Tag Archives: Screwtape Letters

Projecting Feeling as Thought

Posted on October 31, 2023 by Awry Stoic

Jeremiads teach us the impermanence and misguiding of emotions through a false filter as shown by Amusing Ourselves to Death and the Screwtape Letters. My father valued Spiritual emotions as one of the greatest and most important books he ever … Continue reading →

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Why C. S. Lewis Would Pay Attention to Comic Books; or, Why C. S. Lewis Would not hold Matt Murdock and Comic Books in Contempt; Suffering

Posted on March 6, 2021 by Awry Stoic

C. S. Lewis’s warning against genreic snobbery Continue reading →

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The Abolition of Man in The Magician’s Nephew

Posted on January 23, 2021 by Awry Stoic

This essay is the fifth part of a series on The Abolition of Man,[1] the first four of which can be found here, here, here, and here. In The Abolition of Man, Lewis lays out his definition of the magician’s bargain for power which … Continue reading →

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The Abolition of Man in That Hideous Strength

Posted on October 31, 2020 by Awry Stoic

The Abolition of Man[0] is the thematic key for the third novel in C. S. Lewis’s Space Trilogy. Man, according to Lewis, in modern times is abolished into material. As a result, man is destroyed. Lewis wrote That Hideous Strength … Continue reading →

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On The Artistic Brilliance of Watson Punching Sherlock in the Face: The Sanctification of Sherlock

Posted on October 3, 2020 by Awry Stoic

Words, words, words. Also sanctifying slapping. Continue reading →

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Damaging the Gospel: Transcendence of Suffering in Screwtape Letter V

Posted on July 10, 2020 by Awry Stoic

If pain is divorced from joy, the gospel is damaged. God allows certain (cursed) environments to which the natural response is sadness, and not joy. Otherwise, there would be no joy, because there would be no trough of sadness before … Continue reading →

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