Screwtape Letters
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MCSEnglish3 on May 21, 2010
Subjects:
English III British Literature
Description:
Mansfield Christian School, English III, Mrs. Cochran, Literature, C.S. Lewis, Screwtape Letters
Classes:
Friday LLC: Literature, MCS English III
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105 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 greeting in every letter | "My Dear Wormwood" |
| Reader's Advisory | "The Devil is a liar." |
| C.S. Lewis | Author of SCREWTAPE LETTERS |
| Walter Hooper | Private Secretary to C.S. Lewis |
| opposite to God | No such thing |
| opposite to Satan | Archangel Michael |
| manner of C.S. Lewis' writing | In character |
| Wormwood | Demon in training; "Junior Tempter" |
| Screwtape | Under Secretary; "Senior Tempter" |
| Glubose | Demon in charge of Patient's mother |
| Slubgob | Head of Training College of Darkness |
| closing of every letter | "Your Affectionate Uncle, Screwtape" |
| jargon | Best ally in keeping a Christian from Church |
| habits | In the "Enemy's Favor" |
| "Real Life" | economics and sociology |
| Plot | "the ultimate salvation/damnation of every individual will always be the most common, but significant "plot" in the history of mankind" |
| Purpose | "to show the psychology of temptation from the other point of view--that of Hell" |
| most common reaction to the book | "How did Lewis, whom I never met, know me so well?" |
| great ally to demons | "the Church, not historically, but in the day to day sense" |
| Demons' strategy in church | "go back and forth between the spiritual and the ordinary" |
| result of getting through the initial dryness successfully | Christians "become much less dependent on emotion and harder to tempt" |
| from the center outwards | how the "Enemy" works |
| double standard from letter three | "demand that all his utterances be taken at face value...while judging his mother's utterances w/ fullest, most overly sensitive interpretations of tone, context & suspected intention" |
| The Prodigal Son | parable mentioned in close of letter three |
| knowledge of "prayer | "Wormwood called "amateur" in____________ |
| Humans | "animals", whatever their bodies do affects their souls |
| "real nakedness of the soul in prayer" | "once all his thoughts and images have been flung aside...and the man trusts himself to the completely real, external, invisible Presence there with him...the incalculable may occur" |
| "parrot talk" | praying out of habit and repetition |
| war | demons' entertainment |
| demons' goals, especially in time of war | "undermining faith and preventing the formation of virtues" |
| costly nursing homes where people lie about a person's true condition | best place for a human to die according to Screwtape |
| the "wine" or reward of demons' labors | the anguish and bewilderment of the human soul |
| contented worldliness | one of demons' best weapons |
| suffering | essential part of Redemption according to God |
| fear | state of mind, worse than what it is that one fears |
| benevolence | good will, kindness, charity |
| malice | animosity, bitterness, hostility, hatred |
| the will | inner circle of man/the heart |
| the intellect | the middle circle of man |
| fantasy/imagination | the outer circle of man |
| patriotism | love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it |
| pacifism | the doctrine that all violence in unjustifiable |
| humans as amphibians | half spirit and half animal |
| spirits | beings who belong to the eternal world |
| animals | beings who simply inhabit time |
| undulation | "repeated return to a level from which they repeatedly fall back, series of troughs and peaks" |
| prayers "offered in dryness" | most pleasing prayers offered to God |
| God's aim for Christians | "united to Him, but still distinct individuals" |
| endangered cause for demons | when a human looks around and it seems that the "Enemy" has vanished, he asks why he has been forsaken, but STILL OBEYS |
| on "Enemy's ground" | "when dealing with any pleasure in its healthy, normal and satisfying form" |
| "trough period opportunities" | demons like to use this period for sensual temptation |
| "milk and water phenomenon" | what humans call "being in love" |
| "direct attack on a Christian's faith" | Screwtape suggests "Make him think that the trough is permanent and Christianity was 'just a phase' like all others" |
| Screwtape's suggested reading material | Modern Biographies, because "the people in them are always emerging from Phases" |
| "Arsenal for denial of faith" by humans | "shame, pride, modesty, and vanity" |
| "the World" | what the Church has spoken very little on the past few decades |
| the thing mortals are pretending to be | "what all mortals tend to turn into" |
| "Puritanism" | old-fashioned thinking about "Worldly Vanities, the Choice of Friends, and the Value of Time" |
| Mammon | Money/finances |
| causes of human laughter | Joy, Fun, the Joke Proper, and Flippancy |
| Joy | "among friends and lovers" when reunited; "a direct insult to realism, dignity, and austerity of Hell" according to Screwtape |
| Fun | "related to Joy; emotional froth arising from the play instinct"; "promotes charity, courage, and contentment" |
| the Joke Proper | a tool for a person to "look funny" rather than cowardice or cruel, because he can pass things off with, "I was just kidding!" |
| Flippancy | "1,000 miles away from Joy"; "deadens the intellect instead of sharpening it" |
| Lewis' position on Eternal Security | "You can lose your salvation." |
| "Spectacular wickedness" | What young tempters are anxious to report |
| the cumulative effect of small sins | "edges the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing" |
| "the grave situation" according to Screwtape | "a second conversion" by the Patient, which is "on a deeper level than the first" |
| the Holy Spirit | "the asphyxiating cloud" which is "the Enemy's most barbarous weapon" |
| two real positive Pleasures which led to the Patient's second conversion | reading a book he really enjoyed and taking a pleasant walk |
| himself | "As a preliminary to detaching him from the Enemy, you wanted to detach him from _____________" |
| self-will | "When He talks of their losing their selves, He only means abandoning the clamor of ______________" |
| personality | "Once they have ['lost themselves'], He really gives them back all their ______________" |
| action | What is required to make his "new repentance" real? |
| desensitization | "The more often he feels w/out acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel" |
| Humility | The Patient's "hope for the daily and hourly pittance to meet the daily and hourly temptation" is a result of him learning the trait of ______________. |
| "True end of Humility" | "The Enemy wants to turn the man's attention away from self to Him, and to the man's neighbors." |
| Self | The end result of "trying to believe those talents to be less valuable than he believes them to be " is still focus on _________. |
| Sins | God does not even want us to think too much on our __________, because "the sooner the man turns his attention outward, the better..." |
| tortured fear and stupid confidence | Two desired states of mind for the Patient from Screwtape's perspective |
| the Present and Eternity | Two things God wants us to attend to |
| the Present | "the point at which time touches Eternity" |
| gratitude | "____________ look(s) to the past" |
| love | "____________ look(s) to the present" |
| fear, avarice, lust, and ambition | "___________ look(s) ahead to the future" |
| church-shopping | the next best thing to church-going |
| what sets the church apart | "brings people of different classes and psychology together in the kind of unity the Enemy desires" |
| critic | As a result of church-shopping, a person becomes a(n) __________. |
| pupil | "...the Enemy wants him to be a ____________" when it comes to going to church. |
| the apostle Paul | "that pestilent fellow [who] used to teach about food and other unessentials" |
| Gluttony of Excess | "overeating" |
| Gluttony of Delicacy | overindulging to the point where the "whole life is enslaved to this kind of sensuality which is quite concealed...quantities are small" |
| vanity | "Males are turned into gluttons with the help of their _________" |
| complete abstinence | God's plan for human sexuality which demons feel they have conquered for the most part |
| unmitigated monogamy | God's plan for human sexuality which demons feel they are closing in on with the use of the idea of "being in love"; if you no longer feel it, it is no longer binding. |
| the Trinity | According to Screwtape, the reason for _____________: "in order that his nonsense about Love may find a foothold in [the Enemy's] own nature". |
| "becoming one flesh" | According to Paul, this phenomenon not only refers to marriage but to any couple engaging in sexual intercourse |
| "heresy" by Screwtape | "Sin" committed by Screwtape when he admitted "that the Enemy really loves the humans". |
| Left "with a suddenness" by choice | Satan's side of the story about his exit from Heaven |
| "Forcibly thrown out of Heaven" | God's side of the story about Satan's exit from Heaven |
| neither | "Falling in love" favors ______________ side. |
| "spirits far deeper down in the Lowerarchy" | those in charge of influencing fashions, styles and trends |
| eye | "We are more and more directing the desires of men to something which does not exist---making the role of the _______________ in sexuality more and more important..." |
| godly woman | one who will love, respect and submit to her husband |
| worldly woman | one who would entice a man not to be married, but in marriage, "he would treat as a slave, an idol, or an accomplice" |
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