The Screwtape Letters | 
 enlarge | Author: C. S. Lewis
Publisher: HarperOne
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Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.7
ISBN: 0060652934
Dewey Decimal Number: 248.4
EAN: 9780060652937
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Publication Date: February 2001
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Amazon.com Review
Who among us has never wondered if there might not really be a tempter sitting on our shoulders or dogging our steps? C.S. Lewis dispels all doubts. In IThe Screwtape Letters/I, one of his bestselling works, we are made privy to the instructional correspondence between a senior demon, Screwtape, and his wannabe diabolical nephew Wormwood. As mentor, Screwtape coaches Wormwood in the finer points, tempting his "patient" away from God.p Each letter is a masterpiece of reverse theology, giving the reader an inside look at the thinking and means of temptation. Tempters, according to Lewis, have two motives: the first is fear of punishment, the second a hunger to consume or dominate other beings. On the other hand, the goal of the Creator is to woo us unto himself or to transform us through his love from "tools into servants and servants into sons." It is the dichotomy between being consumed and subsumed completely into another's identity or being liberated to be utterly ourselves that Lewis explores with his razor-sharp insight and wit.p The most brilliant feature of IThe Screwtape Letters/I may be likening hell to a bureaucracy in which "everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement, where everyone has a grievance, and where everyone lives the deadly serious passions of envy, self-importance, and resentment." We all understand bureaucracies, be it the Department of Motor Vehicles, the IRS, or one of our own making. So we each understand the temptations that slowly lure us into hell. If you've never read Lewis, IThe Screwtape Letters/I is a great place to start. And if you know Lewis, but haven't read this, you've missed one of his core writings. I--Patricia Klein/I
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pIn this humorous and perceptive exchange between two devils, C. S. Lewis delves into moral questions about good vs. evil, temptation, repentance, and grace. Through this wonderful tale, the reader emerges with a better understanding of what it means to live a faithful life./p
Book Description
His letters are signed, save one, "Your affectionate uncle", yet Uncle Screwtape's purposes in writing to his young nephew are hardly innocent. Penned in a brisk, businesslike style, old Screwtape offers the gullible Tempter Wormword fiendishly clever advice on his most pressing concern: the winning of young lives to the devil.PFirst published in 1941, The Screwtape Letters, a perennial best seller, has earned a place in the library of classics. The truths contained in C. S. Lewis's treatise on human nature are as old as the world, but his witty observations continue to confront and challenge believers and nonbelievers alike.PThe outcome of Screwtape's correspondence is not known. But judging from his final signoff -- "Your increasingly and ravenously affectionate uncle" -- his appetite for evil has not lessened.
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 A thought-provoking peek into the mind of a senior demon December 2, 2008
Diane Gallant (Pennsylvania)
This book consists of a series of thirty-one letters written by a senior demon, Screwtape, to his young demon nephew, Wormwood. Wormword has been charged with securing the damnation of a man's soul, but he does not yet know enough about humans to carry out his task successfully. br / br /In his letters, Screwtape gives his nephew advice on the specific problems involved in this one particular case assigned to him, and while doing so he educates Wormwood more generally on a variety of human subjects. br / br /In these letters, you will read about human nature, behavior and psychology, true and false religion, society, history, earthly war and politics, and even the demons' own war against Heaven itself - and always from Screwtape's very practical point of view. br / br /And even though this book was written over sixty years ago, you will recognize our world (and maybe something of yourself) in Screwtape's letters. This book is both serious and entertaining, a cautionary must-read for Christians. br /
A theological satrical masterpiece, rich in consolation, and a number of belly laughs November 19, 2008
Lauren B. Davis (Princeton, New Jersey)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I often say that almost all of my theology comes from reading "The Narnia Suite," which I read for the first time at the age of eight, and more than a dozen times thereafter. I was particularly taken with The Last Battle, in which some people are very surprised indeed to learn that those they thought wouldn't be admitted into Aslan's Land because they fought on "The Wrong Side" of the aforementioned last battle, were in fact instantly admitted because it was their intention and their heart which was judged. br / br /When I was a little older, someone gave me a copy of "The Screwtape Letters," and I have read it probably a dozen or more times over the years as well. Brilliant, allegorical, hilarious in parts, and filled with gentle wisdom, it is a theological masterpiece. I recall the first time I the letter in which one devil brags that he will soon win his first soul for the devil because although the man continues to pray, he doesn't believe what he says any longer. The older, wiser devil releases a stream of invective and explains the younger devil is an idiot, because doesn't the know that "those are the prayers that God loves best!?" How relieved I felt, as a young person, that there was a possibility God might still embrace me, even with all my doubts. Just one of the many gifts Lewis's work offers to those of us searching for a deeper relationship with God.
Screwtape Letters November 1, 2008
Grant Scott
An excellent book which shows how the "other side" thinks. Great writing! One of my favorites!
 Agree with Most Helpful Critical Review October 27, 2008
Barry Patterson (Las Cruces, NM United States)
I was hoping this version could replace my paperback copy; however, without the C.S. Lewis preface to the 1961 edition it is incomplete.
Funny (and Serious) as Hell ! September 25, 2008
Mjoelnir (Salt Lake City, UT)
Like all Lewis' works, this book is full of insights into human life - into those aspects which are often too big and obvious for us to notice. These insights are given us directly from the enemy through the writings of a devil named Screwtape. He writes to his nephew (a novice tempter devil) about his nephew's "patient," a human struggling with faith, who is a representation of us. This book bettered my attitudes about people and life and faith by orders of magnitude! I recommend it to everyone!!
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