Out of the Silent Planet – Lewis originally connected the books!.The Great Divorce – Also examines temptation.Screwtape Proposes A Toast – The Sequel.Preface to Paradise Lost – Written around the same time, Lewis deals with Milton’s Devil.The Screwtape Letters (SL) Settings Master Page.The Screwtape Letters (Dr William Simpson).The Screwtape Letters (Focus on the Family).It is not only a tremendous work of creativity, but of human psychology, as Lewis gives us insight into how we may be led away from God… The Book When Screwtape refers to “The Enemy”, he’s talking about God and “Our Father’s House” refers to Hell. Over the course of their correspondence the senior devil, named Screwtape, instructs his nephew on how to tempt his Christian (referred to as “the patient”) and ultimately secure his soul for Hell. The book is a series of letters from a senior devil to his nephew, a junior tempter. Despite all of this, it was actually one of Lewis’ least favourite books to write and strongly resisted calls for a sequel. In fact, this book got him on the cover of Time magazine. Lewis, the Christian author of the Chronicles of Narnia The book was published in 1942.The Screwtape Letters was the book which really catapulted Lewis to fame on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. It was like that, as easy as it had ever been.įrom the book “Letters of the Devil to His Nephew” by C.S. They no longer had the slightest idea that He, and only He, is the one who gives life and ends it. …it was a big concentration camp for voluntary prisoners! They accepted everything, everything, as long as they could overcome their miserable lives one more day. Their intelligence (one day the press said one thing and the next day it contradicted itself, and still they believed it all) their freedom (they did not leave their house, did not walk, did not visit their relatives. Since no one else believed and taught about eternal life and eternal death, they thought they had only that life, and they clung to it with all their strength, even if it cost them their affection (they did not hug or greet each other, they had no human contact for days and days) their money (they lost their jobs, spent all their savings, and still thought themselves lucky to be prevented from earning their bread) But there was no cure for the disease? -There was. But then, no one else got sick at that time? -No. Excellent strategy old and always current.īut what were they afraid of? Fear of being tortured? Fear of war? Fear of hunger? “And how did you manage to bring so many souls to hell at that time? -Because of fear. From the book: The ScrewTape Letters (The Devil’s Letters to His Nephew: 1942)
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