Screwtape Letters

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I was going to start reading the screwtape letters, as I have had it lying around for a while. Is it a good book? I know its from a very different prospective. I also know that it is one of the better Christian apologetic books. What do you think?
 
It’s an excellent book, I’ve read it a few times. You could view it as a treatise on spiritual warfare.
 
It’s on my enormous “to be read” pile. I’d be in on a reading group as long as the pace is slow enough for me.
 
Joe_Brown said:
I was going to start reading the screwtape letters, as I have had it lying around for a while. Is it a good book? I know its from a very different prospective. I also know that it is one of the better Christian apologetic books. What do you think?
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It is definitely a good book. (Lewis was such a strong Christian writer that he was nearly a Catholic one). If you want a particularly Catholic take on the same subject matter (and in the same style) you may want to read Kreeft’s tribute “Snakebite Letters”.
 
Definitely read it. I found it to be humorous, perceptive and educational. 😉
 
It is perhaps the first book I would give someone who tends not to believe in a real devil, satan and hell, or to a person who feel she cannot really sin enough to merit hell because “she is a good person.”
 
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It is perhaps the first book I would give someone who tends not to believe in a real devil, satan and hell, or to a person who feel she cannot really sin enough to merit hell because “she is a good person.”
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I think it’d also be a good book for someone who doesn’t believe in God or struggles with His existence. Some of the first few letters address doubt and skepticism.
 
It’s one of the ten “books that change lives” by Matthew Kelly.

www.matthewkelly.org

Fr. Dwight Longenecker has a new book written in the style of the Screwtape Letters, called The Gargoyle Code. It’s to be read daily through Lent. I’ve got a little catching up to do…

Mimi
 
Personally, I prefer many of Lewis’ other works, like The Great Divorce and Till We Have Faces.
 
It’s an excellent book. I think it deals very well with the subject of dryness, and dryness in conjunction with temptation. This line particularly has stayed with me and has come back to me often, lately:
“Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy’s will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.”
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Powerful.

(the “Enemy” in this context is God … the speaker being a devil.)
 
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Personally, I prefer many of Lewis’ other works, like The Great Divorce and Till We Have Faces.
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You’re in good company there, while Screwtape was immediately his most popular work, CS Lewis hated writing it.

(I have simpler tastes, leave me the chronicles)
 
Awesome thanks! also another of his I want to read is mere Christianity.
God Bless! 🙂
 
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