- Fiction, Christian Apologetics, Devil, Aspect religieux
A milestone in the history of popular theology, The Screwtape Letters is an iconic classic on spiritual warfare and the dynamics of temptation.This profound and striking narrative takes the form of a series of letters from Screwtape, a devil high in the Infernal Civil Service, to his nephew Wormwood, a junior colleague engaged in his first mission on earth, trying to secure the damnation of a young man who has just become a Christian.
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Intimate, contemplative, cool and character-led.
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- contemplativerelentless
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
- rawmeticulous
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About the book
- Author
- C. S. Lewis
- First published
- June 1, 1962
- Pages
- 160
- Publisher
- Fab, G. Bles, Centauri Press, Scribner Paper Fiction
- Editions
- 88
- Language
- English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780062023179
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“My dear Wormwood, I note what you say about guiding your patient's reading and taking care that he sees a good deal of his materialistic friend.”
Clive Staples Lewis was an Irish-born British novelist, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist.
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