Here is a Catholic take, see above link...
To put a historical perspective on things, that would be like you or me writing a text now on the American Civil War and having that text later used as a primary historical source on the war. The text could not have been written by eyewitnesses, the way at least two of the canonical Gospels were.
OneHandClapping Blog has a similar take...a simple explanation for those of us who are non theological laymen...
And, of all places,Kopel at Volokhconspiracy not only points out it is historical fiction but that it seems to have been released to benefit the upand coming DaVinci Code...(Follow the money?)
Fantastic planet has a gnostic take on all of this, and links to the PDF files for it on line...so you don't have to shell out a couple bucks for the book...
Marcion, call your office, NG wants to talk to you...
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