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The Shack | 
 enlarge | Author: William P. Young
Publisher: Windblown Media
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1235 reviews
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Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
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Pages: 256
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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 Shady Shack September 4, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
My cousin recommended this book to me. The longer I read, the more frustrated I became. As the plot unfolded, I thought perhaps this was going to be a book dealing with the age old question; "Why do bad things happen to good people?" However, the longer I read the more I understood this book was about the character of God, who He is, and our relationship with Him. I know this book is a work of fiction, but often people get their truths from fiction, and it could confuse some who are "babes" in the faith.
One of the first falacies that made me want to jump off my seat was when God is first introduced as a woman or rather 2 women, because God is "neither male nor female". In the Bible, the inspired Word of God, God never once refers to himself as a female. He has always revealed Himself to us as a male. God does not have feminine characteristics, women (and men) have Godly characteristics. We are created in His image, not the other way around.
The author believes God loves everyone, that we are all his children. The truth is that while we are all God's creation, we are not all his children. John 1:12 states, "all who receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the RIGHT to BECOME children of God."
This book is very new age in it's thinking. Justice is unnecessary and barbaric. Satan is not mentioned. The closest he gets to mentioning Satan is some strange reference to the "matrix" and it is implied that few if any go to hell, because God just doesn't have the heart to send anyone there.
The virgin birth is not mentioned; Jesus is limited in being fully human, and while he does mention he is also fully God, he renders Him impotent of his Godly powers and claims Jesus can only do miracles because of God (the father?) working in Him and through him - reminiscent of Luke Skywalker and the force.
He states that the entire trinity was crucified with Jesus, that Jesus only felt abandoned. We know this isn't true. Jesus cries out on the cross, "My God, My God, why has thou forsaken me? (Matt. 27:46) Jesus had to pay the FULL penalty for our sins, part of that penalty was separation from God -experiencing hell.
The author obviously has a problem with authority, religion, responsibility and law. In fact he states that in Jesus we are not under the law, everything is lawful. It is true that the law isn't going to save us, good works are like filthy rags, unable to cleanse us of sin. However, obedience to the law is evidence of the Holy Spirit in our lives. Much as an apple tree produces apples, the Christian life produces good works. Romans 6:1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? NO!
The final straw for me was when the author finally comes out and says it, you don't have to be a Christian to be saved, it's just the "best" way. Jesus says, "I am the way, the truth and the life, NO one comes to the father except through me." (John 14:6)
There is SO much more wrong with the book, I just don't have the space to cover it all.
 everyone should read September 4, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
A friend told be about the book. If you buy it, don't buy one, buy more, because you will want to pass it along. You will cry, laugh, and some area of your life will be changed.
Life-changing September 3, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
So many people kept telling me how great this book was, but I put off reading it because I'd heard that before. But this book is truly incredible. Though it's not a true story, it's based off of Paul's conversations and actual experiences with God...which are eye opening, paradigm shifting, and yet incredibly simple. I understood God's love for me in a much more tangible way after reading this...it really changed me.
 Apparently Hitting Deep Need but Poor Fiction September 3, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Mack is an average Sunday Christian who never develops any kind of spiritual life. When great pain enters his life, he discovers that his shallow Christianity does not hold up. He is invited to the place of his pain by a God that gives him the huge hugs and affirmations he longs for.
The first few chapters is poor fiction where the author sets up the story wastes our time giving us random facts and events that do little to develop his characters. The part describing the murder took me in because here the author is writing out of his pain and it feels much more real and direct as if the author was describing his own pain.
The rest of the book takes on the genre of "person who gets it"/"person who doesn't get it" conversation not unlike Brian McClaran's "A New Kind of Christian".
I kind of got board with it finding some of Papa's heady arguments not profound but rather lame. It is truly fiction with an agenda of making specific theological points as if Young was the teacher, the characters were flannel-graphs and we are the students.
The best question to ask while reading the book is "why is it meeting such a need" and what can we do to better reach the hurts and pains of people. Has our theology become so dry that we have to invent completely new metaphores to convey a God who cares?
As implied by the book, the church can grow in the area of reaching true hurt but also folks like Mack should get off of their pew and develop a spiritual life in community before they discover that their brand of Christianity will not hold up in trial.
My Comment on the Negative Reiews September 3, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
You know what's funny? It's the negative reviews with one star that makes me one to read the book, more than the postive ones. Lol. :) This reminds me of Master Oogway's words: "Sometimes one meets one's destiny on the road to avoid it" from the movie Kung Fu Panda. Lol. :) No matter how many fundamentalists dislike the book, this book will reach millions of people and transforms the lives of millions of Christians and non-Christians alike, especially those in the middle ground. No, I have not read the book yet. But judging from the negative reviews, I understand why the book is so good.
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