The Shack

where tragedy confronts eternity

by William P. Young

Hardcover, 272 pages

English language

Published April 3, 2007 by Windblown Media.

ISBN:: 978-0-9647292-4-7

(5 reviews)

Mackenzie Allen Phillips' 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. - Publisher.

3 editions

Markus Gaines reviewed The Shack by William P. Young

My Review of 'The Shack'

3 stars

The Good: It's a nice view of God, far put from the fire and brimstone of many a fundamentalist's youth.

The Bad: It paints God in a bad light concerning free will and grave sin, including trying to rationalize the rape and murder of a child! The apologetics are in extremely poor taste, painting a not so nice picture of God.

General thoughts: Young's idea of The Trinity is an intriguing and refreshing concept, but the apologetics sour it to an almost unbearable degree.

All in all, I give it a 3 out of 5 in terms of rating. I like the concept of The Trinity being equal parts separate and together, sharing thoughts but having each their own personality. I can't stand the apologetics and the rationalizing shitty people doing shitty things.