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Author: William P. Young
Publisher: Windblown Media
Category: Book

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Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
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Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.8

ISBN: 0964729237
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780964729230
ASIN: 0964729237

Publication Date: July 1, 2008
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Condition: Light shelf/edge wear - several bookmarked page corners - very clean pages - I always ship immediately the next biz day!

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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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3 out of 5 stars

HMMM...THE CONFLICT ARISES January 6, 2009
I cannot disagree with Nathan Creitz too much on this. There are times when I, as a seasoned Christian, was tempted to put the book down. However, mere curiosity pushed me to finish it. In the end, I was glad I did. I can see the point Mr. Young makes in "creating" and "recreating" the persona of God for the benefit of the main character and I agree that God is all inclusive when it comes to our personal relationships with Him. The problem is, the book leans too close to being a work of theological proportions as it leads the reader into in-depth and intimate conversations with God. While it is fiction, even I became frustrated in trying to reason with myself whether or not God would really say or do the things the author portrays. It is not, in many ways, scriptural, yet it is intriuging. I would only caution the non-believer or "young" Christian to be careful not to let this book set the foundation for which he believes and lives. Back it all up with God's Word. br /I have given this book a 3 because it is interesting and has some good points, but it is also confusing and misleading to someone trying to grow in a biblically acurate relationship with God.

1 out of 5 stars

TERRIBLE! January 5, 2009
1 out of 3 found this review helpful

I JUST FINISHED THIS BOOK AND I WAS VERY DISAPPOINTED IN HOW THE AUTHOR TOOK GOD AND MADE HIM HUMAN. TOO HUMAN. IT IS ALMOST A MOCKERY THAT GOD THE FATHER IS A SOUTHERN BLACK WOMEN WHO LIKES TO MAKE FOOD IN THE KITCHEN! COME ON MAN! THAT JUST AIN'T RIGHT. GOD IS IN THE MIRACLE BUISNESS, NOT THE FOOD INDUSTRY.br /

1 out of 5 stars

Really deceptive! January 5, 2009
1 out of 2 found this review helpful

There are some truth regarding the Lord Jesus Christ, but most of it is deceving! I would not recommend this book for a young believer nor for anyone else who is not a strong believer in the Bible, for that matter, for it has so much untruth intraspersed with some truth that it would do more harm than good if the reader is not well read and informed with the Bible. I really can't see how a true believer of Christ could recommend this book and to compare it to John Bunyan's Pitgrim's Progress is really preposterous! That person could not possibly know his Bible! br /br /Flora J. Scott

4 out of 5 stars

Removing paradigms - or taking the trinity into reality. January 5, 2009
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

A refreshing approach to the Godhead and one that I know some will find difficult to receive. God can reveal Himself as He chooses and in most cases doesn't show up as the drab long haired solemn faced pictures on some walls. He came to Moses as a burning bush and to other's in different ways than that. The writer challenges you to think of God in a relational way and am delighted to find the person of the Holy Spirit personified in this book.

5 out of 5 stars

Old Theology in New Clothes January 5, 2009
0 out of 2 found this review helpful

Every once in a while a parable comes along that causes the scales to fall from one's eyes and enables him to see ancient truths in a fresh new light. THE SHACK is just such a story. While I learned "about" the Trinity during my years in the seminary, William Paul Young makes the Three Persons in One God come alive by attributing clothing, mannerisms, and words to Him. The loving inter-relationship of the Three Persons of the Trinity to Each Other--and by extension--to Mack (and all humanity) is beatifully crafted and well-executed. Young breathes life and vitality into theological truths. That he does this against the backprop of the terrible tragedy--Mack's daughter being molested and killed by a sexual predator--makes God's goodness and love stand out all the more by contrast. Compared to theological tomes, THE SHACK reads like a fresh breeze blowing through a musty old cabin.

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