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A review by thecesspit
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
4.0
Uncle Screwtape writes to Wormwood and advises him how to capture a young man's soul for eternal damnation. Using the conceit of letters and only one side of the dialogue, Lewis tells both a story and a philosophy of Christianity.
The story of the efforts to capture 'the patients' soul is a fair enough one. Using the second hand information, you build up a picture of the man's life during the start of world war two. More interesting is the concepts of humanity exposed through the distorted lens of Screwtape by CS Lewis. What makes a man good? More over, what makes a man damned? Mostly by inaction, lazyness and false pride.
How Lewis thinks society is changing (for the worse) is notable in that nothing really has changed in sixty years, despite proclaimations that we are losing something vital and true, that humanity is of far meaner spirit than in -his- time. Yet here we are still. Yet its worth pausing to think, what makes us strive, and the Christian apologist has as much to offer as Camus or Hemingway.
The story of the efforts to capture 'the patients' soul is a fair enough one. Using the second hand information, you build up a picture of the man's life during the start of world war two. More interesting is the concepts of humanity exposed through the distorted lens of Screwtape by CS Lewis. What makes a man good? More over, what makes a man damned? Mostly by inaction, lazyness and false pride.
How Lewis thinks society is changing (for the worse) is notable in that nothing really has changed in sixty years, despite proclaimations that we are losing something vital and true, that humanity is of far meaner spirit than in -his- time. Yet here we are still. Yet its worth pausing to think, what makes us strive, and the Christian apologist has as much to offer as Camus or Hemingway.