- Click here to test your comma chops. Study for the quiz next week.
- Go over exercise 32-3 in Bedford.
*The Screwtape Letters
- Wormwood Analysis Journal ~ The word "Wormwood" is found in scripture, though generally not as a proper name. In the King James Version or the New American Standard Version of the Bible, read Jeremiah 9:15; Lamentations 3:15, 19; Amos 6:12; and Revelation 8:10,11. What connotations does this name have (you may also wish to read the verses in the New International Version)? Why do you think Lewis chose it for Screwtape's nephew?
- Discuss: Why do you believe Screwtape and Wormwood refer to their humans as patients?
- Discuss: In Letter 3, Screwtape implies that true conversion is not a merely internal process. Read Luke 3:7-14; Romans 12:1,2 and Ephesians 2:8-10. What is to be one of the results of true conversion? In your opinion, what biblical figures best exemplify true conversion? How have you seen true conversion in the lives of Christians you know or know about?
- Discuss: In Letter 4, Screwtape tells his nephew, "teach them to estimate the value of each prayer by their success in producing the desired feeling; and never let them suspect how much success or failure of that kind depends on whether they are well or ill, fresh or tired, at the oment." Do you the judge the existence of spirituality on our feelings? Is that a valid way of judging what is true about the metaphysical world?
- Vocab Letters 5-7 ~ Use the Progeny guide to do the exercise before you read.
H*Homework:
- Read and highlight key passages in Letters 5 & 6. After Letter 7, we will complete another journal.
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