C. S. Lewis.
Photo: 1947.
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Author: Arthur Strong.
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The Screwtape Letters:
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Clive Staples Lewis (1898 – 1963), commonly called C. S. Lewis, and known to his friends and family as "Jack", was a novelist, poet, academic, Mediaevalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, and Christian apologist.
Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, he held academic positions at both Oxford University (Magdalen College), 1925–1954, and Cambridge University (Magdalene College), 1954–1963. He is best known both for his fictional work, especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Space Trilogy, and for his non-fiction Christian apologetics, such as Mere Christianity, Miracles, and The Problem of Pain.
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The Screwtape Letters, written by C. S. Lewis.
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to the publisher, Geoffrey Bles, or the cover artist.
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The Screwtape Letters is a satirical Christian apologetic novel, written in epistolary style, by C. S. Lewis, first published in book form in February 1942. The story takes the form of a series of letters from a Senior Demon, Screwtape, to his nephew, Wormwood, a Junior Tempter. The uncle's mentorship pertains to the nephew's responsibility for securing the damnation of a British man known only as "The Patient".
In The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis provides a series of lessons in the importance of taking a deliberate role, in living out Christian Faith, by portraying a typical human life, with all its temptations and failings, as seen from devils' viewpoints.
Screwtape holds an administrative post in the bureaucracy ("Lowerarchy") of Hell, and acts as a mentor to Wormwood, the inexperienced Tempter. In the body of the thirty-one letters, which make up the book, Screwtape gives Wormwood detailed advice on various methods of undermining Faith and promoting Sin in the Patient, interspersed with observations on human nature and Christian doctrine.
Wormwood and Screwtape live in a peculiarly morally-reversed world, where individual benefit and greed are seen as the greatest good, and neither demon is capable of comprehending God's love for man, or acknowledging true human virtue when he sees it.
Both The Screwtape Letters and Screwtape Proposes a Toast have been released on both audio cassette and CD, with narration by John Cleese and Joss Ackland. A dramatised audio version, by Focus on the Family [Editor: See the YouTube Link, above], was a 2010 Audie Award finalist.
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