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Clive Staples Lewis

The Screwtape Letters

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The Screwtape Letters is a Christian apologetic novel. It is written in a satirical, epistolary style and while it is fictional in format, the plot and characters are used to address Christian theological issues, primarily those to do with temptation and resistance to it. The story takes the form of a series of letters from a senior Demon Screwtape to his nephew Wormwood, a Junior Tempter. The uncle's mentorship pertains to the nephew's responsibility for securing the damnation of a British man known only as “the Patient”. In The Screwtape Letters, C. S. Lewis provides a series of lessons in the importance of taking a deliberate role in Christian faith by portraying a typical human life, with all its temptations and failings, seen from devils' viewpoints. Lewis wrote the sequel Screwtape Proposes a Toast — a critique of certain trends in British public education (Although Britain calls its major private schools “public schools”, Lewis is referring to state schools when he criticizes “public education”). Clive Staples Lewis (1898–1963) was a British novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, lay theologian and Christian apologist. He is best known for his fictional work, especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Space Trilogy, and for his non-fiction Christian apologetics, such as Mere Christianity, Miracles, and The Problem of Pain.
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128 printed pages
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Bookwire
Original publication
2022
Publication year
2022
Publisher
DigiCat
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  • ritahushared an impression6 years ago

    This is a very open minding book

  • evieshared an impression8 years ago
    👍Worth reading
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Quotes

  • bethanygamhas quoted9 years ago
    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.
  • Sandra Michaelhas quoted15 days ago
    Thanks to processes which we set at work in them centuries ago, they find it all but impossible to believe in the unfamiliar while the familiar is before their eyes.
  • Sandra Michaelhas quoted15 days ago
    you know how one can never quite overhear what He says to them

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