| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback Large Print | | ISBN: 9780964729285 | | Publisher: Windblown Media | | Publish Date: 9/2/2008 | | Buy.com Sku: 208359428 | | Item#: | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 68300 | | Dimensions (in Inches) 9H x 6.25L x 1T | | Pages: 384 |
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| | | Mackenzie Allen Phillips''s 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 this 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 wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change his life forever.
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Written by the son of missionaries for his own children, THE SHACK has become an unforeseen bestseller. Riding a wave of both rapturous word-of-mouth praise and sharp criticism, it has become a significant novel in the Christian community. The premise is simple and powerful, like a tale from the Bible itself: Mackenzie Phillips, a former seminary student, is crippled with grief over the brutal abduction and murder of his young daughter four years ago. When he receives a summons to the mountain shack where his daughter was killed, he is suspicious, but eventually discovers that he has been called to a private meeting with God, with each part of the Holy Trinity appearing in different guises. Author William P. Young uses novelistic devices to make Christian values easily understood and, more significantly, deeply felt. However, his book has stirred up controversy in its casual and modernized depiction of God, and Young's occasional disregard for Church orthodoxy.
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 | The Shack by Wm. Paul Young - Book Review By: Karen Bentley - Blogcritics.org Reviews Published on: 8/4/2009 2:04 PM | | Last month two different people recommended I read The Shack, a fiction book by Wm. Paul Young. Since it's unusual for this to happen to me, I took it as a sign from the universe that I should get down to business and read this New York Times bestseller with over seven million copies in print. As it turns out, I half-liked The Shack and half didn't. First, the like part. Young does the much-needed job of explaining why it's useful to reconsider God without the trappings of religion. He irreverently points out that the rules imposed by religion are intended to control followers rather than set them free....read the full review |
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