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 enlarge | Author: William P. Young
Publisher: Windblown Media
Category: Book
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Rating:  2250 reviews
Sales Rank: 5
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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 Inspiration at it's best January 6, 2009
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Next to the Bible, The Shack is the most inspirational book that I have ever read. When you meet Papa in the shack, a personal relationship with God is renewed or reborn. I try to give a copy of this book to everyone that touches my life.
Soul Food January 6, 2009
The book's opening fateful tale immediately takes you captive and doesn't release you until the final page, if even then. The revelations of God's nature and character are unforgettable. It can reach across every divide - generations, denominations, cultures. Those quibbling with the book's theology do so needlessly. On every page I found a Creator/Father who exceeded in every way all I'd ever known of him. As a missionary, I've enjoyed sharing the book with many others, all of whom share my enthusiasm for the book. No doubt I'll be recommending the book the rest of my life...
 HMMM...THE CONFLICT ARISES January 6, 2009
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I cannot disagree with Nathan Creitz too much on this. There are times when I, as a seasoned Christian, was tempted to put the book down. However, mere curiosity pushed me to finish it. In the end, I was glad I did. I can see the point Mr. Young makes in "creating" and "recreating" the persona of God for the benefit of the main character and I agree that God is all inclusive when it comes to our personal relationships with Him. The problem is, the book leans too close to being a work of theological proportions as it leads the reader into in-depth and intimate conversations with God. While it is fiction, even I became frustrated in trying to reason with myself whether or not God would really say or do the things the author portrays. It is not, in many ways, scriptural, yet it is intriuging. I would only caution the non-believer or "young" Christian to be careful not to let this book set the foundation for which he believes and lives. Back it all up with God's Word.
I have given this book a 3 because it is interesting and has some good points, but it is also confusing and misleading to someone trying to grow in a biblically acurate relationship with God.
 TERRIBLE! January 5, 2009
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I JUST FINISHED THIS BOOK AND I WAS VERY DISAPPOINTED IN HOW THE AUTHOR TOOK GOD AND MADE HIM HUMAN. TOO HUMAN. IT IS ALMOST A MOCKERY THAT GOD THE FATHER IS A SOUTHERN BLACK WOMEN WHO LIKES TO MAKE FOOD IN THE KITCHEN! COME ON MAN! THAT JUST AIN'T RIGHT. GOD IS IN THE MIRACLE BUISNESS, NOT THE FOOD INDUSTRY.
Wickedly Late Guide to Young's Heretical Book January 5, 2009
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Young's use of suspense, dialog and conflict are spot on. All three orthodox ways to thicken the plot. Which he does masterfully. But that's where his orthodoxy stops.
What follows in the 240 odd pages is a bizarre, corny, heretical fantasy.
Now, the one question you should be asking yourself instead of charging roughshod with praise for Young is this: Where does Young get his information?
I have an idea.
His ideas are informed by men like Buckminster Fuller, Paul Tournier and Jacques Ellul-men he quoted at the start of three of his chapters-all unorthodox universalists.
To boot, Ellul was a Christian Anarchist, which probably explains where Young adopted the subversive quality of The Shack.
What the book amounts to is nothing more than speculative fiction.
In fact, Young joins a group of notable authors who've carved out Christianity, God, spirituality and Jesus in their own image: James Redfield's The Celestine Prophecies, Richard Bach's Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, Rhonda Byrne's The Secret and Eckhart Tolle's A New Earth.
And like these authors, Young expects us to take his subjective speculations as absolute truth-over and above the objective truth found in the Bible.
I understand this is fiction. But any close reader will notice Young has a theological axe to grind. He's trying to undermine orthodox Christianity.
And if Young is involved in personal ideas of God that undermine Scripture, promotes new revelation and leads believers astray...every Christian should ask themselves: who am I going to listen to--God or Young?
For full review, see:
http://www.fallenandflawed.com/wickedly-late-guide-heretical-book-shack/
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