The Screwtape Letters is a novel by C. S. Lewis that was first published in THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS BY C. S. LEWIS. 2 PREFACE To J. R. R. TOLKIEN “The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn.” — Luther “The devill the prowde spirite cannot endure to be mocked.” — Thomas MoreFile Size: KB. · Through this premise and Screwtape’s letters, Lewis tackles most of the common Christian paradoxes and dilemmas. He also proposes how demons might try .
At once wildly comic, deadly serious, and strikingly original, C. S. Lewis gives us the correspondence of the worldly-wise old devil to his nephew Wormwood, a novice demon in charge of securing the damnation of an ordinary young man. The Screwtape Letters is the most engaging and humorous account of temptation—and triumph over it—ever written. THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS BY C. S. LEWIS. 2 PREFACE To J. R. R. TOLKIEN "The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn." — Luther "The devill the prowde spirite cannot endure to be mocked." — Thomas More. The Screwtape Letters opens with C. S. Lewis explaining in the Preface, "There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them." Th.
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis is a classic masterpiece of religious satire that entertains readers with its sly and ironic portrayal of human life and foibles from the vantage point of Screwtape, a highly placed assistant to "Our Father Below.". The Screwtape Letters is a very important book for our times. In our secularized and materialistic society, even Christians have little awareness of the spiritual side of reality. By means of an imaginary correspondence between a senior tempter, Screwtape, and a junior devil, Wormwood, C.S. Lewis gives us. The novel consists of 31 letters written by a devil named Screwtape to his nephew, a young devil named Wormwood. The author, C.S. Lewis, notes that he has no intention of explaining how he came to acquire these letters. In the early letters of the book, Screwtape responds to the news that Wormwood is busy trying to tempt a young man, the patient, to move away from God —the Enemy, as Screwtape calls him—and embrace sin.
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