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1) Audio CD Book The Shack: Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity by Oasis Audio. People who are reading The Shack are forgetting that this is a novel, one done VERY well. I found myself inside the main character and God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit - but I knew I was reading fiction. The author has taken an idea and turned it into something that people believe is REAL - since he has done that, I believe he is a great fictional writer - basing some of his writings on fact. He has done it in a way that HELPS his fictional character and shows him the way to believe in God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit. The author shows the main characters disbelief at first, and around every turn, therefore we know that this is a piece of fiction, he questions everything that is done and said, and most of all, he makes peace within himself, in a lonely ol´ shack in the mountains. What better way to fight off grief and get through all the emotions that he´d been feeling. I loved the book.¤ 2) Audio CD Book The Shack: Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity by Oasis Audio. I am ordering "The Shack" for all of my seven children. It warmed my heart, when I needed it badly.This book enhanced my thinking of what God is and how he loves us.
My friends are also reading this book.
¤ 3) Audio CD Book The Shack: Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity by Oasis Audio. Mackenzie Allen Phillips was a comfortable neighborhood character, a good husband and father, but then--on a family vacation that went incredibly bad--his youngest daughter is abducted and brutally murdred. Mack´s life then begins a downward spiral that he calls "the great sadness." After several years of this, he receives, one day, a mysterious postcard, ostensibly from God, inviting him to a weekend at "the shack." The place where he saw the last, crushing evidence that his daughter would never be found.
And, after some heart-wrenching inner debate, he goes. And encounters God. Not God as he might have pictured him, but as a plump, maternal, black woman; and as a wraith-like Asian woman; and as a middle-Eastern looking, maybe Jewish, young man, a carpenter. Guess what? The Holy Trinity. What follows is a weekend of cosmic psychotherapy, working through the horror of Missy´s death with God´s vivid, personal help.
As others have pointed out, this is a not a theological treatise, and is not to be taken literally. It´s a parable about loss, grief, love and forgiveness. An engaging parable, and one you may find moving. Does it explain why terrible evil happens? Does it explain suffering? Of course not. It throws out some ideas, some things to think about, some deeply moving images.
The writing is somewhat repetitious, with lots of cliches, but it works. The story will grab you and you´ll be eager to turn the next page, all the way to the surprise ending. Warning: if you take religious truth in a literal or dogmatic way, you may not like this book. If you´re open-minded and flexible, you´ll find ti well worth reading. I recommend this one highly. Reviewed by Louis N. Gruber.¤ 4) Audio CD Book The Shack: Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity by Oasis Audio. The Shack presents evil perpetrated against an innocent child grippingly in the first part of the book. When it tries to represent God as three separate people it becomes romanticized, trivial and even heretical. The persons of the Trinity as represented in the book are hackneyed and trite. The theology is not creative but has been presented much better by theologians like McFague, Ruether and others who do not collapse the unity of God into three separate people. I found this book sophomoric, lacking in real depth. It popularizes ideas that were novel in liberal theology 30-50 years ago. I was deeply disappointed in this work and can´t understand why so many people loved it. Unless you are a triumphalist conservative I wouldn´t recommend this book.¤ 5) Audio CD Book The Shack: Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity by Oasis Audio. I read this book as part of a book club in a graduate level reading education course. I, myself, am a Christian and I was surprised when the other girls in the class wanted to read this book because of all the publicity it was getting. I had mixed feelings before I started it. I generally like to separate my "Christian" reading from my "regular" reading. I have had bad experiences in the past with Christian fiction-- usually it is cliche, bordering on cheesy and unrealistic, and often poorly written. I have enjoyed many Christian non-fiction books in the past, by authors like John Ortberg, but when reading fiction, I tend to stick to the classics.
That being said, I had mixed feelings about this book. Just a warning, it is very much dialogue and very little story. I do think that Young made some great points about relationships and faith. I agree that faith is personal and that it is essential to have a true deep connection with God and Young made all of this evident. His portrayal of the Trinity, although unorthodox, relayed the idea that God is a caring friend rather than a judgmental taskmaster.
The biggest problem I have with this book is that is so dialogue heavy. Young discusses some important things and makes the reader believe that Mack truly changed his life, but it ends there. The rest of the world often sees Christians as "all talk and no follow through with actions" and I think that this book reinforces this idea. The majority of the book is Mack talking with God and changing his ideas, but there is very little evidence of a changed life through actions.
I also fear that readers will not realize that this book is fiction and take it as true events that happened. I admit that at first, I wasn´t sure if it was based on a true story or not.
As a Christian, I enjoyed most of this book, because it reminded me of the way my relationship with God should be, and helped me better understand what the relationship really means. Many people are buying this book and giving it to "unsaved" friends and family members assuming that it will "save" them. People need to remember that a simple novel doesn´t have the power to do that.¤ 6) Audio CD Book The Shack: Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity by Oasis Audio. 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. ¤Page Updated: Robert N. Goolsby, 8-Nov-2008, 15985941929781598594195, 650-650-110-530-290-530-5X1-921-UGB-LSB-8 
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