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| The Shack | 
| Author: William P. Young
Publisher: Windblown Media
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  857 reviews
Sales Rank: 3
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5 x 0.7
ISBN: 0964729237
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780964729230
ASIN: 0964729237
Publication Date: May 1, 2007
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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!
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 The Shack July 24, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a very good novel about grief, turning grief, suffering and depression over to God, and the healing power of forgiveness. Read only from that perspective, I have recommended this book to others. However, I have some theological reservations about the portrayal of Trinity and the need for the institutional church and the community believers. Having lost a 16-year old son in an accident, I know how important it is to have a strong community of believers to help you grieve and heal. The idea that it is just "Jesus and me under a tree" doesn't cut it. As Christians, we need a personal relationship with Jesus, but it must be within a community of dedicated followers of Christ. We also need the institutional church established by Jesus to correct errors of teaching and guard against heresies (I am not accusing Bill Young of heresy, just commenting on the importance of the institutional church).
 Must Read for anyone who wants to know the heart of God! July 24, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've read The Shack three times, and every time a few more layers of misunderstanding have fallen away concerning the heart of God for His creation! It is a life changing, paradigm shifting experience! The audio version is for those inclined not to or just too busy to sit down and read.
Relationship or theology? Sometimes you can't have both! July 24, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I would rather know God than know theology. I didn't read this book to get a theology. Theologies are a dime a dozen, but there is only one God. I thought this novel focused any reader willing to see Him on the living God who desires all men to come to a saving knowledge of Himself. Some scripture is hard to understand (or, at least, Peter thought so). This story carefully explicated some of that difficult scripture in a way that many can understand beautifully.
 Another myth of emptiness July 24, 2008
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
So here we go again. Another syrupy "Christian" book that is nothing less than a theological trainwreck.
Eugene Peterson compares this book to Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" - which is laughable. "The Shack" is shallow, quick writing with absolutely no lasting depth. By 2010 this book will be as irrelevant as The Prayer of Jabez.
Theologically, the book obliquely teaches referrant worship (p. 31), universalism (p. 224-225), and full blown Pelagianism (p. 225). It denies that Jesus was sent by the Father to die for our sins (p. 31); it denies that our lifes are lived in priority-subjection to the first commandment (p. 206-207). It even denies that, for Christians, our sins are cast "as far as the east is from the west", and that God will "remember our sins no more" (p.224.)
Christians should ignore this book in the spirit of Matthew 24:4 and 2 Timothy 4:3-4. The Jesus of the Bible is not in this book, and God was not at the author's proverbial shack.
I Enjoyed Thoroughly July 24, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book, written in an amazingly simple format, was uplifting, inspiring, and powerful. Anyone who has reached a point in their life where they wonder why life unfolds as it does and have ever questioned their faith, should read- it changed my perception forever and has a profound impact on me. I bought a copy for my sister, mother, best friend and daughter...
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