Eve
2015 • 320 pages

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Eve tells the story of a woman, Lilly, who has been trough a lot of suffering, who has a supernatural encounter that transforms her life. It is an imaginative retelling and interpretation of the the story we find in Genesis about the first temptation to sin and The Fall. In doing this it falls somewhere between fantasy and spirituality/theology. (And it is very important for people to treat it as a work of fiction. Often, when Christians get bent out of shape about this kind of thing, it's because they don't understand literature and fiction.)

I like Young's conception of sin as a disease that needs to be healed as opposed to a breaking of law that will be punished. God is portrayed as healer instead of judge.

Young is most known for his first book, The Shack, and like that one, this book is a re-imagining of God/the Trinity, and God's relationship with human beings. Both show that God as Love and Healer of humanity's brokenness. I must confess I liked The Shack a lot more than this one. But I will probably read this one again too.

December 13, 2015