Reading Group: The Screwtape Letters

Reading Group: The Screwtape Letters - NarniaWeb Forum https://community-dev.narniaweb.com/community/reading-group-the-screwtape-letters/ NarniaWeb Forum Discussion Board en-US Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:37:45 +0000 wpForo 60 Closing August 8th https://community-dev.narniaweb.com/community/reading-group-the-screwtape-letters/closing-august-8th/ Wed, 01 Aug 2012 14:07:27 +0000 ]]> Reading Group: The Screwtape Letters fantasia https://community-dev.narniaweb.com/community/reading-group-the-screwtape-letters/closing-august-8th/ General Thoughts https://community-dev.narniaweb.com/community/reading-group-the-screwtape-letters/general-thoughts/ Tue, 24 Apr 2012 10:34:32 +0000 Does having a story woven in among the points make the book easier to read? What impression did you take away from the Letters? What (if any) recurring themes are there in the Letters? What's your favourite part? Least favourite? What was the most convicting point for you? What part do you think you'll go back to? Why? Do you have any story to tell about reading the book? If you've had the chance to listen to the audio dramatization, or see a stage production, how does that compare to the book? If you haven't, what would you like to see or hear?]]> Reading Group: The Screwtape Letters Meltintalle https://community-dev.narniaweb.com/community/reading-group-the-screwtape-letters/general-thoughts/ Screwtape Proposes a Toast https://community-dev.narniaweb.com/community/reading-group-the-screwtape-letters/screwtape-proposes-a-toast/ Tue, 24 Apr 2012 09:48:53 +0000 As always, you do not have to answer all of the questions or any of the questions, for that matter, if you would rather just express you thoughts. 1. If what Screwtape welcomes, we ought to dread, what do you make of his statement that mediocrity among the Patients is a change for the better? 2. How would you define democracy? How do you think most people define democracy? Or do most people even agree on what it is? 3. What do you think about Screwtape's statement "No man you says I'm as good as you believes it. ... The claim to equality, outside the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior."? 4. Screwtape describes an ideal (for them) system of education. How does his ideal compare to the current system of education? 5. What do you think about Screwtape's closing statement?

All said and done, my friends, it will be an ill day for us if what most humans mean by 'religion' ever vanishes from the Earth. It can still send us the truly delicious sins. The fine flower of unholiness can grow only in the close neighborhood of the Holy. Nowhere do with tempt so successfully as on the very steps of the alter.

6. What idea can we take away from this Toast? 7. How does Screwtape Proposes a Toast fit with the letters (ex. Does it complement it? Does it contradict it? Is it better off being viewed as an individual work? etc.)]]> Reading Group: The Screwtape Letters Pattertwigs Pal https://community-dev.narniaweb.com/community/reading-group-the-screwtape-letters/screwtape-proposes-a-toast/ Letter 31 https://community-dev.narniaweb.com/community/reading-group-the-screwtape-letters/letter-31/ Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:47:56 +0000 Reading Group: The Screwtape Letters Meltintalle https://community-dev.narniaweb.com/community/reading-group-the-screwtape-letters/letter-31/ Letter 30 https://community-dev.narniaweb.com/community/reading-group-the-screwtape-letters/letter-30/ Tue, 17 Apr 2012 08:32:11 +0000 Reading Group: The Screwtape Letters Pattertwigs Pal https://community-dev.narniaweb.com/community/reading-group-the-screwtape-letters/letter-30/ Letter 29 https://community-dev.narniaweb.com/community/reading-group-the-screwtape-letters/letter-29/ Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:21:53 +0000 Reading Group: The Screwtape Letters Meltintalle https://community-dev.narniaweb.com/community/reading-group-the-screwtape-letters/letter-29/ Letter 28 https://community-dev.narniaweb.com/community/reading-group-the-screwtape-letters/letter-28/ Tue, 10 Apr 2012 07:09:09 +0000 For as regards nature, experience presents us with rules and is the source of truth, but in relation to ethical laws experience is the parent of illusion, and it is in the highest degree reprehensible to limit or to deduce the laws which dictate what I ought to do, from what is done. Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason (1781; transl. Meiklejohn 1855) I: Transcendental Doctrine of Elements, 2.2.1, “Of the Conceptions of Pure Reason”, Section 1, “Of ideas in general”, par. 7. Do you think Screwtape's paraphrase accurately represents what Kant is saying? If not, what do you think Kant is trying to say? People tend to think that experience is very important. Why is it harmful in the case of virtue?]]> Reading Group: The Screwtape Letters Pattertwigs Pal https://community-dev.narniaweb.com/community/reading-group-the-screwtape-letters/letter-28/ Letter 27 https://community-dev.narniaweb.com/community/reading-group-the-screwtape-letters/letter-27/ Tue, 03 Apr 2012 09:38:00 +0000 Reading Group: The Screwtape Letters Meltintalle https://community-dev.narniaweb.com/community/reading-group-the-screwtape-letters/letter-27/ Letter 26 https://community-dev.narniaweb.com/community/reading-group-the-screwtape-letters/letter-26/ Tue, 03 Apr 2012 07:43:05 +0000 Reading Group: The Screwtape Letters Pattertwigs Pal https://community-dev.narniaweb.com/community/reading-group-the-screwtape-letters/letter-26/ The Hobbit Reading Group - Posts from April Fool's Day https://community-dev.narniaweb.com/community/reading-group-the-screwtape-letters/the-hobbit-reading-group-posts-from-april-fools-day/ Sat, 31 Mar 2012 12:56:39 +0000 ]]> Reading Group: The Screwtape Letters ramagut https://community-dev.narniaweb.com/community/reading-group-the-screwtape-letters/the-hobbit-reading-group-posts-from-april-fools-day/