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The Shack | 
 enlarge | Author: William P. Young
Publisher: Windblown Media
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  466 reviews
Sales Rank: 10
Media: Paperback
Edition: first
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5 x 0.6
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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 Don't Just Pluck Blackberries! May 17, 2008
Don't let all the bad reviews put you off. This is a great book. While I don't agree with everything the author suggests about God and the Trinity, it is an extremely thought-provoking book, and cleverly plotted. I kept thinking I knew what was coming, but I kept being surprised again and again. And with the surprises came learning and acceptance.
Here are some excerpts:
"And one day, when all is revealed, everyone of us will bow our knee and confess in the power of Sarayu that Jesus is the Lord of all creation, to the glory of Papa." Well, that's straight out of the Bible. How about something a little less obvious?
"I am now fully reconciled to the ...whole world....reconciliation is a two way street, and I have done my part, totally, completely, finally. It is not the nature of love to force a relationship but it is the nature of love to open the way." If you're not just plucking blackberries, you will recognize that is nothing more than a paraphrase of John 3:16....think about it!
One more - "Does that mean...that all roads will lead to you?" "Not at all," smiled Jesus...."Most roads don't lead anywhere. What it does mean is that I will travel any road to find you." That's pretty profound, if you think about it.
Some people may be put off by the admittedly odd anthropomorphisms, but I personally did not find them any creepier than the Lord of the Hill, Goodwill, and The Interpreter in Pilgrim's Progress. Nor did I find any of the metaphorical settings less orthodox than the Slough of Despond, the Valley of Humiliation, or Doubting Castle, again from Pilgrim's Progress. In fact, The Shack offers more hope than Pilgrim's Progress, which I always thought did not have enough of God's love and amazing grace in it to be thoroughly Biblical.
If you don't "get" it, then you are just plucking raspberries! :>
thought provoking May 16, 2008
Read this book if you want something to think about- then discuss it with others who've read it. Something that gets you talking about God and your relationship with God is a good thing, in my opinion.
Warning: Read with Tissue May 16, 2008
What an incredibly beautiful and touching book. I wasn't prepared for such a unique portrait of God intermingled with a story of mystery and forgiveness. To me, it was mind-blowing, especially because I am dealing with so many similar feelings in my own life. You will pick this up and be compelled to read until you are finished. It's truly amazing.
 opened-mind beware May 16, 2008
0 out of 6 found this review helpful
Dont let this rewrite your dogma! ...take it with a grain of salt
i was worried from the first lines where it references including
soy in an extra hot beverage. Arent their studies linking high
temperature of soy product to the creation of a toxin? (like for
asparatame > 86 deg F & browning of potatoes/carbs?)
set out to do good with all your endeavors!
make it a good day!!
Loved it! Spectacular story...my husband even cried! May 16, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I'm a five-point Calvinist, TULIP all the way, entrenched in good doctrine...and I LOVED The Shack, much as I loved C.S. Lewis' writings and Tolkien's. Yes, I think most evangelical Believers will see this story for the work of fiction that it is. Most of us are intelligent enough to realize that we won't all agree fully on the finer points of systematic theology of the book. That doesn't take away from the wonder and the beauty of this story. As I heard one staunch Calvinist pastor say years ago, "I'd never discourage someone from reading Tolkien or Lewis. Certain writers, if we will allow them, soften our hardened hearts and stir our bored, lukewarm souls, even if their theology is not 100 percent accurate." Maybe we should all stop throwing the baby out with the bathwater, and stop being so afraid of our emotions! As for Young's writing style, I didn't find it to be awkward or difficult, and he's certainly easier to follow than some literary giants (ever tried to read William Faulkner, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, Samuel Beckett, T.S. Elliot, Henry James? I have. Excruciating.) What, however, do I know? I'm just a thirty-something-year-old mom of three who happens to hold two degrees in Literature and have read more dry, stale theology in my life than most people twice my age. I also lost my father suddenly when I was twenty-one. He was forty-four. Since then I have become skilled at building walls in all of my relationships, focusing on tasks and "responsibilities" rather than people themselves and our relating to Jesus. While The Shack may not have answered my questions more than the Bible has over the years, it did bring a profound sense of reassurance of God's love for His people, an encouragement to live more joyfully, and a conviction that I've spent too long being satisfied with C.S. Lewis's "mudpies," when I could've been enjoying a "holiday by the sea" with Jesus Christ. I pray that readers of The Shack will "get it," and not mistake it for a non-fiction treatise on Christianity. Go to the website for the author's comments and explanations. Afterall, literary criticism is far from complete if the author's intent, background and point of view are not considered. Any critic worth his or her salt should realize this fact, though, it seems, many modern "critics" are not truly literature students but people with computers and personal axes to grind, intent on raining on others' parades because they can't write themselves. I pray for all of the rainers out there...let the sunshine of Christ in and enjoy the book! I cried and so did my normally non-crying husband...on an airplane! He just pretended it was allergies, though he didn't pretend with me. We're both frozen-chosen Calvinists, but after reading The Shack, we both have a sense of grace and freedom that we've known in our heads to be true for many years but have forgotten how great it feels in our hearts. Let Jesus tear down those walls, folks! We love Him because He first loved us.
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