The Shack

I will not attempt to give here a detailed review of the myriad of theological problems this book contains, but will limit myself to this: The theological implications of what he suggests about the saving nature of Christ are staggering, but since I do not claim to be a theologian or anything like that i will leave those issues for someone else.

Any book that claims to solve a theological claim as monumental in size as the problem of evil in this world and then proceeds to use simply emotional manipulation and underhanded tactics to do so has no place on a bookshelf of christian literature. Did the book make me cry? Yes. Did I find myself loving the main character as he struggled with the problem of losing his daughter, and his struggle to forgive the monster who killed her? Yes. But did this book actually attempt to make a theological argument against the problem of evil? No. It was emotional manipulation. Plain and simple.