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The Shack (Special Hardcover Edition) | 
 enlarge | Author: William P. Young
Publisher: Windblown Media
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  733 reviews
Sales Rank: 142
Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 272
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Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.7 x 0.8
ISBN: 0964729245
EAN: 9780964729247
ASIN: 0964729245
Publication Date: December 6, 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 as the shack on a wintry afternoon and walk 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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 shack July 6, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The book is about a fellow whoes daughter is murdered and he goes into depression. One day he gets an invitation to meet God at the shack where his daughter was murdered. We go with him and meet God (a black woman), as well as Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. Over the weekend visit several miraculous visions occur with insights into God's plan. It is grossly arrogant for anyone to write a novel where he expresses the thoughts of God and Jesus, directly from the lips of God. But by doing so, Mr. Young's book becomes a replacement text for the Bible. According to Mr. Young, there is a new ethos from God. Succinctly put, we are all children of God and no matter what we do it is in God's Plan for us to forgive everyone for everything they ever did. Wow! There is one Sci-Fi depicted miracle where the father of the murdered child is asked to judge others. He can't, and, as the author tells us (using God as his spokesman), we shouldn't. We should not judge persons from other cultures, or persons who may harm us or our family. There should be no judgements in God's universe. We are all one world. I am a Christian, and was upset that the book stated there are no standards or judgements. There are no rules, and even the Ten Commandments are pointless, since there are no judgements to be made against those who violate them. So, why have God at all. This is a non-Christian book. It is written by a postmodern who will not recognize that Christian values of honesty, integrity, good behavior, accountability, punishment, and redemption actually work to create stable societies and a stable world. There are rules. The book is written in a purile way with the characters eating all the time, with food that is ambrosia all the time. It is silly. The depiction of people eating is the refuge of an author who has to way to express the interplay of ideas between characters. Anyone can write about a good ham sandwich. This is the only book I have ever read that after reading it I have wanted my money back.
 Nice story July 6, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've read alot of the reviews for this book and I would just like to say its a story, not scripture. My hope for this book is that someone who does not know God will begin their journey with Him because they found this book enlightening or funny or interesting. Nothing we read outside of the Bible is a true representation of God, but may help those that have not accepted Jesus Christ as their Saviour begin their journey with Him.
 This book touched me on a level nothing has in years! July 6, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
There are not enough beautiful words in my mind to describe this book.
I want to buy it for everyone I know. My deepest wish is that this book will become a film to touch so many more lives! I envisioned it on every level.
If all the world had this understanding of God there would be a GOD Revolution of such magnitude that the Godless would fall to their knees and beg for forgiveness.
I will re read this book and keep it as my lesson in forgiveness.
Thank you William Paul Young for writing it.
You have blessed one life for sure!
The Shack by William P Young July 6, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I bought this book because I thought that it was a Christian based book. I was very disappointed in it. To me it was nothing but New Age and Hinduism and I felt like it contradicted the Bible on several points.
Shackled by Blaspheme July 6, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
The god which Young writes is not the self-contained God of the Bible. I fear Young does not know the one who is the dread sovereign of the universe. His god is a god he has created in his own image; after the likeness of creation. In fact, I would go so far as to say Young's god is a souped up finite god much like the false god of Mormonism. It is a shame that a scholar like Eugene Peterson would endorse this work. Christian need to be reminded of this admonition by the Apostle Paul,
"For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ. And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves into ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works." II Corinthians 11:13-15
(For those of you who have itching ears and believe that The Shack is a wonderful book, the above is a quote from the Bible. You know, that Big book sitting on your top shelf with dust all over it!)
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