¶ … C.S. Lewis writes the Screwtape Letters
Lewis: The Screwtape Letters
In The Screwtape Letters, Lewis discusses Christianity once again, this time from the point of the demon Screwtape, who puzzles over God and cannot understand what he needs to in order to gain more knowledge. He tried to destroy faith, but he is so limited in his knowledge and understanding of God that he is not very good at what he is trying to do. He wonders about God several times throughout the book because he cannot understand that God does not win people by wooing them away from the devil and bending them to his will by his punishment, but rather he wins them to him by showing them love and allowing them to be themselves. That does not mean that there are no rules, but only that they are not turned into copies of Him in the same way that the devil would attempt such treachery.
Since this book is told from the point-of-view of Hell it is a very different look at Christianity than other books that Lewis has written...
The specific distractions Screwtape tells his nephew to use include an intellectual curiosity, things ascertained and appealing to the senses, and certain contemporary issues such as World War II. He tells Wormwood that it is best for the young man to be an extremist -- and to be extreme at anything, in whichever direction -- because in doing so there is a lack of temperance which alienates oen from
It seems to her, says Flaubert, that her being, rising toward God, is going to be annihilated in love like burning incense that dissipates in vapor. But her response during this phenomenon remains curiously erotic... The waving of the green palm leaves relates this scene to the previous scenes of sexual seduction. (Duncan para, 5) At times, the green in the novel moves from springtime to the idea of the
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