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Summary Of The Screwtape Letters By C. S. Lewis

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C. S. Lewis takes an interesting stand point in this book. He takes what a normal Christian would usually think and twists it into a full 180 degrees. Not only does C. S. Lewis challenge Christians to take a different view of the spiritual battle taking place within the lives of every person but Lewis also causes their face to possibly grow. There are five main viewpoints that will be discussed and examined throughout this essay; Anthropology, Bibliology, Theology, Christology, and Soteriology. The definition for Anthropology is “the study of human societies and cultures and their development.” In The Screwtape Letters C.S. Lewis depicts the average human life and a person’s interactions in an extremely unique way. C.S. Lewis made sure …show more content…

C.S. Lewis took the normal point of view of life that Christians hold and flipped completely on its head. The entirety of The Screwtape Letter is about Wormwood and Screwtape’s discussion and their letters back and forth from each other. Some examples of this would be when Screwtape refers to Jesus Christ and God as “The Enemy” and refers to Satan as “Our Father”. C.S. Lewis delves into the evil aspect of the Spiritual war that is ongoing. He delves into the kind of tactics that Satan might use and turns this book into an incredible lesson on the strategy of Satan and his demons. At first glance, one might ask what use there would be in reading this book. However, the advantages that any person can glean from this lesson are so enormous that it can change the very way that Christians view the faith. Christians should be encouraged to read The Screwtape Letters because it provides a new, refreshing view about Satan and the Spiritual war that is being …show more content…

As previously stated, C.S. Lewis created a masterpiece that was written from a different viewpoint. C.S. Lewis wrote this book from a Christian viewpoint and made sure that his audience would be challenged in the natural Christian faith and would be forced to think deeply about what they really believe and why. Many people will ask why knowing the enemy would be a good thing. However, knowing the enemy is one of the best courses of actions that a Christian can take, because the Bible talks much about Satan and his evil deeds and Jesus even talks more about Hell than He ever did Heaven. From these facts it is obvious that knowing your enemy is just as important as knowing your Lord and

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Written by C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters take place in England during World War 2. The book is an epistolary novel, told in the form of thirty-one letters, written by Screwtape, a superior demon, and addressed to his nephew, a lower demon called Wormwood. In the book Screwtape responds to Wormwood’s letter as to how to get a human, called a patient throughout the novel, to shy away from Christianity and Jesus Christ, known as the Enemy”. At the beginning of the book C.S. Lewis does two things: he dedicates the book to his friend and author of the Lord of The Rings Trilogy, J. R. R. Tolkien, and quotes Martin Luther, the founder of Protestantism, and Thomas More, a Catholic saint.

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“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 This quote is the backbone of C.S. Lewis' epistolary novel The Screwtape Letters, which chronicles the letters of Screwtape, an experienced demon, to his demon nephew Wormwood, on how to best tempt a human toward unhappiness and moral failure. The story is written from a Christian perspective, but the topics addressed are largely drawn from real aspects of human nature, thus their validity is not demeaned by this presentation; rather The Screwtape Letters provides an accurate testimony on the subject from a universal point of view. Covering a broad spectrum of topics, The Screwtape Letters employs upside down, infernal logic as Screwtape's young nephew Wormwood fails or succeeds in corrupting certain areas of his “patient's” life after Screwtape advises him on how to push an advantage or withdraw from a failed area. Though Wormwood receives a myriad of lessons on the exploitable weaknesses of human nature,

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C.S. Lewis, a Christian writer from England, penned a manuscript in 1942 called The Screwtape Letters that examined the temptations presented to man by Satan. “Lewis's Screwtape Letters was certainly one of his most popular works, and by his own admission it was a work that he found easy to write” (Harwood 24). By being a Christian himself, Lewis could sympathize and identify with fellow Christians undergoing the onslaught of spiritual attacks. Christians struggle daily with the temptations of Satan similar to those that Screwtape directs his nephew, Wormwood, to employ towards the Patient. In The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis uses the character, Patient, to symbolize everyman and his struggles with overcoming temptations by showing how Screwtape attempts to conjure a plan for Wormwood to lure the Patient to the Devil’s camp with Satan’s insipid temptations of vanity,

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"One road leads home, and a thousand roads lead into the wilderness" (Lewis). Lewis saw this truism in action during his travels to RAF bases during World War II. He would speak, but more importantly, listen to the young soldiers and their chaplains. It is during these visits that many speculate he developed a clear understanding of the slippery spiritual battles invading the average person. Here, at the end of The Screwtape Letters, Lewis is now flipping the narrative.

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A theme that continuously shows in The Screwtape Letters is proving Christianity true by exploring evil. I have chosen letter four, nineteen, and twenty-one to display this theme. In letter four Wormwood is using praying as an evil. He tells Screwtape that his advice to tempt the Patient to keep pray for his mother non-specific and dull, has “proved singularly unfortunate”.

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In the book, “The Screwtape Letters” there is one regarding theme, Uncle Screwtape convincing his patient away from christianity. However, there are three main points I would like to talk about. The first one is, Screwtape will do anything and everything to convince his patient away from christianity. The following one is, Screwtape starts noticing that everything he has done isn’t working so well towards the patient and starts becoming more angry. Last but not least, .

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The Screwtape Letters The Screwtape Letters by C.S Lewis is a satirical book that gives a face to spiritual warfare. The book is set in World War II era England (Lewis 9), a time of fear, uneasiness, and bleakness. It is written as the correspondence between two demons, Screwtape and Wormwood. Screwtape writes thirty letters to Wormwood, giving him instructions and detailed ideas on how best to tempt a man only known as “The Patient”.

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While Satan, “Our Father Below,” is a self-loving, deceitful father. When everyone agrees that Lewis’s style of writing is instructive. Some say Lewis wrote the book for people to understand and feel sympathy for Satan and his followers “demons”. Lewis’s style of writing makes one better equip to reorganize Satan’s subtle deceptions in three ways: it helps people recognize distractions in our thoughts, it helps people recognize distractions

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Told in the famous C.S. Lewis The Screwtape letter, a well-known demon informs his nephew, Wormwood, of a struggle that the Christians face still today. A well lesson to all Christians, Screwtape advises Wormwood to go and let the patient talk like a parrot without discipline when in prayer. As explained by Screwtape, “When the patient is an adult recently reconverted to the Enemy’s party, like your man, this is best done by encouraging him to remember, or to think he remembers, the parrot-like nature of his prayers in childhood.”

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Lewis actually used all the truth and spiritual advice given to him by Tolkien, flipped on it its head, twisted it, and contorted it into the opposite advice. He did that, then wrote The Screwtape Letters with that reversed advice. (Andrea Monda, The Conversion Story of C. S. Lewis) C.S. Lewis wrote from his lived experience. This means, of course, that almost blow-for-blow, The Screwtape Letters is the exact guide to help Christians to know what their demonic enemies are playing at.

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The ‘deadly triage’ on the other hand is an obscure term which is comprised of three weapons: suffering, fear, and libel. This paper will focus on explaining these tactics in order to make us better aware of evil. Lesson 1: Theatricality and Deception Right off the bat, C. S. Lewis proposes the fundamental technique used by the demon Screwtape. In the preface Lewis tells of the mortal errors which can lead humanity into damnation.

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Satan’s first device to achieve this goal is to encourage selfishness and self-promotion in the hearts of men. Brooks responds to this by explaining the consequences of this attitude. Ultimately, this mentality rejects one’s need for God, and leaves people supplying for themselves on their own. Meanwhile, God remains a loving father who wants his children to cast their burdens on him.

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The biggest theme of The Great Divorce is salvation; more specifically, ensuring one’s immortal soul reaches Heaven and not Hell through the exercising correct moral choices in life and the practice of forgiving others and seeking forgiveness for your own sins. For Lewis, Heaven and Hell are not metaphoric or ideas, they are real places. In the book, Lewis develops this by having other related themes that affect salvation like, vanity vs. pride, love, the value of ideologies, faith vs. skepticism, jealousy, anger, and forgiveness.

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An interesting factor about Book 2 is that it mostly revolves around the decisions made by parties within the debate that Satan prompts in the Council of Fallen Angels. Opening the floor, he addresses those who follow him and asks their opinion on how they think the best way to initially fight God is. Those who speak are Satan himself, Moloch, Belial, Beelzebub, and Mammon. These are the devils of the Great Consult. Their opinions seem to all vary and differ from one another’s.

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