ABSTRACT
The Roman Catholic Church's critique of The Da Vinci Code focused largely on its purported distortions of history, its denial of certain constituent Christian dogmas, and on calumnies it spoke against Opus Dei. However, by framing the affair within Weber's understanding of the dynamics of legitimacy, this chapter additionally construes the Church's efforts in opposing The Da Vinci Code as a concerted bid to reinforce the ideological bulwark surrounding millennia-old structures of episcopal governance.
