Screwtape Letters

Running Down Heaven and Hell

  • Nov 24, 2008
  • Wayne Martindale
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C.S. Lewis by profession was an Oxford don for 30 years and then another six at Cambridge. He was born in Ireland and from those boarding school days until the end of his life he lived in England. He is a man who is sometimes accused of having led a …

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Screwtape On Idolatry

  • Oct 10, 2008
  • Louis Markos
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Though written during World War II, C. S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters has lost none of its social relevance or power to convict. Consider this passage from Letter VII, in which senior devil Screwtape advises his nephew Wormwood on whether it would be better to make his “patient”—the young man …

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How C. S. Lewis Expands Our View of God

  • Sep 21, 2008
  • Peter J. Schakel
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Peter Schakel’s new book, Is Your Lord Large Enough? How C. S. Lewis Expands Our View of God (InterVarsity Press, 2008), is about image. “We can know people only through mental images,” he says in the opening pages. Is this more true about a God who we haven’t seen than …

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Mere Christianity: Relic or Relevant?

  • Sep 07, 2008
  • Robert Velarde
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Published in 1952, Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis began its life as a series of radio talks first aired between 1941 and 1944 on the BBC. The book covers a lot of ground ranging from a moral argument for the existence of God to Christian ethics to theology and more. …

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