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William Paul Young initially wrote The Shack as a way to show his children and a few close friends his religious beliefs and the path he took to spiritual fulfillment. It follows that the main theme of the book is religion, particularly Christianity. Parts of contemporary Christianity are criticized by Mack, the main character, and by God in ...
At the beginning of the novel, Mack suffers under the weight of The Great Sadness, the depression he feels at the loss of his youngest daughter, Missy, who was murdered on a family camping trip. Understandably, Mack wants negative emotions about her death to vanish. But when Mack spends a weekend with incarnations of God, the son, and the Holy ...
Following the success of The Shack, Young has gone on to pen other Christian-themed novels. In Cross Roads, a 2012 novel about a ruthless businessman who rethinks his ways after a cerebral hemorrhage brings him in contact with God, Young returns to many of the themes present in The Shack.
Mar 12, 2018 · 9. The Beauty of Unity. When we think of Christ we don’t always reflect on the stunning power that comes from the perfect unity of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, but it is picture of unity Christ desires for his church. Paul wrote to multiple bodies of believers of its paramountcy in the health of the church.
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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 ...
The Shack is a novel by Canadian author William P. Young and his first published work. Young is the son of Christian missionaries who worked in the highlands of Papua New Guinea, and he grew up alternately amid the Dani ethnic group and in missionary boarding schools before the family moved back to Canada. Having settled in the United States as ...
Feb 27, 2009 · Sunny Chung , William Paul Young. Friday, February 27th 2009. Mar/Apr 2009. Man meets God in this fictional story of the middle-aged Mack. In the telling, Mack receives a mysterious note one winter afternoon, four years into his "Great Sadness," inviting him to the shack where his youngest daughter, Missy, was murdered after her disappearance ...
