Letter number twenty nine could perhaps be titled “Cowardice”
- Why would Screwtape say that “to be greatly and effectively wicked a man needs some virtue”? (paragraph 2) What does this (and the fact that the devil cannot create such virtues) tell us about the nature of evil?
- Why is “cowardice, alone of all the vices, purely painful” (par. 3) Why is courage “not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point”? (par. 5)
- What do you think, did God, as Screwtape contends, create a dangerous world? Or does He simply put it to His good uses? (par. 5) Give your reasons.
- Do we ever really have anything we can truly fall back on, other than God (and His Son Jesus Christ)? (par. 7)
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