You can weaken his prayers by diverting his attention from the Enemy himself (God) to his own states of mind about the Enemy … in all activities favorable to the Enemy bend his mind back on itself. He encourages his protegé to do his best to turn human minds away from God to focus on ourselves-during both challenging and mundane times. Screwtape reminds Wormwood that their work has a fundamentally negative aim: to ‘fuddle,’ and not to teach (Letter 1). However, Lewis is deadly serious about the lies of the devil and their ability to obscure the truth revealed in Christ and the Scriptures. As Luther once encouraged believers to do, Screwtape is in part aimed at ridiculing the devil in his foolish delusions. Lewis’ account of an ongoing exchange between two devils is written in a mocking tone. God) and secure him as food for ‘their Father below.’ Their aim, of course, is to steal a believer from ‘the Enemy,’ (i.e.

Taking the form of 31 letters- purportedly written by a senior devil (Screwtape) to his apprentice (Wormwood)- The Screwtape Letters offers a tempter’s guide in deceiving and manipulating human ‘patients’. Nowhere is Lewis’ wisdom regarding our ongoing struggle with sin, the world and the devil more clearly on display, than in The Screwtape Letters. In all his writing, Lewis carefully-yet with brutal honesty-described the universal fallen human propensity both to be deceived and to deceive. Lewis understood in his own life the debilitating effects of sinful human-pride, which has turned from God and is bent in on itself. Later becoming Professor of Mediaeval and Renaissance literature at Cambridge, he emerged as one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century. Lewis was a veteran of the trenches and already a leading light at Oxford when he was converted to Christianity from atheism in 1929. Like no other before or since, Lewis was able to ignite the world of the imagination out of a love for Christ, and a profound knowledge of human nature. Since their publication in the 1940s, these books have ‘cleared the heads of many,’ with their creative presentation of fundamental Christians truth and razor sharp critiques of modern (secular humanist) ideology. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters and Mere Christianity, are perhaps his most well-known and widely read works. Outside of the Chronicles of Narnia, C.S.

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