![]() But God can meet people even in the kitschy and maudlin, just as he meets people even in suffering and tragedy (not that this justifies either). Like Kinkade’s paintings and a lot of popular praise music - and faith-based films - it’s kitschy and maudlin (and those aren’t just snobby critical terms they’re real problems in art purporting to tackle big issues). Lewis’ brilliant book, however, focuses on familiar foibles of human nature Young attempts a portrait of sorts of the divine nature. The writing is folksy and florid when Mack falls in his driveway, he doesn’t just get a bump on his head: The lump emerges “like a humpbacked whale breaching the wild waves of his thinning hair.”Īlthough an enthusiastic cover blurb from Eugene Peterson compares The Shack to Pilgrim’s Progress, generically and thematically it’s somewhat closer to C.S. It’s too didactic for drama, too literal for allegory, too artless for poetry, and too fuzzy for theology. ![]() Like many popular sensations, from Titanic to Twilight, from Dan Brown to Lee Child’s Jack Reacher novels, The Shack is easy to rip apart if one has a mind to. ![]() Young, originally written for his children with no thought of a wider audience - so phenomenally popular for a few years about a decade ago? What made The Shack - a self-published Christian novel by a first-time author, William P. ![]() SDG Original source: National Catholic Register ![]()
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