Read Screwtape Letters Ch. 26-31
Complete Questions
Screwtape Test
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Letter
26
1. What is the problem confusing ‘Charity’ with ‘Unselfishness?’
2. Why would it be a “great point gained” to Satan when “a man
surrenders benefits not so that others may be happy in having them but so that
the man can be unselfish in giving them?”
3. Why might selfishness be less damaging than unselfishness? That
is, What is the “Generous Conflict Illusion” that Screwtape discusses?
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4. What is the “heads I
win, Tails you lose” argument Screwtape proposes using against the human
regarding prayer?
5. Have you ever thought
this way about prayer? If so, what have you done about it?
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28
6. Screwtape says “Prosperity knits a man to the World. He feels
that he is ‘finding his place in it,’ while really it is finding its place in
him.” How does a person and the world get “knitted together?” What is the
bond, or “knit?” That is, what things draw us to the world?
7. Screwtape tells Wormwood, “Do not let us be infected by our own
propaganda.” What propaganda is he referring to?
8. Screwtape actually suggests that the demons are trying to keep
the man safe! Why is that?
9. How does Screwtape propose attacking middle-aged adversity? How
is this different than attacking middle-aged prosperity?
10. Why does Screwtape want the human to pursue: Worldly
Advancement? (Phil 4:19) Prudent connections? (2 Cor. 6:14-17) Safety First?
(Matt. 6:27)
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11. Why, according to Screwtape, did God create a dangerous world?
12. Screwtape says that both “courage” and “cowardice” are “undisguisable”
How does being undisguisable help the human “awake from their moral
stupor? That is, what specifically does undisguise-ability do for us?
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30
13.
What are the two ways in which the word “real” can be used?
14. How can it be used against us, according to Screwtape?
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31
15. What, ultimately, happens to the patient?
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