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The Shack | 
| Author: William P. Young
Publisher: Windblown Media
Category: Book
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Rating:  819 reviews
Sales Rank: 2
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Pages: 256
Number Of Items: 1
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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| Customer Reviews: Read 814 more reviews...
 Read the Bible July 20, 2008
David Kastner (Amarillo, TX)
If you want to understand and know the true nature and character of God then read the Bible with a broken and repentant heart and ask the Holy Spirit to reveal God the Father to you in the Name of God the Son through the power of God the Holy Spirit..The Shack is one man's opinion of God and does not even come close to the true revealed nature of God revealed in the scriptures...Be like Paul in Phillipians 3:10 and pray that I may know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings...Man's opinion outside the scriptures always ends up being politically correct and watered down...That's what happened to Dan Brown in The DaVinci Code and dare I say to "Christian" authors like Joel Osteen and Rick Warren....
 A Book that Will Change Your Life July 20, 2008
Sandie Anderson (Kansas City)
I am not fond of fiction. Therefore, when a friend suggested we do a study club together on The Shack, I was wary. Was I in for a surprise! This has been the best inspiration I have had in years. What a way with descriptive words. Young has an unbelievable ability to bring deep theological concepts into practical language. WOW! Do I feel loved and forgiven. I am changed forever. You can't believe it 'til you try if for yourself. I have told at least 40 people to read this. Try it; you won't be able to put it down.
NOT a book of theology...it is a book of art July 20, 2008
denisejh
This book was not written to discuss theology or even religion. It was written to show how God pursues us despite our hurts and sometimes anger to demonstrate His great love for us. This book shows how our preconceived notions of God (many based on man-contrived religions)are inaccurate and hinder our forming the kind of relationship He so desires to have with us. To look at this book through theological or religious eyes causes us to miss out on the intent and delight of what is related through this marvelous account of one man's struggles, healing and subsequent joy. Enjoy the book for what it is intended...a book to demonstrate His great love for us.
cannot believe I was taken in by the hype July 20, 2008
Rebecca I Truax (Marlborough, MA USA)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book should come with a warning. It is not a story about the devistation that people who brutally loose someone feel and how they endure such a thing. It is SLAM SOMEONEs VIEW OF THEOLOGY DOWN YOUR THROAT. I was hoping for a heartfelt human story. Not drivel. So disappointed.
 Some Good Thinking but Too Orthodox in Some Ideas July 20, 2008
R. Riley (Albuquerque, NM USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is an engrossing story that draws you in. The story is a literary device for presenting to readers some of the nature of the Divine that the author has come to understand from whatever personal experience or reading the discoveries of others. The book is somewhat inspiring. I would recommend that most people read it. My two outstanding concerns are that 1) it presents some of the same old theology about the allegedly uniquely Divine nature of Jesus of Nazareth (which most thinking people - not all - set aside as inadequate, uninspiring and outdated years ago); and 2) it makes the Divine a bit too "familiar" and human-like, just as the movie "God," with George Burns, did some 30 years ago. That which is both transcendent and immanent (indwelling) cannot be so easily described as the author seems to think he can. Notwithstanding those two concerns, I still would recommend this book.
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