I have a tight schedule so I might need to be more brief with these next chapters. In this chapter looms the appearance of Young’s god, who appears as a woman. I struggled with my view on this. Could God appear as a woman? Would God appear as a woman? Is it wrong to cast [...]
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‘The Shack’, A Note from Philip Young: Chapter 5
Posted in The Shack, tagged Bible, The Shack, Trinity on September 16, 2009 |
‘The Shack’, A Book and a Prayer: Chapter 4
Posted in The Shack, tagged Bible, Prayer, The Shack on September 14, 2009 |
This chapter describes The Great Sadness which weighs down much of the book. To properly critique this book we have to keep in mind the overwhelming shock and sadness of the main character’s daughter being kidnapped and murdered. During these times our minds our saturated with sin. Our sinful nature tries to dominate and Satan [...]
‘The Shack’, Corrupted innocence: Chapter 3
Posted in The Shack, tagged perfect, sin, The Shack on September 6, 2009 |
This is a relatively plain chapter. Young does very little different. It seems to be mostly character development and plot enhancement. At one point Young is looking through Mack’s eyes at a sleeping Missy. He describes her as innocent. Rightly understood there is nothing wrong with one person/human acknowledging the innocence of another. We should [...]
‘The Shack’, A false gospel: Chapter 2
Posted in The Shack, tagged false gospel, gospel, heart, justice, sin, The Shack on September 1, 2009 |
This chapter introduces us to Mack before his tragedy, a man struggling with his understanding of the gospel. He may not “know” that he has the gospel wrong but Young places a false gospel on these pages without qualification. We can look first at the good aspect of this chapter – “Obviously, Nan’s nightly prayers [...]
‘The Shack’, Many small gods: Chapter 1
Posted in The Shack, tagged many gods, Maturity, small gods, The Shack on August 30, 2009 |
We continue now with the good, the bad, and the application from The Shack. In this chapter we see Mack after his great tragedy and before his meeting with god. Young again writes well, conveying the listlessness with which Mack goes about his icy day. Throughout this chapter there are references to many gods. There [...]
‘The Shack’, Mack and his god: Forward
Posted in The Shack, tagged church discipline, disrespect, good writing, justice, The Shack on August 27, 2009 |
I’ll be trying to take this chapter by chapter. There will mostly be three main sections to my posts: the good, the bad, the application. I don’t want to misrepresent Mr. Young’s book. There are points worth learning what he is teaching but many others where it is worth learning something else. I will also [...]
‘The Shack’, by William P. Young: Series
Posted in The Shack, tagged discernment, The Shack on August 25, 2009 |
The Shack by William P. Young (Wm. Paul Young) is one popular book. I have heard about it from many different sources. At one extreme is Eugene Peterson on the front cover stating, “This book has the potential to do for our generation what John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress did for his. It’s that good”. Some [...]
