The Shack by William P. Young (Author)
The Shack
by William P. Young (Author)
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Book Details
Published on: 2007-05-01
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Binding: Paperback
256 pages
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!future.
Editorial Reviews
Review
When the imagination of a writer and the passion of a theologian cross-fertilize the result is a novel on the order of “The Shack.” This book has the potential to do for our generation what John Bunyan’s “Pilgrim’s Progress” did for his. It’s that good! –Eugene Peterson, Professor Emeritus of Spiritual Theology, Regent College, Vancouver, B.C.
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Finally! A guy-meets-God Novel that has literary integrity and spiritual daring. “The Shack” cuts through the cliches of both religion and bad writing to reveal something compelling and beautiful about life’s integral dance with the Divine. This story reads like a prayer–like the best kind of prayer, filled with sweat and wonder and transparency and surprise. When I read it, I felt like I was fellowshipping with God. If you read one work of fiction this year, let this be it. –Mike Morrell, zoecarnate.com
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“The Shack” is a one of a kind invitation to journey to the very heart of God. Through my tears and cheers, I have been indeed transformed by the tender mercy with which William Paul Young opened the veil that too often separated me from God and from myself. With every page, the complicated do’s and don’t that distort a relationship into a religion were washed away as I understood Father, Son and Holy Spirit for the first time in my life. –Patrick M. Roddy, ABC News Emmy Award winning producer
Customer Reviews
Shocked to be undone
This book was rather shocking initially, but I was soon undone by the love and compassion. I’ve ordered many copies for family and friends. And I”m eagerly awaiting their responses.
The opened heart and soul
I have just finished “The Shack.” How amazing! I cannot recommend it more highly than five stars. I would give it six if I could. How glorious if each reader would open his/her heart and soul!
A thought on grace and tolerance
After reading so many reviews 5 stars to 1 star . . . I decided to review us reviewers instead as you can find out much about this book from other’s thoughts and then reading it yourself.
I pray we find a way to have more tolerance towards one another. God finds a way to bring us Love in different ways. Some find Him through a trauma (I am a nursing student and have seen this many times), some find Him through a positive experience, some find Him through a song or a dance, it can go on and on. But I believe all of us find Him through what touches our hearts at the deepest levels. If people read this book and it happens to open the door to His love more than the Bible did, then thank God for this book! Any person worth their salt will know that the Bible is historically and divinely different than any other book. They will also know that this book is fictional *BUT* for a seeker the Bible can be very intimidating and hard to understand at first.
I know, I have been there. I had been seeking God for many years and the Bible just seemed so distant and I couldn’t understand the language of how things are written. A science-based book called “The Language of God” is what opened my door, not the Bible. It spoke to my heart in the way I had come to Love God in the beauty of DNA because that is what I understand best through my life experiences. I had to have a conceptual framework to first understand who God was before I could open up the Bible and appreciate what God was trying to tell me.
Anyone that expects a seeker or someone stuggling in their path to only look at the Bible as the ONLY way to find God is not giving out a lot of grace to people with confused minds and broken hearts and our lack of tolerance will only push them further away. I read the Bible daily now and knew all along that it is the authoritative book even though I was seeking in other sources. Please just give people some space to get there on their own, trust me - once you get a little taste of the Truth, no one will stop there, they will want more. Eventually they will get to the Bible and they will love and appreciate it more when they do.
Much love and patience and kindeness and sunshine and lollypops out there to everyone, God loves us ALL!
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