About this title: On its first appearance, The Screwtape Letters was immediately recognized as a milestone in the history of popular theology and has since sold more than a quarter of a million editions. Now stunningly repackaged and rebranded as part of the Signature Classics range. A masterpiece of satire, this classic has entertained and enlightened readers the world overwith its sly and ironic portrayal of human life and foibles from the vantage point of Screwtape, a highly placed assistant to 'Our Father Below'. At once wildly comic, deadly serious and strikingly original, C.S. Lewis gives us the ...
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Description: New. 4 1/2 x 7. This is a new book with lightly tanned pages. A masterpiece of satire, this classic has entertained and enlightened readers the world over with its sly and ironic portrayal of human life and foibles from the vantage point of Screwtape, a highly placed assistant to 'Our Father Below. ' read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Incorporated
Date Published: 1996-07-01
ISBN-13:9781557488114ISBN:1557488118
Description: Good. Binding is tight and square. Has some highlighting. P/O name and notes are on FFEP. Crease infront cover and along spine. Has some light edge and corner wearWe recommend EXPEDITED MAIL for even faster delivery! read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
Date Published: 1983
ISBN-13:9780020867401ISBN:0020867409
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Like new. I don't think it's even been read. Very tight binding and great covers. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: Edition Unstated
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Macmillan Pub Co, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780020867401ISBN:0020867409
Description: Good+ As issued No Jacket. Corner bump, spine lean, corner creases to the covers, gift inscription on the inside cover, handling creases to the covers, and some light to moderate shopwear. "The definitive edition, containing the C.S. Lewis Preface of 1960, Screwtape Proposes a Toast, and the never-before-published Lewis Preface to the Toast. " read more
"Definite must read! You will see things in a totally different light, and it's amazing to glimpse how easily satan uses our everyday actions for his works!!!! Makes you realize how much we have to really make an effort to stay on guard against his evil plans...we can't do it alone, but have to rely on God for His strength and guidance!"
"If I didn't know anything about C.S. Lewis, and if he hadn't written a foreword to this book making his status as a Christian more than clear, I would have thought that this book was a satire.
Screwtape is an epistolary novel, a series of letters written by a senior devil of hell to his younger, more inexperienced nephew. The correspondence deals chiefly with advice to the younger devil, Wormwood, about how best to tempt his "patient" (the human to which he has been assigned) away from virtue in general and Christianity in particular. Screwtape, the elder demon, has very specific notions about human virtue and vice, and it's indicated fairly clearly that atheists go straight to hell in this either/or world, no passing Go, no collecting $200.
As a fairly ardent non-believer and frequent critic of Christianity myself, I found a lot of this a little heavy-handed. I still enjoyed the book, however, as a well-written piece about the nature of man, good, evil, and God."
"Such an interesting book! I actually listened to this on disc during my daily commute and I will listen to it again to glean more from it. Very thought-provoking approach to understanding how temptation works and what tactics the devil uses to drag mortals down to his misery.
One take-away I valued, even though it has no doctrinal foundation, was the thought of having a specific demon assigned to me by the Father Below to get to know my every flaw and strength and exploit that knowledge. Then, consider the thought of multiple demons working in concert - on me and on my spouse or on a colleague or child - to confuse, tempt, and ultimately damn. That concept and perspective helps me see temptations differently and more consciously try to overcome them."
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