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The Shack | 
 enlarge | Author: William P. Young
Publisher: Windblown Media
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  717 reviews
Sales Rank: 8
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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 Just didn't work for me July 3, 2008
I'm glad others found this book to be profoundly important in their own sense of Christian spirituality, however for me it just didn't work. I found the images of the Holy Trinity and the essence of relationship with God to be too juvenile, too touchy-feely for my taste. I prefer something that challenges my intellect a bit more. The story was far too contrived and predictable. It didn't tug at my heartstrings in any way.
 Excellent July 3, 2008
This is one of those can't-put-it-down books. It is fiction, but who can say it can't be true. For me personally, I see God in a new light and will never look at The Trinity the same again. I will recommend this book, and have.
 another review of the reviews July 3, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
What some reviews say about the quality of the prose made me want to skip it. But so many of the other reviews object to God the Father being portrayed as female and/or to the Son being a middle eastern man that I decided I had to read it. Get this, self styled theological experts: the Bible and all sound Christian teaching teach that God is neither male or female. Does it offend you when s/he is portrayed as a man? And here's more breaking news: Jesus WAS a middle eastern man and a Hebrew. I can't believe the reviewers who seemed to think this was blasphemous. the 3 stars are just because i havent read it yet
The Shack July 2, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The more you get into the book the harder it is to put down. Unlike other books, 'The Shack' definately impacts on a personal level.
The Shack July 2, 2008
The Shack starts a little slow but this is an important part of the full impact of the book. After slowly drawing us in to the main character's deep trauma, we follow along on a journey into an intimate look at God in all three persons of the Trinity. When the journey is over, we come away with an entirely new understanding of God's love, God's mercy and God's deep desire to share life with us. I wept repeatedly but I also laughed loudly at the many astounding insights into relationship with God. The author has stunned me with the depth of revelation this story provides about loving and being loved by God. We see how our wounds are healed, our fears are removed and our anger is turned to forgiveness and love by experiencing God for ourselves. It's fiction, but it reflects the truth as well as anything I have read. Don't miss this chance to spend the weekend with the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
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