The Screwtape Letters Study Guide includes: To help with those more difficult discussion questions, a complete Answer Guide and Scripture Reference Guide is available for free online. This complete Bible study experience is perfect for book clubs, church groups, and independent study.ĭetailed character sketches and an easy-to-read book summary provide deep insights into each character and letter of the book. Using Scripture references, discussion questions, and related commentary, The Screwtape Letters Study Guide examines each letter through a Christian lens of morality, temptation, and good and evil. The younger demon's assignment is to corrupt a young man living in London during the tumultuous days of World War II.
Screwtape, a senior demon in the bureaucracy of Hell, writes letters to his incompetent nephew Wormwood, a junior devil. The Screwtape Letters is a brilliant and satirical look at spiritual warfare and the dynamics of temptation. Not so with The Screwtape Letters Study Guide! This comprehensive Bible study workbook breaks down each of the thirty one letters into easy-to-understand segments helping you understand and be able to confidently share with others. Lewis can be a little difficult and confusing at times. 5-6).The most trusted study guide to learning The Screwtape Letters! Mere advice would be no good every sentence would have to smell of Heaven." (Pp. But who could supply the deficiency? Even if a man-and he would have to be a far better man than I-could scale the spiritual heights required, what ‗answerable style‘ could he use? For the style would really be part of the content. Without this the picture of human life is lopsided. Ideally, Screwtape‘s advice to Wormwood should have been balanced by archangelical advice to the patient‘s guardian angel. "I had, moreover, a sort of grudge against my book for not being a different book which no one could write. Lewis gave up on the idea realizing that it is easy to get into the mind of the diabolical and impossible to get into the mind of the angelic (note the ―Preface to the 2nd edition, Pp. Lewis planned to write a sequel featuring one angel encouraging a junior angel on how to be a good guardian angel. The concept for the book is one devil, Screwtape, writing to his nephew, training him how to be successful as a tempter. One can‘t help but wonder what that sermon was about on that particular Sunday morning. Lewis came up with the idea for The Screwtape Letters as he was leaving his church (Holy Trinity, Headington) after a Sunday service. The Screwtape Letters: Background IntroductionĬ.S.
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