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Screwtape on Creation
Screwtape on Creation - from insights from the Bible - addresses the Creation Week of Genesis' profound topics,
In the context of its day, what is the incredible message of the Creation Account?
What incredible significance do we humans have? What role do we enjoy?
How does understanding the Creation Account in its context help us to thrive?
Are scripture and science compatible?
Absolutely, though not in the way one might expect, Screwtape inadvertantly divulges the details.
What sacred role do the cosmos and creation play?
What are the superlative constructs in the Creation Account, the big ideas on the Author's heart that he wants us to know?
What is the significance of the three-times parallelisms in the passage?
What does the Creation Week's chiastic literary structure powerfully convey?
What powerful polemics are put forth?
Enjoy exploring the rich meaning of the Creation Week of Genesis in its context - in creative fashion - in Screwtape on Creation.
About the A Great Genre
Those familiar with the genre of a demon writing letters advising a junior demon, while inadvertently exposing great truths, will recognize the genre. It is a fitting genre probing the profound polemics of the creation account of God at work.
The reader will enjoy that while Screwtape writes to his underling Bitterroot, he inadvertently reveals the riches of the Creation Narrative and the Bible.
In the context of its day, what is the incredible message of the Creation Account?
What incredible significance do we humans have? What role do we enjoy?
How does understanding the Creation Account in its context help us to thrive?
Are scripture and science compatible?
Absolutely, though not in the way one might expect, Screwtape inadvertantly divulges the details.
What sacred role do the cosmos and creation play?
What are the superlative constructs in the Creation Account, the big ideas on the Author's heart that he wants us to know?
What is the significance of the three-times parallelisms in the passage?
What does the Creation Week's chiastic literary structure powerfully convey?
What powerful polemics are put forth?
Enjoy exploring the rich meaning of the Creation Week of Genesis in its context - in creative fashion - in Screwtape on Creation.
About the A Great Genre
Those familiar with the genre of a demon writing letters advising a junior demon, while inadvertently exposing great truths, will recognize the genre. It is a fitting genre probing the profound polemics of the creation account of God at work.
The reader will enjoy that while Screwtape writes to his underling Bitterroot, he inadvertently reveals the riches of the Creation Narrative and the Bible.
111 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 2, 2024
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Steven Moore
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Steven Moore is a literary critic. He received his Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 1988.
While Moore has been a teacher, bookstore owner, book reviewer, and columnist, he is most well known for his work as an editor and author of literary criticism. Moore is the foremost authority on William Gaddis, having written a book on this author, supervised the collection of several critical essays, and assisted in the translation of Gaddis' work into Chinese.
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Steven Moore is a literary critic. He received his Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 1988.
While Moore has been a teacher, bookstore owner, book reviewer, and columnist, he is most well known for his work as an editor and author of literary criticism. Moore is the foremost authority on William Gaddis, having written a book on this author, supervised the collection of several critical essays, and assisted in the translation of Gaddis' work into Chinese.
The wikipedia entry.
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September 27, 2024
C. S. Lewis’ book The Screwtape Letters is a series of letters from a senior demon to a junior demon revealing various truths that the demonic world wants to hide from Christians. This book takes a similar approach but focuses on the creation accounts, Ancient Near Eastern literary styles, temple themes, and modern science. It’s important to grasp that the perspective of the book is from the enemies of God since this is the inverse of a typical Christian book. The introduction does a good job of explaining it.
I love how this book shows the importance of temple themes throughout the Bible, in the creation account in Genesis 1, the crucifixion and resurrection, Christ tabernacling in his people, John's gospel and Revelation, and more. This important concept is easily lost on modern people, as the demons in this book desire.
This is a fairly short book and a quick read. The emphasis is on understanding the Bible well, particularly creation passages like Genesis 1. Using the literary device of an experienced demon advising his less experienced nephew on sowing confusion and misunderstanding, the author reveals truths about the original audience, literary genre, thematic writing style, numerology, repetition, and the meaning and importance of temples in the Ancient Near East.
Sometimes reading from a different and unexpected point of view illuminates a subject in a way not seen before. I think Screwtape on Creation does this well. I especially love the end where the resurrection of Jesus restores the temple so that we are no longer separated from God. He dwells within us, his image bearers, his human temples. I recommend this book for those looking to understand the Bible better, and for C. S. Lewis fans who will appreciate the literary approach the author uses.
I love how this book shows the importance of temple themes throughout the Bible, in the creation account in Genesis 1, the crucifixion and resurrection, Christ tabernacling in his people, John's gospel and Revelation, and more. This important concept is easily lost on modern people, as the demons in this book desire.
This is a fairly short book and a quick read. The emphasis is on understanding the Bible well, particularly creation passages like Genesis 1. Using the literary device of an experienced demon advising his less experienced nephew on sowing confusion and misunderstanding, the author reveals truths about the original audience, literary genre, thematic writing style, numerology, repetition, and the meaning and importance of temples in the Ancient Near East.
Sometimes reading from a different and unexpected point of view illuminates a subject in a way not seen before. I think Screwtape on Creation does this well. I especially love the end where the resurrection of Jesus restores the temple so that we are no longer separated from God. He dwells within us, his image bearers, his human temples. I recommend this book for those looking to understand the Bible better, and for C. S. Lewis fans who will appreciate the literary approach the author uses.
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