In The
Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis provides a series of lessons in the importance
of taking a deliberate role in living out Christian faith by portraying a
typical human life, with all its temptations and failings, as seen from
devils' viewpoints. Screwtape holds an administrative post in the
bureaucracy ("Lowerarchy") of Hell, and acts as a mentor to Wormwood, the
inexperienced tempter. In the body of the thirty-one letters which make up
the book, Screwtape gives Wormwood detailed advice on various methods of
undermining faith and promoting sin in the Patient, interspersed with
observations on human nature and Christian doctrine. Wormwood and Screwtape
live in a peculiarly morally reversed world, where individual benefit and
greed are seen as the greatest good, and neither demon is capable of
comprehending or acknowledging true human virtue when he sees it.
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On February 19th at 6:00PM we continue our review of the Screwtape Letters from C.S. Lewis. We will be reviewing letter XXVIII (28).
Steve
2/16/2012