Product Description

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. 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. You'll want everyone you know to read this book!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4 in Books
• Published on: 2007-05-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 256 pages

Review
"The Shack" is a one of a kind invitation to journey to the very heart of God. Through my tears and cheers, I have been indeed transformed by the tender mercy with which William Paul Young opened the veil that too often separated me from God and from myself. With every page, the complicated do's and don't that distort a relationship into a religion were washed away as I understood Father, Son and Holy Spirit for the first time in my life. --Patrick M. Roddy, ABC News Emmy Award winning producer

Finally! A guy-meets-God Novel that has literary integrity and spiritual daring. "The Shack" cuts through the cliches of both religion and bad writing to reveal something compelling and beautiful about life's integral dance with the Divine. This story reads like a prayer--like the best kind of prayer, filled with sweat and wonder and transparency and surprise. When I read it, I felt like I was fellowshipping with God. If you read one work of fiction this year, let this be it. --Mike Morrell, zoecarnate.com

When the imagination of a writer and the passion of a theologian cross-fertilize the result is a novel on the order of "The Shack." This book has the potential to do for our generation what John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" did for his. It's that good! --Eugene Peterson, Professor Emeritus of Spiritual Theology, Regent College, Vancouver, B.C.

About the Author
William P. Young was born a Canadian and raised among a stone-age tribe by his missionary parents in the highlands of what was New Guinea. He suffered great loss as a child and young adult, and now enjoys the 'wastefulness of grace' with his family in the Pacific Northwest.

Customer Reviews

Rev. Hal Crane
A very moving story and a challenge to my belief about God,Jesus and the Holy Spirit which resulted in my greater assurance of the Trinity alive and well in my present experience. I am sharing the book with my family. I only kept wishing that the daughter could have been found and alive. But the ressurection of the saints will come someday and we will celebrate all the family members that have gone to Heaven.

The Shack
I thought that this was an excellent book. I would recommend it to anyone who would like to see God in a different way.

Get it! Read it! Rejoice!
At 69 and with 40 years in the Christian ministry (Lutheran) I have wrestled with the problem of theodicy (If God is good and God is love, why is there so much pain and evil in the world?) many times. I think I am aquainted with most of the arguments, none of which entirely satisfy (including Rabbi Harold Kushner's "When Bad Things Happen to Good People") Although "fiction" Young's book is by far the most satisfying among this genre, at least for me. He takes the often thick and vague words of orthodox Christianity (eg. The doctrine of the Trinity) and turns them into a story which all of us can understand and believe. Forget the issues of "inerrancy" and "literalism." When you get done, at least if you consider yourself a Christian, you'll find yourself saying, "Yes, this story is true! Now I know why I can let myself be joyful, hope-filled, loving and free."