I'm reading The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis. It was a good find. It's a fiction about a series of letters of Screwtape, a high-raking devil to his young nephew and amatuer tempter Wormwood. A view of the workings of evil and their Enemy (God) in their persons/patients (us). A very clever book by Lewis who lets us understand temptation from the devil's perspective, as a review says 'reverse theology method.'
This is a very timely book. I'm on chapter 7.
C.S. Lewis is also the author of Chronicles of Narnia, which Disney is producing. Ala Lord of the Rings. Lewis, a Christian, says he was influenced (religiously?) by his close friend JRR Tolkien, author of Lord of the Rings.
Tuesday, March 22, 2005
The Screwtape Letters
I'm reading The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis. It was a good find. It's a fiction about a series of letters of Screwtape, a high-raking devil to his young nephew and amatuer tempter Wormwood. A view of the workings of evil and their Enemy (God) in their persons/patients (us). A very clever book by Lewis who lets us understand temptation from the devil's perspective, as a review says 'reverse theology method.'
This is a very timely book. I'm on chapter 7.
C.S. Lewis is also the author of Chronicles of Narnia, which Disney is producing. Ala Lord of the Rings. Lewis, a Christian, says he was influenced (religiously?) by his close friend JRR Tolkien, author of Lord of the Rings.
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Finished reading the book. As the chapters progress, it got more philosophical to a point I had a hard time comprehending, and the inclusion of the European war in the 40s got me lost for a while, which caused me to delay reading. But it's a good book altogether. There are revelations and insights about our tempter.
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