...The Screwtape Letters was written by C. S. Lewis. Lewis wrote this set of letters during the Second World War. This story was a prime example of how humans are constantly bombarded by different sinful temptations. Lewis flawlessly displayed the scripture, Ephesians 6:12, throughout the entire novel. The characters and their focus on the life of one specific human allude to the struggles they face as they attempt to confuse his religious and spiritual choices. Lewis’s narrator is named Screwtape. Throughout this novel, Screwtape is the only character that speaks. The Screwtape Letters are a collection of 31 letters that Screwtape has written to Wormwood, his nephew. The reader is not allowed the letters that Wormwood has written in reply to Screwtape, but by the letters that Screwtape writes, the reader can infer how Wormwood feels and what his responses...
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...“I have one good reason why you should you walk away from temptation right now. One reason: God.Is.Better”- Francis Chan. The Screwtape Letters written by C.S.Lewis is a book about a devil named Screwtape and his nephew Wormwood. Screwtape writes letters to Wormwood to help him tempt his patient into doubting God. Lewis demonstrates that Satan introduces humans to distraction and doubt using devious but subtle tactics so that people fall farther from God. Satan diverts humankind from the Holy Spirit making humans seek the world instead of God. “It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds:in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.”(p.16) Screwtape encouraged Wormwood to mislead the patient...
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...I decided to pick letter 25 of Screwtape and align it with the social teaching of “Call to family, community, and participation.” In letter 25 Screwtape draws attention to the problem by having the patient in a social group that focuses only on Christianity. In the social teaching our friends and family are where you learn to relate with each other, sacrifice for one another and love each other. In letter 25 Screwtape explains to wormwood that he needs to take the patient mind off the temporal realities and fixate it on real life events. In the social teaching God wants us to be together as a community and look out for each other, and If we get distracted lead them back on the right path and show them the best way to go. In letter 25 Screwtape objects to his friends because they are merely christians. He would prefer them to be interested in christianity and...
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...Sonia Del Hierro Ethics 10/29/2012 The Screwtape Letters C.S. Lewis’s novel is about a man who finds happiness and meaning in life through Christianity, and, in the end, gains salvation and the presence of God upon his soul. And yet, Lewis tells this story as if it ends terribly and only gets worse from the beginning. Screwtape, a wise, elder demon corresponds, in thirty-one letters, with his young apprentice nephew, Wormwood; he gives him advice about how to go about stealing the soul of a British man from his first conversion to his redemption. Lewis raises major ethical points by fleshing out the mistakes and every day succumbing to sin of Christians. Lewis gives more than a few examples of this ordinary everyday Christian man giving into the temptation of sin, without even knowing it; thus, giving an extremely real insight to the reader’s own life and the decisions they, themselves, make. From judging people based off looks in his second letter to praying in his third letter to worrying about the future in his fifteenth letter, Screwtape endorses the very things the reader recognizes in his or her own actions in a scary, ‘is-there-a-demon-behind-me’ kind of way. Lewis points out major flaws in the Church on several different occasions, but one in which the “Church of England might have become a positive hotbed of charity and humility” (85) had it not been for the demons’ relentless labor to oppose such outcomes. Screwtape tells Wormwood that if he cannot keep his...
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...In response to the war, Screwtape tells Wormwood to give him a full account of the patient’s reactions to the war, so that they can consider whether Wormwood is better off making the patient an extreme patriot or an ardent pacifist. Following this, Screwtape warns Wormwood to not hope too much from a war. 3. The “real business” of demons it to undermine the faith and to prevent the formation of virtues. 4. What delights Screwtape about the patient’s age and profession is that the patient is of the proper age and profession to be considered for military service. Screwtape wants the patient to be as confused as possible about the war. The patient does not know if he will be called, ergo he is uncertain and susceptible to Wormwood’s efforts. Analysis:...
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