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The Screwtape Letters is a Christian apologetic novel by C. S. Lewis and dedicated to J. R. R. Tolkien.It is written in a satirical, epistolary style and, while it is fictional in format, the plot and characters are used to address Christian theological issues, primarily those to do with temptation and resistance to it.
Max McLean (born April 14, 1953) is a Panamanian-born American [1] stage actor, writer, and producer. [2] He is the founder and artistic director of the Fellowship for Performing Arts, [3] a New York City-based company that produces live theater and film from a Christian worldview.
In his later writings, some believe that he proposed ideas such as purification of venial sins after death in purgatory (The Great Divorce and Letters to Malcolm) and mortal sin (The Screwtape Letters), which are generally considered to be Roman Catholic teachings, although they are also widely held in Anglicanism (particularly in high church ...
The Screwtape Letters represent his side of the correspondence with his nephew Wormwood, as mentor to the young demon who is charged with the guidance of one man. He has a secretary called Toadpipe. The Toast is Screwtape's after-dinner speech at the Tempters' Training College and satirises American and British or English public education.
The volume also contains a follow-up to Lewis' 1942 novel The Screwtape Letters in the form of "Screwtape Proposes a Toast." The second, fourth and fifth pieces were published in the U.K. in a volume called Screwtape Proposes a Toast and other pieces (1965); the first, sixth and seventh were published in the U.K. in Fern-seed and Elephants and ...
The album was released on October 16th 2015, to act as a volume two of the band's debut album, Through the Deep, Dark Valley. [3]The album takes its title from The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis, which has every chapter of the book begin with the words "Dear Wormwood,".
Letters from the Earth, book of essays by Mark Twain; Alexander the Oracle Monger, a parody and exposé of a false prophet by Lucian of Samosata; The Screwtape Letters, by C. S. Lewis, 1943; Christian satire and humor magazine The Wittenburg Door (1971–2008) Robert A. Heinlein's novel Job: A Comedy of Justice (1984)
[citation needed] Lewis had hinted at such themes before in The Screwtape Letters, in which the senior demon Screwtape tells his nephew that their goal is "to emotionalise and mythologise their science to such an extent that what is, in effect, a belief in [demons] (though not under that name) will creep in while the human mind remains closed ...