The Screwtape Letters: Letters from a Senior to a Junior Devil

The Screwtape Letters: Letters from a Senior to a Junior Devil
C. S. Lewis

A milestone in the history of popular theology, ‘The Screwtape Letters’ is an iconic classic on spiritual warfare and the power of the devil.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. Although the young man initially looks to be a willing victim, he changes his ways and is ‘lost’ to the young devil.Dedicated to Lewis’s friend and colleague J.R.R. Tolkien, ‘The Screwtape Letters’ is a timeless classic on spiritual conflict and the invisible realities which are part of our religious experience.

The SCREWTAPE LETTERS

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Screwtape Proposes a Toast

C. S. Lewis

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First published in Great Britain by Geoffrey Bles 1942

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From The World’s Last Night by C. S. Lewis

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Ebook Edition © June 2009 ISBN: 9780007332250

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Dedication (#ulink_d8215250-c91c-5b2a-9666-13f6f4dbf352)

To J. R. R. Tolkien

Epigraph (#ulink_21517526-e526-50ad-9c9c-09a8b9943b6f)

The best way to drive out

the devil, if he will not yield to texts of

Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for

he cannot bear scorn.

LUTHER

The devil…the prowde spirite …

cannot endure to be mocked.

THOMAS MORE

Contents

Cover (#uc79715e7-e2fc-518c-b8be-de12d9248294)

Title Page (#uf3d8af56-24d4-5814-90b2-a8013dfc11bf)

Copyright (#uc5dace46-bf45-5a8b-a7af-122a401ba771)

Dedication (#u08cbeb10-6d0a-5989-9381-f76fa2c14056)

Epigraph (#u04f99ac2-1766-52b7-8cf2-166c5bcae188)

Preface

Chapter 1 (#ulink_c56e3e56-9c97-5171-bae7-83ce83e36ef9)

Chapter 2 (#ulink_6a095445-d680-507e-9ff1-2c413717ff80)

Chapter 3 (#ulink_423f6bdb-0760-53a0-bcda-b99fa6b9af79)

Chapter 4 (#ulink_ad9bbc0c-6ddf-5b93-bf43-cd4818c28b6e)

Chapter 5 (#ulink_cdb6a657-0ae9-5d2c-9858-0327e9af380f)

Chapter 6 (#ulink_f6bad5a1-5d9d-57c7-a017-d52bb15304b5)

Chapter 7 (#ulink_5c928d9b-4146-5bd1-88e4-06f3a6594c44)