And I'm certain bad writing is no way to advance good theology (even if this were). I'm just not sure hard thinking should be done at the expense of clear thinking. If it makes a lot of people think hard thoughts about God that they'd rather avoid, then I suppose that's fine. The writing is bad, the story is cheesy, the format is formulaic and cliche, and the theology is spotty and poorly explained at best, and downright heretical at worst. The Shack appears to me to be an ex-hippie's best attempt at amalgamating God, Dr. So, what I'm about to say is going to make a lot of people pretty angry. Invariably, they responded to my negative response with something along the lines of "You have to! It changed my life! I was full of questions, and life stunk, and then I read the book, and God made sense to me, I understood quantum physics effortlessly, and all of a sudden I could spin flax into gold!"
No fewer than forty-three people asked me "Have you read The Shack yet?"
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