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Books : The Shack

  
: The Shack
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by: William P. Young

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Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780964729230
ISBN: 0964729237
Label: Windblown Media
Manufacturer: Windblown Media
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: July 01, 2008
Publisher: Windblown Media
Studio: Windblown Media
Sales Rank: 8



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Product Description:
Mackenzie Allen Philips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change Mack's world forever. In a world where religion seems to grow increasingly irrelevant "The Shack" wrestles with the timeless question, "Where is God in a world so filled with unspeakable pain?" The answers Mack gets will astound you and perhaps transform you as much as it did him. You'll want everyone you know to read this book!



Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Makes You Think
While I disagree with some passages of this book because they closely mirror the "gospel of inclusion" that I've heard in other places, I found this book to be thought provoking and it changed my fundamental view of God. It helped me to fully understand the consequences of man's fall in a way that I don't think I did before. It is also an interesting depiction of the Trinity. The healing of Mack's pain was amazing and I found some healing in it as well. This is an unconventional portrait of God and His love and a truly beautiful story. I highly recommend it.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Best book I have read in a long time!
This was an amazing book, one of the best I have read in a long time. Many people may not agree with all of it, i dont think that was the intention of this book. This book opened my eyes to why bad things happen in this world. It really got me to think about what I believed. I finnished this book in three days!


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - the Shack
First started this book and was not even sure I liked it, then continued and was not sure for awhile, but by the time I finished it I realized how God can be all things to all people, whatever they might need in their lives, and He knows best. Think about this book all the time, it sure has stuck with me and I love how He loves us! A great read.


Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - Heretical theology in the guise of fiction
Make no mistake about it. This is a book about theology in the guise of fiction, and it is dangerous at that. How any Christian bookstore can justify placing this on its shelves is beyond me. I have read many reviews about how people have had their view of God challenged, transformed, or, to take a word from the After Words of the book, revolutionized. Unfortunately, though, this book goes to great depths to undermine the very revelation of God Himself to the world.

...the Bible somehow left his hand... (115)

Christians believe that the sixty-six books constituting the Old and New Testaments are the sole authoritative and infallible source of God revealing Himself to us. The Bible itself exhorts the disciple of Jesus Christ to study to show himself approved. It is the "word" that is the lamp unto our feet and the light unto our paths.

The Shack, however, places communication with God on a face-to-face level that has not existed since man fell into sin in the Garden of Eden. While we as human beings might long for something tangible that we can see and hear and touch, the Bible teaches that faith is the evidence of things not seen, the assurance of things hoped for. The author associates searching the Scriptures with Sunday prayers and hymns that "weren't cutting it anymore... Cloistered spirituality... little religious social clubs" which left the main character, Mack, wanting more (66). These are not so veiled shots at not only the sufficiency of Scripture, but against the church. Young uses pejorative and prejudicial language that takes the worst presuppositions about the church and assumes them as universally true for all who might hold to a high view of the Bible.

Overall, the Bible is viewed in a negative light, as is serious study of the Bible and theology in general. Mack's seminary education is never referred to in a positive fashion.

Jesus' work on the cross in constantly cited, although I'm not sure Young ever refers to Him as "Christ" or "Messiah." Yet, His work on the cross, while extolled in the narrative, is downplayed by Mack's longing for more. "I guess part of me would like to believe that God would care enough about me to send a note," says Mack (71). Yet, Bible-believing Christians would point to a simple verse like John 3:16, or better yet, 1 John 4:9-10, to show that God's care for those He loves is summed up in the fact that "God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins." This craving for more than what is revealed in Scripture is not uncommon among many who sit in pews every Sunday, but it undermines the fact that God HAS manifested His love in Jesus Christ.

One of, if not THE, most sickening part of this book is its absolutely heretic display of the Trinity, which is historically understood as God manifesting Himself in three Persons - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit - equally, eternally, and simultaneously. Young intentionally uses multicultural and multiethnic persons to represent the Father (a large black woman named Elousia, but called ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - This felt so comfortable
this is a very special work of art i believe God placed the words of this book in the authors heart . John C