![]() ![]() Through this device, Lewis again puts his subtle imagination to the service of theology in a language that theology normally doesn’t speak: satire. Like some of Paul’s letters in the New Testament, the full conversation has to be inferred. We read the advice that Screwtape, an undersecretary in the Department of Temptation (Hell is a model of bureaucracy as perfect as the Civil Service), writes to his nephew Wormwood, but are never privy to Wormwood’s replies or questions. True to the original inspiration, the book is epistolary, though entirely one-sided. Thus was born one of Lewis’ early triumphs, The Screwtape Letters. It wandered to the point of imagining a series of letters from a senior devil to an apprentice, teaching the latter how best to tempt his assigned human. ![]() The homily was delivered by a guest and he found it painfully dull, so his mind began to wander. Lewis had been sick for weeks and was finally well enough to attend a Wednesday service at his Anglican church. It was triggered, apparently, by a boring sermon. ![]()
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