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| The Shack | 
 enlarge | Author: William P. Young
Publisher: Windblown Media
Category: Book
List Price: $14.99
Buy New: $7.15
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1993 reviews
Sales Rank: 8
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.8
ISBN: 0964729237
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780964729230
ASIN: 0964729237
Publication Date: July 1, 2008
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| Customer Reviews:
the shack November 28, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I really enjoyed the visualization of God in three persons, as quite the unexpected identities. The sad part didn't make the book less valuable, because the journey is to God.
 UGH November 28, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Papa talking to Mack said, "I'm not who you think I am MacKenzie."
HA-HA! Satan always outs himself!
This book was blasphemous. The least disturbing part was that God the Father was portrayed as a woman.
It being sold in so many Christian bookstores and promoted by Christians leaves this book opened to being critiqued legitimately by Christians who actually love the God of the bible, not the god of their own deceived hearts.
Those who love this book can say it is fiction, but too many people have claimed the writings have changed their lives and brought them closer to God. True Chistians must be bothered by the lies, lies, lies about the character of God.
 Wake Up November 28, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book is just a book, it is written as a story and to show that we need a relationship with God not just religion. People need to stop taking everything so straight forward. It is fiction. It is a heart warming story of struggle and finding your way back to God.
Never thought I'd say it, but this book touched my soul November 28, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I never, never would have thought that I would tell ANYONE that a book touched my soul. I am too rational, too in control, too much the skeptic to ever let such a thing happen-- especially by a popular paperback that I saw, at first, as just a little too Christian-y, even for me, a believer.
This book's tale of a personal relationship with God is so honest, full of love and spirit, that I couldn't keep my guard up while reading it. I could cite any number of nitpicks, but in the end, they don't matter. This book articulates relationship with a loving God, and offers the radical idea that power, control, hierarchy, domination, and violence are all human creations, all too often furthered by organized religion, and unrelated to a God who is unconditional love, affirmation of relationships, and true healing. For some reason, I went right to the one-star reviews on Amazon, to see what the book's critics are saying. It's the same old stuff: Biblical verses cited out of context, defending the indefensible actions of power, domination, and hierarchy undertaken, not by God or God's church but by humans' churches and other institutions seeking to substitute human definitions of good and evil for God's radical, un-judging, all-loving grace. The notion that one can live freely, wholly, joyously, in relationship to God, if only one gives up one's clinging to a false sense of control-- give up the illusion of control over one's own life and over others--is so fundamentally transformative, one must experience it to understand it. I am only beginning to grapple with it myself, and already my life is changing so wonderfully. Read the book!
I have only one quibble with this book, at least, only one which amounts to more than a nitpick. The book's vision of God is entirely personal and not at all concerned with public life. At one point, the book features God dismissing politics and economics along with much of organized religion as human institutions far removed from God's message of relationship rather than hierarchy. I agree, but was disappointed at the absence of discussion of Jesus' active, political resistance against systems of domination and control, specifically Rome. Jesus died because he refused to submit to the Roman Empire's use of fear, intimidation, myth-making, and murder to crush its colonies and destroy the will of those that would resist it. Jesus' message is a radically political one, in that he up-ended the Empire's hierarchy of power and ultimately faced a torturous death rather than submit. As a modern-day, left-leaning, liberation-theology-type Christian, I found the absence of this message of radical and, yes, political resistance to systems of power, hierarchy, domination, and control to be a major oversight in the book. God does indeed love us unconditionally, but that does not mean we should surrender our power in this world to resist systems of domination and control, including those perpetuated in God's name, even-- or should I say especially-- those perpetuated in Jesus' name.
But while this book lacks the radical, agitational, and yes, political message of the Biblical Jesus, it captures, better than anything else I've ever read, God's true vision (as expressed by Jesus' life and death) of a world that is a web of personal relationships, with no fear, hierarchy, intimidation, unquestioned authority, judgment, or false illusions of total independence from one another or from God. I can't remember the last time a book brought me to tears. This one did.
Redeeming Christianity November 27, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a book for anyone who is fed up with patriarchal narrowness. It was written as a story for the author's wife to explicate his spiritual country, not to start a theological controversy. To quote C.S. Lewis from his Narnian tales, "(God) is not a 'tame Lion'", and that is what comes across for me. Don't put God in a box; Creator and creation and our relationship with the Divine are way more complex - and perhaps more simple - than conservative religion wants to believe.
Also, I find nothing in this book that gives me pause as far as mainstream Christian theology is concerned. You have the Trinity, you have redemption, and you have a better explanation of both, along with forgiveness, than I have seen in a long time. This book redeemed Christianity for me.
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