The Da Vinci Con: 
    Fact and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code

It's Just a Novel (Movie)

2. Story of The Da Vinci Code: Historical Secret

3. Leonardo’s Last Supper 

4. Derivation of 'Holy Grail'

5. Mary Magdalene in the Bible

6. Priory of Sion

6a. Opus Dei

7. Questions of Jesus’s True Identity

8. Non-Christian Sources

9. Christian Sources: Biblical Texts

10. Other Apostolic Texts

11. St. Ignatius  of Antioch – AD 110

12. "Alternate" Gospels: Gospel of Peter (c. AD 130)

13. St. Justin, Martyr – AD 151

14. St. Irenaeus of Lyon – AD189

15. "Alternate" Christianities

16. Gnostic Scriptures

17. The ‘Muratorian’ Canon – c. AD 200

18. Constantine

19. Council of Nicaea - AD 325

20. St. Eusebius, Bishop of Caesarea (c. AD 330)

21. Constantine’s Bibles

22. Codex Sinaiticus

23. Closing the Canon

24. Philosophical Issues: Diversity of Christianities

25. Philosophical Issues: Subjectivism of Belief

26. Theological Issue: Was Jesus married?

27. Other Historical Claims

Council of Nicaea - AD 325

• Was called by Constantine to resolve conflict within Christian Church
  
• Condemns Arianism
  
  • Named for Arius - Priest of Alexandria
    
  • Arius emphasized unity of God (Father)
    
  • Claimed that Jesus was divine, but not fully God, equal to the Father: "Word" is greatest creature, but not fully divine
    
  • Denied that God is a Trinity of Person

• Bishops overwhelmingly affirm that Jesus is the Son of God, Consubstantial with the Father
  
  • "God from God, Light from Light, True God from True God, Begotten not Made"
    
  • One in being with the Father, of the same nature (homo-ousios).
    
  • Son is not simply of a similar nature (homoi -ousios).

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