The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Screwtape Letters
Book Review: Makes you think!
Summary: 5 Stars
Ever wonder what separates us from God? This book will give you some hypothetical, all though theologically sound ideas as to how Saten and his dominion run chaos on earth. This book will make you take a look at how you think about how you are influenced by the secular world around us, and our reactions to it. Are we tempted in ways we have never thought about? It is easy to think of being tempted by money, lust, self-pity... but what about being tempted by the mundane, the obvious, the everyday? What about being tempted/preoccupied by the ails of the world at large, yet being soured by the needs of the person that lives next door to you? Does that seem to little or unnecessary? Or perhaps... if everyone chose to help and care for the person next door, then eventually the people a half of a world away would feel that influence? C.S. Lewis' novel is timeless and is must read for anyone who is finding new interest in the Christian faith, or has been a Christian and would like to understand the aspect of temptation even more.Book Review: A Christian Essential
Summary: 5 Stars
'The Screwtape Letters' is a brilliant book that should be read by every Christian or anyone else seeking to understand the nature of evil.
I first read this classic about 20 years ago. I thought it was great then and even better when I just reread it.
Written as a series of letters from a senior demon, Screwtape, to his nephew, Wormwood, this book paints an amazing picture of the tactics used to divert people from their walk with God.
As Screwtape writes: 'You will say that these are very small sins; and doubtless, like all young tempters, you are anxious to be able to report spectacular wickedness. But do remember, the only thing that matters is the extent to which you separate the man from the Enemy (Christ). It does not matter how small the sins are provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing. Murder is no better than cards if cards can do the trick.'
Lest anyone come away with the false impression that Lewis is condemning card playing, that is not the point at all. He is talking about anything diverting one from his/her relationship with God being a potential problem.
This book is full of brilliant dialogue from the senior miscreant to the junior. It is a great eye opener about the types of things that can lead one astray.
Highly recommended.
Book Review: A HUGE Eye-Opener!
Summary: 5 Stars
"The Screwtape Letters" is perhaps my most favorite C.S. Lewis book. In it we read a series of letters from a "senior" demon to his "junior" temptor. And in it we learn all about the fine and subtle tricks that demons play on us. What makes this book so amazing (and quite honestly frightening!) is that as you read you begin to mentally check off each trick that you've encountered in your OWN life! By the time I finished this book, I was so convinced of its truthfulness that I started telling all my friends and family to read it (and read it carefully!) Read it yourself -- you'll be shocked, but you won't be disappointed.Book Review: Great Book
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a masterpiece. People just don't write like this anymore. If anyone told you not to get this book they are crazy. Book Review: An everyday challenge
Summary: 5 Stars
Mr. Lewis' great achievement here is that he manages to succeed where literally thousands of fire-and-brimstone sermons have failed -- this book forces you to analyze your life against the Christian ideal. At the same time, it is carried forward by an inherent sense of hope and optimism -- Mr. Lewis doesn't fall into Milton's trap of admiring Screwtape. It also serves as a great spiritual pep-talk: you are given the secrets, if you will, of how the Enemy works...and strategies to foil him are freely confessed.
Some letters are more entertaining than others, but each finds its mark (and each found at least one mark within me, to be sure).
A friend of mine (a professed agnostic) once described this book as the most compelling case for Christianity he ever came across. I would have to agree.
This book does contain the essay "Screwtape Proposes a Toast," but it lacks the wonderful introduction (by Mr. Lewis himself) that I found in another paperback (which I have since lost). Still, it is hard to argue with _any_ version of this work.