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The Shack | 
 enlarge | Author: William P. Young
Publisher: Windblown Media
Category: EBooks
List Price: $14.99
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Rating:  1068 reviews
Sales Rank: 2
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Edition: first
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
ASIN: B001B8Z2S0
Publication Date: June 20, 2008
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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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 A book for salvation? August 20, 2008
Many are seeking an answer, many are seeking a way. An answer and a way to salvation. No, this book does not offer either of these, but what it offer is a way to come close to your maker and the creator of the universe.
Yes, there are discrepancies between the scriptures and the writings in these pages. However, what it does offer is more than most modern writings can offer, a chance to view our Holy Creator without the shackles of religion. In a matter of fact, questions have arisen in my own mind about the writings and my own personal upbringing and learnings of God.
As this book pertains to me, it has done more to draw me closer to my Creator, my God, my Jesus, than any writing has done up until this point.
I regularly read the Chronicles of Narnia to gain inspiration as well as JRR Tolkien's Trilogy. Repeatedly, both have help me uncover new meanings and answers in my own life as accordance with scripture, and both leave me uplifted. However, both of these works rarely bring me to a closer relationship with God. The Shack accomplishes this in a short story.
It took nearly a week to read through the roughly 249 pages in this book. Not that it is a difficult read, but I needed time to search my own soul as I read through the pages. This writing dragged me through the most tumultuous times of my own life as well as the hero's, and helped me to find a new relationship with God, the Creator, as no work has ever done before.
This work has helped me to create a new relationship with my God, my Creator. I am born again, time and time over (almost every time I speak to God) but after this book, I felt born anew. I seem to understand not only God, but the relationship between Jesus, the Holy Spirit, God, and myself. I understand more about my relationship with the Holy Trinity now than I ever did before.
Not only did this book change my ongoing relationship with God, but every relationship that I encounter. My hope is that this book will do the same for my loved ones as it did for me.
As I believe that the works of John Bunyan, JRR Tolkien, and CS Lewis were inspired by the Holy Spirit, I believe that this work by Wm. Young is also inspired by the Creator as well.
It is worth a read by every hungry spirit.
Gives you much to ponder August 19, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I started this book a bit leery; generally speaking I'm not impressed by Christian fiction and often Christian non-fiction puts me to sleep. This wasn't the the best technically written book but once I got past the chapters that set up the meeting at the shack, I found it insightful and often profound. At times it was too much to take in and comprehend. I can't say I buy everything hook, line and sinker but it goes a long way to explaining things that I have accepted but never grasped. I actually got this book at the library but now I want to buy it because there are many thoughts and ideas that I want to take time to think about. The author takes on some pretty tough concepts from the Bible and was able to present them in a way that brought clarity (for me anyway).
It is definitely worth reading!
 The Cross and The Shack August 19, 2008
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
The far-and-away top-selling Christian book this summer has been "The Shack." In fact, it is currently the third top-selling book on Amazon.com for all categories.
I read "The Shack" in May. Since then, I have talked to friends who have read the book, read rave (and critical) reviews about the book, and heard of a few Christian leaders I know who have distributed the book en masse.
I feel that this book is theologically wrong on at least one deal-breaker point and, therefore, dangerous. This is especially true because novels (like "The Shack") often have a unique power to change one's "emotional mind" - often without the reader even knowing it.
Side note: It is not cool to dismiss or not care about "theology." Theology can be defined as "understanding God." It is 'reality suicide' to dismiss it because our theology forms the bedrock of everything we believe, are and do.
I am going to express my concern about "The Shack" with a single example. Arguments with a single example are often weak. Unless that example is true and critically-important.
"The Shack" twice points out that God the Father ("Papa") has nail-prints in his/her hands. The author says that God the Father was hanging on the cross as much as Jesus was, and that God the Father was right there with Jesus throughout the whole process. God the Father is then asked why the Bible quotes Jesus on the cross as saying "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" He answers that it just felt to Jesus that God the Father had forsaken Him, but it didn't really happen.
If this is true, then our sins remain unpaid for, the Bible is wrong, and the cross was a fallacy. The Bible says that when Jesus Christ died on the cross, God the Father 'made him sin' (2 Corinthians 5:21) and forsook him (Matthew 27:46). To say that God did not 'actually' forsake Jesus is to call Christ ignorant of what was really happening (which is scary). Indeed, God was the one who punished Christ. It was the Divine Paradox of history. And through it Christ conquered sin and death (John 11:25-26).
So let's be on guard with "The Shack" and everything else that comes our way. Let us not be grace-killing, nit-picking, hypocrisy-filled, division-causing armchair Christians. At the same time, let us not be easily swayed and weak-willed (2 Timothy 3:6), let us be on our guard against false teaching (2 Timothy 2:15, 2 Peter 2:1-3; 11-19), and, as our Lord exhorted us, let us be "wise as serpents and innocent as doves" (Matthew 10:16). It is the only way.
Pretentious, thinly disguised new age August 19, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
So many others have gone into the real problems with theology here I won't dwell on it but I'd like to add to the New Age references: Mack's wife-beating, alcoholic father in Jesus's company after death, people feel 'each other's light and colors', God submits to us, His 'wisdom' personified ... This was NOT a Christian book just because he included Jesus.
God didn't want to stereotype Himself by being an old Gandalf-like man but the author didn't feel manifesting God as an old, black woman (cough cough "The Matrix") isn't a stereotype? The spirit as a (wow, who would imagine) a thin, Asian woman? And Jesus was just so cool!
This book made me sick. So sickly sweet - it was such a ripoff of "The Seven People You Meet in Heaven" and that bad Robin Williams movie ("What Dreams May Come"). No character development at all - just a flimsy vehicle to expound the author's own theology. The wife character especially showed no depth whatsoever and the main character, Mack, asking such insipid, familiar questions when being in the presence of God. Yeah, God's our greens toting Mama, er, Papa and Jesus is our good buddy. Blasphemy.
Poorly written and then tied up neatly in a nice bow.
DUPED AT THE SHACK August 19, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
THE SHACK is completely devoid of Biblical wisdom and Truth - completely. Whatever took place at "The Shack" was not from the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob - let alone the God Jesus of Nazareth revealed. This is how the enemy works, disguising as an angel of light.
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