Number of Reviews: 7 (25 stars total)
Average Rating: 3.6/5
Average Rating: 3.6/5
Title: The Screwtape Letters
Author: C. S. Lewis
# of Pages: 209
Genre/tags: -demons -temptation -engaging -nature of sin
Mikael Vander Kooy
Rating: 5/5
The Screwtape Letters is a book of a medium-high reading level. It has a lot of complex sentences and words, but once the reader manages to move past this, it is quite an interesting read. The book goes into great detail in how humans are tempted, and it gives a lot of insight into how humans tend to act in response to the demons’ tricks. The letters are written from a senior demon to his nephew, a junior demon, and is only a one way conversation. The junior demon is trying to tempt a subject on earth and claim his soul in hell when he dies.
The Screwtape Letters is a book of a medium-high reading level. It has a lot of complex sentences and words, but once the reader manages to move past this, it is quite an interesting read. The book goes into great detail in how humans are tempted, and it gives a lot of insight into how humans tend to act in response to the demons’ tricks. The letters are written from a senior demon to his nephew, a junior demon, and is only a one way conversation. The junior demon is trying to tempt a subject on earth and claim his soul in hell when he dies.
The book is excellent for both PCR’s and group discussions, as there is a lot of key points made on every page. One of the most interesting part of the book is that a lot of the different demonic tactics that are mentioned can be very relatable to your own life. I would definitely recommend it to readers, and also urge them to not let the complex language lessen their interest.
Evaluate: Overall this book brings up intense yet good discussions among other group members because it allows us to think about the other side of christianity. Writing PCR’s for the Screwtape Letters was a little more difficult because you are discussing usually not a light subject which can be good in some ways. This book pushes you farther in your own reading comprehension as well.
Evaluation/Relevance: I really liked how this book was formatted because the chapter topics didn’t necessarily tie together, so if you didn’t understand what was happening, it wouldn’t affect the rest of the book. It definitely gives you a different outlook on Heaven and Hell. It was somewhat difficult for discussions because of all the different topics, but having the diversity of topics within the letters helped to have a diversity of opinions. Definitely a good book to read because you don't have to worry about understanding every chapter, and you learn quite a few things about Christianity.
Book: Each thirty one chapters are helpful to Wormwood. Wormwood is a devil in training, and Screwtape is helping Wormwood by sending him letters. Each letter is portraying a human life, with all of the temptations and failures. The book is from the Devils point of view. All of Screwtape’s advice is individual benefit and greed. It's seen as the greater good. No demon is able of comprehending God's love for man.
Evaluation/Relevance:
It's very good for discussion, only if you understand what's going on. Haha.
It was very connected to life, I don't think class much...or at least it didn't seem that way. I didn't finish the book.
Yes, I seemed to have learned a lot from this book.
Title: The Screwtape Letters
Author: C.S. Lewis
Number of Pages: 175
Genre/Tags: Religion, Temptation, Adult, Fiction
Sarah Tiel
Rating: 2/5
Author:
C.S. Lewis writes The Screwtape Letters. He was the most influential Christian writer of his day. He writes to all different audiences which has made him so popular. This book is written in old English, which isn’t the easiest to understand or comprehend. He is very opinionated in this book and makes his points clear.
Book:
The Screwtape Letters is about Screwtape, a head devil, working with Wormwood, his nephew and a Jr. Tempter, to tempt his patient (a human) and pull him away from the idea of God. The book is comprised of thirty-one letters that Screwtape writes to Wormwood telling him how to tempt his patient. The letters are only from Screwtape to Wormwood, so you do not get to see what Wormwood writes back. The letters do not necessarily go in order, but the book is still organized and fairly easy to follow.
Evaluate:
Most of the discussions we had for this book were all based off similar ideas. Since this book could be difficult to understand, we generally agreed on the same ideas and that helped in talking about those ideas with the input that everyone had.
Title: Screwtape Letters
Author: C.S. Lewis
Number of Pages: 175
Genre/Tags: Religious, Temptation, Adult, Relationships, Fiction
Hope Vogt
Rating: 2/5
Author:
C.S. Lewis is one of the most influential Christian writers in history. In this book Lewis portrays his thoughts on the constant war going on between good and evil from the perspective of demons. Although the book is completely fictional, he works to express the daily temptations that all people are faced with (specifically Christians). This book has been written in an old english style which makes it slightly difficult to understand at times but also makes things a little more interesting.
Book:
This book is series of letters written by Screwtape, a head devil, to his nephew Wormwood who is a Jr. Tempter. Throughout his letters he gives Wormwood advice in regards to properly and sufficiently tempting his patient (every tempter is ‘assigned’ a human). Every tempter is to do everything in their power to guarantee that their patient never overcomes temptation or strays from the side of the of the devils. All devils and tempters are working towards pleasing the the devil they all worship, which they refer to as “Our Father Below”.
This book does an amazing job of pointing out the temptations we all face but often don’t think about. We are shown some of the temptations of relationships, materialism and even some temptations within the church itself.
Evaluate:
I think this book proved to be fairly easy to talk about within group discussions. We are all faced with temptations so I think in one way or another we can all relate to the concepts of this book. The only thing I think can make the discussions a little difficult is unwillingness to share about what tempts us personally (which is very understandable). Also, many found the book to be difficult to read at times because of the old english style and periodic dryness.
The Screwtape Letters
Author: C.S. Lewis
# of Pages: 175
Genre/tags: religions, temptation, adult, relationships, fictional
Mackenzie Dieleman
Rating: ★★★★
Author: C.S. Lewis, one of the most influential Christian writers of the twentieth century, writes about “Our Father Below.” He covers many aspects of the temptations we are faced with, and does this through the idea of angels and demons.
C.S. Lews’ writing was a little hard to follow as it is written in old english. I would recommend listening to the audio books if you get the chance.
Book: The book itself is a collection of letters written by Screwtape, a head devil. He writes to his nephew, Wormwood, who is a “junior tempter.” Screwtape is teaching Wormwood how to tempt his patient (a human). Throughout the book , Wormwood’s patient grows closer, and moves further away from God as he deals with the temptations Wormwood creates in him. All though it seems like a big story, there’s a lot you can learn from this book. It covers materialism, relationships, the church, and many more relatable topics and ideas.
Evaluation: Group discussions always went well for this book because it is difficult to read, the input from classmates is very helpful. I found relating to this book very easy as it covers topics that everyone faces. Hearing from my peers about their opinions was very helpful and deepened my understanding of the book. Each letter was pretty short, which made writing a PCR and collecting prep work very easy, because if you didn’t understand a letter you could just move to the next.
Title: The Screwtape Letters
Author: C.S. Lewis
# of Pages: 175
Genre/Tags: -Christianity -Religion -Patient -Challenging
Rachel Goossen
Rating: 4/5
Author: C.S. Lewis is known to be one of the most influential christian writers of his day in the twentieth centruy. He wrote over 30 books and he continues to attract many readers each year.
He has a very interesting style of writing. This book is very challenging because his word choice is quite vast and sometimes hard to comprehend what he is saying. I like the way he writes though because its different than most authors.
Book: The book challenges christian readers to go deeper into their own faith. The main idea of the book is about two devils (Screwtape and Wormwood) that are torturing a patient (human being). Their goal is to get the patient to become a member of hell instead of heaven one day. They do this by purposely setting up bad things to happen in his life.
The book is in forms of letters between the two devils so they tend to be very sincere.
Evaluate: Overall this book brings up intense yet good discussions among other group members because it allows us to think about the other side of christianity. Writing PCR’s for the Screwtape Letters was a little more difficult because you are discussing usually not a light subject which can be good in some ways. This book pushes you farther in your own reading comprehension as well.
Title: The Screwtape Letters
Author: C.S. Lewis
Number of Pages: 185
Genre/Tags: - devil - condemnation - Hell - religious - fiction
Reviewer: Shaelynne
Rating: ⅘
Author: Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) was a Fellow and Tutor in English literature at Oxford University until he was unanimously elected to the chair of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge University. He is arguably the most influential Christian writer of his day. He has many compelling ideas and topics that are expressed in ways that make it easier to understand.
Book: Each devil is assigned a patient that they must condemn to hell. Each chapter is a letter addressed to a devil, Wormwood, from his uncle Screwtape. Screwtape is giving advice to Wormwood about how to condemn his patient to hell.
Evaluation/Relevance: I really liked how this book was formatted because the chapter topics didn’t necessarily tie together, so if you didn’t understand what was happening, it wouldn’t affect the rest of the book. It definitely gives you a different outlook on Heaven and Hell. It was somewhat difficult for discussions because of all the different topics, but having the diversity of topics within the letters helped to have a diversity of opinions. Definitely a good book to read because you don't have to worry about understanding every chapter, and you learn quite a few things about Christianity.
Title: The Screwtape Letters
Author: Clive Staples Lewis {C.S.Lewis)
Pages: 209
Ratings: 4 stars.
Author: His major contributions in literary criticism, children's literature, fantasy and acclaim. He has wrote more than thirty books, allowing him to reach a vast audience, and his works continue to attract thousands of new readers every year. He was one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century and arguably the most influential Christian writer of his day.
His style is laid back, and it doesn't flow together. So if you skip a chapter, it's alright because it doesn't connect with the next chapter. Which is really helpful sometimes because than you can skip a chapter that is difficult.
Author: Clive Staples Lewis {C.S.Lewis)
Pages: 209
Ratings: 4 stars.
Author: His major contributions in literary criticism, children's literature, fantasy and acclaim. He has wrote more than thirty books, allowing him to reach a vast audience, and his works continue to attract thousands of new readers every year. He was one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century and arguably the most influential Christian writer of his day.
His style is laid back, and it doesn't flow together. So if you skip a chapter, it's alright because it doesn't connect with the next chapter. Which is really helpful sometimes because than you can skip a chapter that is difficult.
Book: Each thirty one chapters are helpful to Wormwood. Wormwood is a devil in training, and Screwtape is helping Wormwood by sending him letters. Each letter is portraying a human life, with all of the temptations and failures. The book is from the Devils point of view. All of Screwtape’s advice is individual benefit and greed. It's seen as the greater good. No demon is able of comprehending God's love for man.
Evaluation/Relevance:
It's very good for discussion, only if you understand what's going on. Haha.
It was very connected to life, I don't think class much...or at least it didn't seem that way. I didn't finish the book.
Yes, I seemed to have learned a lot from this book.
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