HW - Screwtape Letters Ch. 18-25 due on 4/27

Read Screwtape Letters Ch. 18-25

Complete Questions 

Directions: You do not have to include citations for these questions but each question must be answered with a minimum of two thoughtful, detailed sentences.

Questions:

Letter 18

1. Screwtape says that marriage has been built up as an escape. An escape from what?

        2. How is “one flesh” different than a “happily married couple”?

Letter 19

3. What does Screwtape mean when he says that being in love, health or sickness, age or youth, war or peace are mainly just “Raw material?” How is this point important to our lives when these things occur?

Letter 20

4. Are there male versions of the “venus type”? How would you describe it?

Letter 21

        5. What does Screwtape mean when he talks about people “making claims?”

        6. He uses “time” and “bodies” as examples, what else do we “make claims” on? Read I Corinthians 6:19-20.

        7. According to Screwtape, what is the “joke” on humans about their sense of ownership on things? Read James 4:13-17, Psalm 24:1, 100:3, and Romans 14:7-9.

Letter 22

        8. Screwtape discusses a family that “reeks” of holiness where each individual in the group grow (“make capital”) off of each other. Do you have certain friends or family members that you feel “more holy,” or “more Godly” around? If so, describe what it is like being around them and discuss why you think you get this sense when you are around them (the more specifics the better).

        9. Screwtape says “There are things for humans to do all day long without His minding in the least.” What pleasures does he mention?

Letter 23

10. Screwtape concludes the letter by saying “That’s the game,” referring to coaxing humans to believe Christianity “for some reason” other than the logical, rational truth of Chrisitanity. What are some of those other reasons people might profess to be Christians today.

Letter 24

11. Why is it spiritually dangerous to “be amused” at non-Christians?

Letter 25

12. What is the danger of striving to be different? Or, for having a passion to avoid “the Same Old Thing?”

13. What does Screwtape mean when he says “The game is to have them all running about with fire extinguishers whenever there is a flood?”