Highlights for August 22nd – September 1st include: An unfortunate childhood loss, letters from Screwtape on gluttony and love, and the radio broadcast of the last chapter of what’s now book one of Mere Christianity.
As mentioned during a previous column last month, Lewis lost his wife to cancer. The second most significant loss for him was during his childhood, when his mother, Florence Augusta Hamilton (Flora) Lewis died
The 17th letter from Screwtape was published in The Guardian today in 1941. It dealt with gluttony in a unique way.
“One of the great, achievements of the last hundred years has been to deaden the human conscience on [gluttony], so that by now you will hardly find a sermon preached or a conscience troubled about it.”
The Screwtape Letters – XVII
(first published in The Guardian on 8/22/1941)
Highlights for August 12-21 include: A final series of radio talks, the concluding book of a series, two more talks from his initial broadcast series and a never before published essay by Lewis becoming available in 1990.
The first scholarly book by Lewis was The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition. The theme of love in a broader sense is (obviously) of great importance to him and can be
The 15th letter from Screwtape was published today (8/8) in 1941 in The Guardian. Themes include understanding Time.
“Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware of that he has them, but this is specially true of humility.”
The Screwtape Letters – XIV
(first published in The Guardian on 8/1/1941)
Today in 1941 the 14th letter from Screwtape was published in The Guardian before being in the book The Screwtape Letters.
[Screwtape Advises:] “I would make it a rule to eradicate from my patient any strong personal taste which is not actually a sin, even if it is something quite trivial.”
The Screwtape Letters – XIII
(first published in The Guardian on 7/25/1941)
This day in 1941 the 13th letter from Screwtape was published in The Guardian. Wormwood has failed again…second conversion.
[Screwtape Admits:] “I know that the Enemy [God] also wants to detach men from themselves, but in a different way. Remember always, that he really likes the little vermin, and sets an absurd value on the distinctiveness of every one of them.”
The Screwtape Letters – XIII
(first published in The Guardian on 7/25/1941)
