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105 - The Screwtape Letters: Demonic Advice on Distracting the Soul
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Lewis's Screwtape Letters turn temptation into correspondence: a senior devil coaches a junior tempter on how to spoil an ordinary soul. Screwtape Proposes a Toast widens the satire into hell's bureaucracy, education, and the soft destruction of excellence. In this Mythic Mind lecture from the Fiction and Philosophy of C.S. Lewis course, Dr. Andrew Snyder (professor of philosophy and theology) walks the letters and the toast: distraction as spiritual strategy, the war on prayer and charity, and why hell prefers cattle who can become food while God wants servants who become sons.
Topics include the mythologizing of science and progress, the Inner Ring impulse behind status, and how Screwtape trains us to miss God in the middle of ordinary days.
Related:
• The Abolition of Man, Part 1: Men Without Chests (Mythic Mind, ep. 111): https://youtu.be/voOEKAzHrk0
• That Hideous Strength: Opening the Final Ransom Novel (Mythic Mind, ep. 106): https://youtu.be/rTO6qBf0WNs
• Myth Became Fact: The Incarnation as True Myth (Mythic Mind, ep. 116): https://youtu.be/gNI3hTdgXB8
• The Great Divorce: Heaven, Hell, and the Choice That Divides (Mythic Mind, ep. 117): https://youtu.be/bHfA0S1KzxM
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https://youtu.be/wpM57wego3Y
Lewis's Screwtape Letters turn temptation into correspondence: a senior devil coaches a junior tempter on how to spoil an ordinary soul. Screwtape Proposes a Toast widens the satire into hell's bureaucracy, education, and the soft destruction of excellence. In this Mythic Mind lecture from the Fiction and Philosophy of C.S. Lewis course, Dr. Andrew Snyder (professor of philosophy and theology) walks the letters and the toast: distraction as spiritual strategy, the war on prayer and charity, and why hell prefers cattle who can become food while God wants servants who become sons.
Topics include the mythologizing of science and progress, the Inner Ring impulse behind status, and how Screwtape trains us to miss God in the middle of ordinary days.
Related:
• The Abolition of Man, Part 1: Men Without Chests (Mythic Mind, ep. 111): https://youtu.be/voOEKAzHrk0
• That Hideous Strength: Opening the Final Ransom Novel (Mythic Mind, ep. 106): https://youtu.be/rTO6qBf0WNs
• Myth Became Fact: The Incarnation as True Myth (Mythic Mind, ep. 116): https://youtu.be/gNI3hTdgXB8
• The Great Divorce: Heaven, Hell, and the Choice That Divides (Mythic Mind, ep. 117): https://youtu.be/bHfA0S1KzxM
Join the Mythic Mind Fellowship:
https://mythicmindfellowship.c...
Listen to/watch the Mythic Mind podcasts:
- Mythic Mind
- Mythic Mind Games
- Mythic Mind Movies & Shows
#MythicMind #CSLewis #Screwtape #ScrewtapeLetters #Theology #Philosophy
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mythic-mind--5808321/support.