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- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 20:11:14 CDT
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- From: Ian Williams <iwilliam@AU.ORACLE.COM>
- Subject: CS LEWIS - SCREWTAPE REVIEW
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- Well today I started and finished 'The Screwtape Letters' by CS LEWIS.
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- For those not familar with the book, it deals with letters from a
- senior demon to a junior demon giving advice on how better to torment the
- junior demons 'patient'.
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- All in all the book was very enjoying, and very much stuck to the theology
- expressed in Mere Christianity.
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- The major impression I got from the book is that it is a worthwhile if not
- 'easy' read..
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- My major problem with the book is the huge Armeniesm (sp?) undercurrent
- in the theology. The demons themselves did not know for sure the salvation
- state of the person in question. No born again experience of any sort was
- noted, just that the person had become a christian.
- Never throughout the whole book was any indication of any eternal security
- noted (and I do not think to put it down to authors license).
- It seems to me (and I may be wrong) that CS LEWIS had a rather shaky idea
- of being saved. One was a christian when one gave in and believed in God,
- and if HE was good enough to make it through to the end of his life, then
- he was finally saved... It had a strong current of the human being good
- enough, never Jesus being good enough... It seemed starved of Grace.
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- All in All it was a good read, but really offered little hope in its theology
- for people who do not believe in Grace in the extent of its ability to keep
- one saved through the performance of Jesus Christ, and not us humans, who
- are no more able to keep our shoe laces tied than to make it to heaven..
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