Via Negativa: The Way of the Spirit - C. S. Lewis’s Screwtape Preface (Daymakers 32)

Join the Daymakers for this inspiring introduction to C. S. Lewis’s Screwtape Letters. After Marko introduces C. S. Lewis and sets up our discussion, get ready for a dive into William Blake’s brilliant “Marriage of Heaven & Hell.” Does the Devil have something to teach us through apophasis? Lewis tells us the Devil is a liar. So how do we read the Screwtape Letters? The Daymakers consider the parable of The Prodigal Son, which Marc reads to us from the consummate King James Version. How is being lost, then “found,” so central to personal growth? The Daymakers wrestle with the problem of suffering.

Please note the following corrigendum: the line from Blake, "The vision of Christ that thou dost see / Is my vision's greatest enemy," does not in fact occur in "Auguries of Innocence," but in "The Everlasting Gospel."

Don’t miss the next episode on Screwtape’s Letter 1, which focuses on (a) the evil of bureaucracy, (b) what Screwtape calls “jargon” or “propaganda” as well as (c) the problem of the sensual world of experience.