Answering Criticisms of my Review of Ann Voskamp's "One Thousand Gifts"

In December 2016, I received a lengthy comment on my review of “One Thousand Gifts” by Ann Voskamp. I chose not to publish the comment at that time because to do so would have required a response. I was not sure how to approach the commenter and therefore put it aside. But I never forgot the comment's opening words:

Firstly, it's not a book of theology. 

My original review was written nearly 4 years ago and in that time I have given little thought to Ann Voskamp and her large number of followers. This week I revisited her website to see how things had changed. Less than one week ago and to coincide with Easter, she had published an excerpt from her new book. It started thus:

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Light on the Grave and the World Beyond It

Men and women are fearfully and wonderfully made. We are not made up merely of brains, and head, and intellect and reason. We are frail, dying creatures, who have got hearts, and feelings, and consciences; and we live in a world of sorrow, and disappointment, and sickness, and death. And what can help us in a world like this? ... None but He who said, “Come unto Me, all ye that labour, and I will give you rest” (Matthew 11.28). None but He who has thrown light on the grave, and the world beyond it, and has brought life and immortality to light through the gospel ...

~ J. C. Ryle