The Screwtape Letters Study Guide: A Bible Study on the C.S. Lewis Book The Screwtape Letters

by Alan Vermilye

Overview

The most trusted study guide to learning The Screwtape Letters!

Reading The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis can be a little difficult and confusing at times. Not so with The Screwtape Letters Study Guide! This comprehensive Bible study workbook breaks down each of the thirty one letters into easy-to-understand segments helping you understand and be able to confidently share with others.

The Screwtape Letters is a brilliant and satirical look at spiritual warfare and the dynamics of temptation. Screwtape, a senior demon in the bureaucracy of Hell, writes letters to his incompetent nephew Wormwood, a junior devil. The younger demon's assignment is to corrupt a young man living in London during the tumultuous days of World War II.

Using Scripture references, discussion questions, and related commentary, The Screwtape Letters Study Guide examines each letter through a Christian lens of morality, temptation, and good and evil.

This complete Bible study experience is perfect for book clubs, church groups, and independent study. Detailed character sketches and an easy-to-read book summary provide deep insights into each character and letter of the book. To help with those more difficult discussion questions, a complete Answer Guide and Scripture Reference Guide is available for free online.

The Screwtape Letters Study Guide includes:

• Twelve sessions of study with multi-week options included
• Comprehensive Bible study workbook with studies for each week
• Complete character sketches and summaries to go deeper
• Bible study questions that are ideal for group discussion
• Answer Guide for all questions and Scripture Reference Guide available for free online
• Perfect for book clubs, small groups, or individual Bible study
• Available in print or e-book formats

Explore every shocking and amusing detail of this iconic classic to better understand Christianity and the foolish war raging against it. There's no better tool for making that happen than with The Screwtape Letters Study Guide!

Endorsement

Vermilye walks the reader through each Screwtape letter and wisely asks questions to bring out turns and twists in the thoughts and emotions that we each experience and that Lewis wanted us to recognize.

Steven Urban PhD,

Author of Mere Christianity Study Guide

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780997841725
Publisher:	Brown Chair Books
Publication date:	07/01/2015
Series:	CS Lewis Study
Pages:	130
Sales rank:	119,131
Product dimensions:	7.80(w) x 9.40(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Alan Vermilye has worked in Christian publishing for over 15 years with many top selling Bible study authors as well as Christian musicians. He is the author of The Screwtape Letters Study Guide, The Screwtape Letters Study Guide for Teens, Screwtape Proposes a Toast Study Guide, The Great Divorce Study Guide, and he created the very popular Big Shiny Planet Bible Study Series used by thousands of church youth groups worldwide.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Foreword

Introduction

Book Summary

Character Summary

Course Notes and Study Formats

Letter 1: Reason and Reality

Letter 2: Distracting the Christian Mind

Letter 3: Relationships

Letter 4: Sincere Prayer

Letter 5: War

Letter 6: Focus

Letter 7: Extremism

Letter 8: Troughs and Peaks

Letter 9: Pleasure

Letter 10: Bad Friends

Letter 11: Laughter

Letter 12: Nothing

Letter 13: Personal Pleasure

Letter 14: Humility

Letter 15: Past, Present, Future, and Eternity

Letter 16: Churches

Letter 17: Gluttony, Delicacy Rather than Excess

Letter 18: Love and Marriage

Letter 19: Using Love

Letter 20: Sexual Taste

Letter 21: Entitlement

Letter 22: The Christian Life

Letter 23: The Historical Jesus

Letter 24: Ignorance and Arrogance

Letter 25: The Same Old Thing

Letter 26: Unselfishness

Letter 27: Answers

Letter 28: Perseverance

Letter 29: Cowardice

Letter 30: Fatigue

Letter 31: The Other Side

Quotes

Editorial Reviews

In advising how to keep his patient’s life with God ineffective and arbitrary, a senior devil admonishes a junior to, “Keep his mind on the inner life . . . For if he ever comes to make the distinction, if ever he consciously directs his prayers ‘Not to what I think thou art but to what thou knowest thyself to be’, our situation is . . . desperate.” And so C.S. Lewis launches us into a collection of devilish letters from Uncle Screwtape to his “nephew” Wormwood in his classic and widely popular, The Screwtape Letters.

Lewis wrote about the inspiration for the book in a letter to his brother who had recently been rescued from Nazi-surrounded Dunkirk during WWII. Lewis explained that in church on July 21, 1940—the morning after he had listened to a very persuasive radio speech by Hitler that made even Lewis wavier in his convictions—he had been “struck by an idea for a book which I think might be both useful and entertaining. It would be called As One Devil to Another . . . The idea would be to give all the psychology of temptation from the other point of view.”

As much as The Screwtape Letters did indeed prove to be very ‘useful’ to thousands during the confusion of WWII, it is a book equally valuable for us in today’s culture of rapid change and confusion. Recognizing an enemy of truth and the Christian faith in the complex world around us is challenging, yet recognizing the subtle, shadowy whispers and twists of an enemy within is often even more difficult. But before there can be hope of progress in dealing with any enemy, that enemy must first be recognizable. Therefore any assistance and wisdom in this recognition is genuinely welcomed. And this what Alan Vermilye has done with his study of Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters.

Vermilye walks the reader through each Screwtape letter and wisely asks questions to bring out turns and twists in the thoughts and emotions that we each experience and that Lewis wanted us to recognize. He helps us to see where crippling “truths” are often nothing more than half-truths and lies that enslave us with pride and defensiveness or shame and reticence. From his years of teaching Bible study classes, Vermilye also smartly adds Scripture to weigh in on the discussion. For anyone or group that wants to become more intimate with God by re-assessing some of the enemies strongholds within, I highly recommend Alan Vermilye’s study.

Steven Urban PhD Double-board certified Physiatric Interventional Pain Specialist

Author of Mere Christianity Study Guide: A Bible Study on the C.S. Lewis Book Mere Christianity

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