Books : The Shack: Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity
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Binding: Audio CD
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9781598594195
Format: Audiobook, CD
ISBN: 1598594192
Label: Oasis Audio
Manufacturer: Oasis Audio
Number Of Items: 7
Publication Date: July 01, 2008
Publisher: Oasis Audio
Sales Rank: 646
Studio: Oasis Audio
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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.
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It is the most incredible book I've ever read it!!! It gives you a true sense and visual image of the true nature of God.
Please do not miss the chance to read a great book!!!
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Before I had even heard of this book, I was told it would change my life. While I have never experienced something as horrific as Mack and his family do, William Young's novel did, in fact, help me reaffirm my own relationship with God.
Both tragic and inspirational, this book aims to teach, to inspire. As the narrator, Willie, explains: we should take from this story what we would like. And I choose to take from this hope, hope that forgiveness can heal us and love can overcome evil.
The death of Missy is devastating; I could hardly read the description of her disappearance and subsequent death. However, like Mack, this story helped me to heal. I felt comfort in God's own sadness; he too lost a son. Likewise, I felt happiness at this incredible, awe-inspiring presence. And, at the end, when Mack has the strength to say goodbye--properly--to his daughter, we, as readers, feel a sense of peace.
Perhaps a dream, perhaps a parable, perhaps a true experience--nonetheless, this novel challenges us to confront powerful issues in our lives. And, when we are asked to forgive--as God asks of Mack--will we, too, rise and kill all hatred with open love?
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If I wanted to brush up on theology there are a lot of great theologians who have done a much better job of explaining theology than Wm Paul Young ever will. In fact, some of his theological points are inaccurate and misleading. I would go so far as to say that Young's book is actually dangerous in that it is leading Christians in to heresy concerning the Trinity, the incarnation, free will, etc. Just a caution, don't check your brain at the door if you are going to read this book. Let Scripture and not Mr. Young inform your view of God. [...]
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I had read about the Shack in World magazine awhile back, and had wondered about it. I read it, and have some serious concerns about it. On the other hand it is easy to see the appeal it holds, because it does communicate truths in powerful ways. Much of the book has strong Biblical themes.
A good portion of the book struck me as true, but imbalanced. It seemed to be attempting to correct many false ideas and stereotypes, and went on to toss out the baby with the bathwater. It also bothered me that it went so far out of its way to pander to the other false gods of political correctness, such as the feminist movement. It may be a fine thing to destroy false religious stereotypes, but hardly at the cost of reinforcing others that are as bad or worse. An example of tossing out the baby with the bathwater... in chapter 6 we are introduced to Papa, the black woman. The point is made that both male and female are derived from God, and so appearing to Mack as a woman was to mix things up and release him from a false religious stereotype. While the truth about male and female being jointly made in the image of God is fully Biblical, this `stereotype' that the author is so quickly dismissing happens to be what Christ Himself taught us... He taught us "Our FATHER which art in heaven.." He could have said, if He chose, "Our PARENT which art in heaven.." To view God as "Father" is not a manmade stereotype, it is a picture handed to us by God Himself. In another place (pg 122) issue ... Read More
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On the strength of the blurb, "The #1 New York Times Bestseller," I purchased "The Shack." What a piece of garbage! This purports to be an encounter with God, complete in the Holy Trinity," at a shack used by a murderer and child molester. Most all of this book is a "conversation with God," as arrogant, presumptuous and ultimately, vacuous piece of claptrap as I have ever laid eyes upon. All of which is in answer to "a great sadness" suffered by the protagonist in his loss of his youngest child; a six year old girl. No true answers are given here. Rather this book with its facile theology and new age platitudes, is an affront to those of us who have really suffered such a loss.
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