This Is The Shack That Job Built: Theodicy and Polytheism in William Paul Young’s Evangelical Bestseller
William Paul Young’s bestselling evangelical novel The Shack (2007) is a twenty-first century re-imagining of the Biblical book of Job, a re-imagining that strangely multiplies the number of divine beings responding to the problem of suffering. I argue that Young has inadvertently rediscovered the a...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
[2020]
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Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Year: 2020, Volume: 88, Issue: 2, Pages: 505-542 |
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Young, William P. 1955-, The shack
/ Old Testament
/ Theodicy
/ Polytheism
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| IxTheo Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism CB Christian life; spirituality KBQ North America KDG Free church |
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