of people who believe that? You can't say, 'Oh, sorry, you shouldn't believe it'. Now what's the church's responsibility to that group. Take everybody in those cities, they all believe it. "That's the combined populations of New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Houston. "Between 20 and 33 percent of the population say they believe the book or feel they benefited from the book," Bock said. Having read the book, and seen the public's reaction, he felt compelled to leave his ivory tower in Texas.
Until recently, Darrell Bock was an obscure evangelical scholar teaching the history of the New Testament at a seminary in Dallas. Tonight, "Nightline" brings you neither a boycott nor an attack, but rather one academic's attempt to address key parts of Brown's book. The High Court in London rejected their claims, and Brown was exonerated, even though he did concede that he had drawn upon a wealth of written material in building his narrative. The theological attacks were followed last month by a legal challenge from two authors in Britain who claim that Brown plagiarized his construction of the book's plot. Many churches and denominations have urged Christians to boycott the book on the grounds that it is blasphemous and insulting toward the very foundations of the Christian faith. In 2005, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, then a senior figure within the Vatican's office of doctrinal orthodoxy, attacked Brown's novel for being rich in "anti-Catholic" prejudice. Initially, there was an adverse response from certain sectors of the church. "The Da Vinci Code" has rarely been out of the headlines since it was published a little more than three years ago. And a little controversy hasn't harmed the book's profile, either.
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