![]() ![]() ![]() Without this the picture of human life is lopsided. Ideally, Screwtape‘s advice to Wormwood should have been balanced by archangelical advice to the patient‘s guardian angel. "I had, moreover, a sort of grudge against my book for not being a different book which no one could write. Lewis gave up on the idea realizing that it is easy to get into the mind of the diabolical and impossible to get into the mind of the angelic (note the ―Preface to the 2nd edition, Pp. Lewis planned to write a sequel featuring one angel encouraging a junior angel on how to be a good guardian angel. The concept for the book is one devil, Screwtape, writing to his nephew, training him how to be successful as a tempter. One can‘t help but wonder what that sermon was about on that particular Sunday morning. Lewis came up with the idea for The Screwtape Letters as he was leaving his church (Holy Trinity, Headington) after a Sunday service. The Screwtape Letters: Background IntroductionĬ.S. ![]()
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