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It is not worth reading for the story and certainly not worth reading for the theology. And in this case, the theology just is not good enough.īecause of the sheer volume of error and because of the importance of the doctrines reinvented by the author, I would encourage Christians, and especially young Christians, to decline this invitation to meet with God in The Shack. In theory this is well and good in practice the book is only as good as its theology. This story is meant to teach theology that Young really believes to be true. There is a sense of attempted or perceived reality in this story that is missing in the others. After his daughters murder, a grieving father confronts God with desperate questions - and finds unexpected answers - in this riveting and deeply moving 1. It seeks to represent the members of the Trinity as they are (or as they could be) and to suggest through them what they might teach were they to appear to us in a similar situation. Lewis simply asked (and answered) this kind of question: “What might Christ become like if there really were a world like Narnia, and He chose to be incarnate and die and rise again in that world as He actually has done in ours?” The Shack is in a different category than these more notable Christian works. Nor can The Shack quite be equated with a story like The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe where C.S. The Pilgrim’s Progress, after all, is allegory—a story that has a second distinct meaning that is partially hidden behind its literal meaning.

But really, this is a bit of a facile comparison. It is neither as good nor as original a story and it lacks the theological precision of Bunyan’s work. Eugene Peterson says this book is as good and as important as The Pilgrim’s Progress.