Gospel of Jesus' wife"", written in Coptic and perhaps dating to the 2nd century, has brought to the forefront the issue of the alleged relationship between Jesus and Mary Magdalene. However, the ""Gospel of Jesus' wife"" has since been shown to be a modern forgery. The Fifth Gospel The Fifth Gospel (""Das"
"Catholic, but that he will never understand God; in ""A&D"", he mentions to the Camerlengo that faith is a gift he has yet to receive. In the books, the events of ""The Da Vinci Code"" follow those of ""Angels & Demons""; this was reversed in the movies, where the latter's adaptation is written to be the sequel to the former. In ""Angels & Demons"", Robert Langdon is called to CERN headquarters in Switzerland to find about the religious symbological implications of the death of CERN's finest and best-known physicist, Leonardo Vetra, a Catholic priest who has been branded with the"
"Criticism of The Da Vinci Code ""The Da Vinci Code"", a popular suspense novel by Dan Brown, generated criticism and controversy after its publication in 2003. Many of the complaints centered on the book's speculations and misrepresentations of core aspects of Christianity and the history of the Catholic Church. Additional criticisms were directed towards the book's inaccurate descriptions of European art, history, architecture, and geography. Charges of copyright infringement were also leveled by the novelist Lewis Perdue and by the authors of the 1982 book ""The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail"", which puts forward the hypothesis that the historical"
"mathematical message written beside his body and a pentagram drawn on his chest in his own blood. The novel explores an alternative religious history, whose central plot point is that the Merovingian kings of France were descended from the bloodline of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene, ideas derived from Clive Prince's ""The Templar Revelation"" (1997) and books by Margaret Starbird. The book also refers to ""The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail"" (1982) though Dan Brown has stated that it was not used as research material. ""The Da Vinci Code"" provoked a popular interest in speculation concerning the Holy Grail"
"in their victims. ""The Last Supper"" has been the target of much speculation by writers and historical revisionists alike, usually centered on purported hidden messages or hints found within the painting, especially since the publication of the novel ""The Da Vinci Code"" by Dan Brown in 2003. Dan Brown proposed that the person to Jesus' right (left of Jesus from the viewer's perspective) is actually Mary Magdalene disguised as the Apostle John, being mirror images of one another. It also states that there was a letter ‘glaring in the center of the painting’ (M) standing for Matrimonio or Mary Magdalene."
"of ""Angels & Demons"", and again in the 2016 film adaptation of ""Inferno"". Dan Brown created the character as a fictional alter ego of himself or ""the man he wishes he could be"". Brown himself was born June 22, 1964 in Exeter, New Hampshire, and the fictional Langdon is described as having been born on June 22, also in Exeter, and attending the same school as Brown did, Phillips Exeter Academy. Initially it is established that Langdon is a successful scholar who Brown named after John Langdon, a professor of typography at Drexel University who is known for his creation"
"""Perhaps we should not altogether reject the possibility that some Johannine Christians considered Mary Magdalene to be 'the disciple whom Jesus loved'."" Esther A. de Boer likewise presents the idea as ""one possibility among others"", not as a definitive solution to the problem of the identity of the anonymous disciple. A theological interpretation of Mary as the Magdala, ""The Elegant Tower"" and certain churches honor her as a heroine of the faith in their teachings. Dan Brown's 2003 bestselling mystery thriller novel ""The Da Vinci Code"" popularized a number of erroneous ideas about Mary Magdalene, including that she was a"
"Catholic groups sought to use interest in this book and film as a means to educate Catholics and non-Catholics on the history of the Christian Church, and what it teaches regarding Jesus Christ. Similarly, other Christians have looked to use the film as a tool for evangelism. Criticism of The Da Vinci Code ""The Da Vinci Code"", a popular suspense novel by Dan Brown, generated criticism and controversy after its publication in 2003. Many of the complaints centered on the book's speculations and misrepresentations of core aspects of Christianity and the history of the Catholic Church. Additional criticisms were directed"
"ancient texts, both canon and apocryphal, and several popular culture renditions such as The Da Vinci Code and Franco Zeffirelli’s Jesus of Nazareth. Melanie Johnson-DeBaufre Melanie Johnson-DeBaufre is the Associate Dean of the Theology School at Drew University. She is known for her research into early Christianity, its relationship to the Roman Empire, and modern feminist interpretation. In 1988, Melanie Johnson-DeBaufre earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Eastern College. She then went on to receive her Master of Divinity (M.Div) in 1992 and her Doctor of Theology (Th.D) in 2002 from Harvard Divinity School. Johnson-DeBaufre worked as an Assistant"
"Opus Dei monster for different reasons, even contradictory to each other. Opus Dei, the ""enemy of today's values"" for the Falange is still the ""enemy of today's values"" for the liberals. "" Enquête sur le « monstre »"" explains the success of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code on the popular image which has been carved through the decades, an image to which Dan Brown can easily add another layer, even darker and scarier, because the public has already been accustomed to see Opus Dei as a monster. Thus, Plunkett dedicates a chapter on conspiracy theories throughout the centuries: Jesuit"
"their conclusions are the following: The authors offer, but not claim, that perhaps Leonardo da Vinci was sending veiled messages through his art, which could be understood only by others who were open to their meaning. And while on the surface these paintings seem to be simple biblical depictions, they represent in fact his belief in the superiority of John the Baptist over Jesus. Seven years after this book was published, some of the ideas presented in this and other similar books (e.g. The Last Templar), have become central to the best-selling novel ""The Da Vinci Code"" by Dan Brown."
"canard. The 2003 conspiracy fiction novel ""The Da Vinci Code"" by Dan Brown makes reference to this book, also liberally using most of the above claims as key plot elements; indeed, in 2005 Baigent and Leigh unsuccessfully sued Brown's publisher, Random House, for plagiarism, on the grounds that Brown's book makes extensive use of their research and that one of the characters is named Leigh, has a surname (Teabing) which is an anagram of Baigent, and has a physical description strongly resembling Henry Lincoln. In his novel, Brown also mentions ""Holy Blood, Holy Grail"" as an acclaimed international bestseller and"
"of persons of all sexual orientations and gender identities in the life and ministry of the Lutheran church."" Since 2007, Ebenezer Lutheran has annually on the first weekend in November sponsored a three-day conference on faith and feminism, often with a focus on reviving traditions of honoring the sacred feminine as manifested in the Hellenistic and Jewish concept of Sophia, and in the faith-traditions of minorities. The 2009 conference focused on the pseudohistorical idea that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene, an idea featured prominently in Dan Brown's famous novel ""The Da Vinci Code"". Ebenezer HerChurch is a member of"
"a literal wife. The modern idea that Jesus was married is largely attributable to ""The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail"", a book by Baigent, Leigh, and Lincoln that is considered a work of pseudohistory that relies on conspiracy theories. Its thesis was that Jesus had been married to Mary Magdalene, and that the legends of the Holy Grail were symbolic accounts of his bloodline in Europe. This thesis became much more widely circulated after it was made the center of the plot of ""The Da Vinci Code"", a best-selling 2003 novel by author Dan Brown. King rejected any link"
"ashes, also receive a piece of sackcloth ""as a reminder of our own sinful ways and need for repentance"". In Dan Brown's novel ""The Da Vinci Code"", one of the antagonists, an albino numerary named Silas associated with the religious organization Opus Dei, wears a cilice in the form of a spiked chain around his thigh. The sensationalized depiction in the novel has been criticized for its inaccuracy in subsequent books and by Opus Dei itself, which issued a press release responding to the movie's depiction of the practice, claiming ""In reality, they cause a fairly low level of discomfort"
"are a major theme. As in the other gnostic texts, the Gospel of Thomas and Gospel of Mary, the Gospel of Philip defends the tradition that gives Mary Magdalene special insight into Jesus' teaching, but does not support ""twenty-first-century inventions concerning Mary Magdalene as Jesus' wife and mother of his offspring."" Nevertheless, novels such as Dan Brown's ""The Da Vinci Code"" have encouraged the popular theory that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene. The Ancient Greek manuscript describes Jesus as Mary's ""koinonos"", or ""companion"", which may sometimes imply a sexual relationship, but is always used as ""a metaphor for a"
"Code"", ""Relic"" involves an ancient mystery and a worldwide conspiracy, the discovery that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene, and an albino as one of the central characters. In both novels, the main female character turns out to be the last living descendant of Christ and Mary Magdalene, and the daughter/granddaughter of the last grand master of a secret order. Many European readers have speculated that Dan Brown had plagiarized Tom Egeland's book. Since the Norwegian novel had not yet been translated into English when ""The Da Vinci Code"" came out, it is generally assumed today that the similarities between"
"his criticisms of Dan Brown's best-selling ""The Da Vinci Code"" for its controversial historical claims. ""Christianity Today"" named Hays's book ""Moral Vision of the New Testament"" one of the top 100 most important religious books of the 20th century. As a theologically conservative Methodist, he has throughout the course of his career remained committed to his Wesleyan roots in emphasizing the importance of charity and friendship in the Christian life. Moreover, Hays is a committed pacifist. He makes his position clear in ""The Moral Vision of the New Testament,"" in which he argues that Jesus Christ taught his disciples to"
"R. Schnackenburg suggested that ""John"" was an otherwise unknown resident of Jerusalem who was in Jesus' circle of friends. The ""Gospel of Philip"" and the ""Gospel of Mary"" identify Mary Magdalene as the disciple whom Jesus loved, a connection that has been analyzed by Esther de Boer and made notorious in the fictional ""The Da Vinci Code"". Finally, a few authors, such as Loisy and Bultmann and Hans-Martin Schenke, see ""the Beloved Disciple"" as a purely symbolic creation, an idealized pseudonym for the group of authors. Gnosticism scholar Elaine Pagels goes further and claims that the author himself was a"
"professor in the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design, created the ambigram featured on the cover of Dan Brown's Angels & Demons; a number of other ambigrams served as the central focus of the book and its corresponding film. It is believed Prof. Langdon was the inspiration for the name of the lead character, played by Tom Hanks in the film adaptation. Howard Benson, a Drexel alumnus and a music producer associated with Hoobastank, Creed and Kelly Clarkson, teaches a music production master class at Drexel. Drexel University was a sponsor of Matthew Quick's novel ""Silver Linings Playbook,"""
"that the Grand Master prior to Leonardo was Botticelli, who had indeed had an association with Leonardo, as they were both students at the Florence workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio. The Priory of Sion story and the veracity of ""The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail"" was eventually debunked, and many of those involved publicly recanted, although Dan Brown continued to assert that the facts as presented were true. In portraying the Priory of Sion as ""fact"" ""The Da Vinci Code"" expanded on the claims in ""The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail"": The book also used a variation of"
"leave Rennes-le-Château to continue his priesthood in another parish incurred permanent suspension. The epitaph on Saunière's original 1917 gravestone read ""priest of Rennes-le-Château 1885-1917"". He would be virtually unknown today if not for the fact that he is a central figure in many of the conspiracy theories surrounding Rennes-le-Château. These speculations form the basis of several documentaries and books such as the 1982 ""Holy Blood, Holy Grail"" by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln. Many elements of these theories were later used by Dan Brown in his best-selling 2003 novel ""The Da Vinci Code"", in which the fictional character"
"who became liable for paying legal expenses of nearly US$6 million. Brown has been sued twice in U.S. Federal courts by the author Jack Dunn who claims Brown copied a huge part of his book ""The Vatican Boys"" to write ""The Da Vinci Code"" (2006–07) and ""Angels & Demons"" (2011-12). Both lawsuits were not allowed to go to a jury trial. In 2017, in London, another claim was begun against Brown by Jack Dunn who claimed that Justice was not served in the U.S. lawsuits. In October 2004, Brown and his siblings donated US$2.2 million to Phillips Exeter Academy in"
"Alamut, Bavarian Illuminati, Bogomils, Cabalists, Candomblé, Cathars, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Elders of Zion, Freemasons, Gnostics, Jesuits, Knights Templar, Opus Dei, Ordo Templi Orientis, Panta Rei and the Rosicrucians. ""Foucault's Pendulum"" (1988) has been called ""the thinking man's ""Da Vinci Code"""". The parchment that sparks the Plan plays a role which is similar to the parchments in the Rennes-le-Château story in Brown's novel and in ""The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail"" (1982), from which Brown drew inspiration. Eco's novel predated the ""Da Vinci"" phenomenon by more than a decade, but both novels are concerned with the"