Has anyone read this one?



http://theshackbook.com/index.html

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, author --Eugene Peterson, Professor Emeritus of Spiritual Theology, Regent College, Vancouver, B.C.

Short bio of the author, William P. Young -

Willam 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.
http://theshackbook.com/willie.html

I just picked this book up the other day at BJ's. I have not yet started reading it.
pk

Let me know what you think when you start. Costco has it on CD and I like to read while driving.

Is this going to be like a book club?

*grin* Do you want it to be?

Oh, I think this could be fun.

I'd been planning to read it anyway, but yeah, having the possibility of discussing it with others who are makes that even more attractive.

I'm thinking it might be my turn to head to Costco...

my wife purchased it and I have read much of it.

1) There are feelers out to see if it can be made into a Hollywood movie.

2) In the important aspects it is on targettheologically and how it presents God, salvation and the issues of sin, suffering and evil.

3)For those who want to criticize it, they can find minor issues to complain about. God the Father is depected as a female African American. The Holy Spirit is presented as a female of another ethnic background. Jesus alone is male and of Hebrew background.

4) The members of the God-head are presented in typical human activity. One is depected as preparing a breakfast which includes bacon. Jesus is skipping rocks across a lake. They cook and bake and act in a human mode of action while they remain members of the God-head.

5) I strongly recommend the book. There is a lot of good discussion for groups that want to discuss the meaning of God in salvation, sin and evil.

6) In general I am surprised at the amount of theology that they got right and unconcerned about minor issues that are of no real importance. There is a lot of good inthe book for those who are willing to see it.

Great to see you here as always, Gregory, and thanks for that - it makes me want to read it even more.