The MR Review of the The Shack

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  • R. Scott Clark
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    R.Scott Clark is the President of the Heidelberg Reformation Association, the author and editor of, and contributor to several books and the author of many articles. He has taught church history and historical theology since 1997 at Westminster Seminary California. He has also taught at Wheaton College, Reformed Theological Seminary, and Concordia University. He has hosted the Heidelblog since 2007.

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3 comments

  1. Thanks to MR for making the full review available.

    I had heard a lot about how great this book is, if it’s maybe a little fuzzy. After reading this article, however, I’m convinced that I should read the book so as to be more able to answer it. It sounds just awful. It sounds like it’s deliberately trying to undercut what we think about God if what we think is derived from Scripture.

    Is the author a Pentecostal?

  2. No, he’s not. If you take anything as worthwhile from wikipedia, the article states that he is no longer a member of any church.

    You can find numerous reviews of the book. One review that is linked at the bottom of the wikipedia article states just how great this book is for the church. So now the church is being guided by what appears to be an outsider. Swell.

    From what I have been able to learn about it, for this book to bring any comfort to anyone who has had a child killed is doubtful at best.

    Sunny’s review is as charitable as possible.

    Go to amazon.com and read a handful of the 2000 reviews of it there. It’s quite eye-opening.

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