Preface & Chp 1
In the preface, Lewis reminds readers that the devil is this.
What is a liar?
This is what the devils call the person they are working on.
What is a patient?
Screwtape is this relation to Wormwood.
What is his uncle?
This war was happening as Lewis wrote The Screwtape Letters.
What is World War II?
When choosing between the past or future, the devils would rather people focus on this one.
What is the future?
He is the one writing letters to his apprentice.
Who is Screwtape?
The devils claim they have this unlikely ally.
What is the Church?
When it comes to prayer, Screwtape teaches that it is best to do this.
What is keep a person from prayer altogether?
War causes people to face the reality of death. Screwtape says the devils prefer death in this setting rather than death during war.
What is a nursing home?
Screwtape says, "There is nothing like suspense and ______ for barricading a human’s mind against the Enemy."
What is anxiety?
He is the recipient of Screwtape's letters.
Who is Wormwood?
Screwtape claims that when God changes our thoughts, emotions, motivations, and convictions, He is working from the _______ outwards.
What is the centre (center)?
Screwtape says that the simplest way to get humans to stop thinking about God is to have them think about this instead.
What is think about ourselves?
For the devils, war is _____________.
What is entertaining?
Screwtape says an important spiritual law is that our prayer life is weakened when we _____ about God instead of directly relating to God.
What is think about God?
What does Screwtape say is God's "abominable advantage?"
What is being human in the form of Jesus?
Screwtape claims that when humans are less dependent on _______, they are much harder to tempt.
What is emotion?
Screwtape wants humans to follow the advice of this famous poet to pray by composing the "spirit to love" and indulge a "sense of supplication."
Who is Coleridge?
Screwtape says the doctors, nurses, and friends help their cause when they do this as they relate to people dying in the nursing homes.
What is lie? They lie saying sickness excuses sin and they lie about the reality of death.
The devils wants humans to be _______ to their neighbors but benevolent to strangers.
What is malicious?
What does Screwtape credit for causing people to have "a dozen incompatible philosophies dancing together inside their head?"
What is media (newspapers, magazines, etc)?
The "elder brother in the Enemy's story" is referring to this story in the New Testament.
What is the prodigal son?
This is engaged with a "prayer of silence," but these are not engaged in a "devotional mood."
What are the will and intellect?
This devil sees war as a great opportunity for attacking the Christian faith, but Screwtape thinks he exaggerates.
Who is Scabtree?
Screwtape says to think of a human as a series of concentric circles. The innermost circle is the will. The next circle is the intellect. This is the outermost circle.
What is fantasy? (The devils want virtue to be in the circle of fantasy).