Lewis digs into the human nature, wittily and sometimes painfully revealing our too-human weaknesses, and therefore how we can try to avoid them. Though this certainly complicates things, the two infernal beings won't let it stop them. The letters cover in great detail how a human may be guided to forsake virtue and genuine spirituality and take up corruption, vice. The letters are from a senior devil named Screwtape to Wormwood, a novice devil assigned for the first time to tempt a human soul. This Bible study digs deep into each letter from Screwtape, an understudy in the lowerarchy of Hell, to his incompetent nephew Wormwood, a junior devil. This is an epistolary novel, written in the form of a series of letters. In a series of letters, Screwtape guides the young demon through the finer points of temptation, the weaknesses and foibles of human beings, and the disaster of his patient becoming a Christian. The Screwtape Letters Study Guide takes participants through a study of C.S. What if hell were organized as a fiendish bureaucracy with managers and field agents? Meet Screwtape, an undersecretary in the Lowerarchy of Hell, who has undertaken the guidance and tutelage of his nephew Wormwood, who has been assigned a human patient to secure for eternity.
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