The Screwtape Letters Study Guide for Teens: A Bible Study for Teenagers on the C.S. Lewis Book The Screwtape Letters

by Alan Vermilye

Help Teens Study and Share The Screwtape Letters!

For over 70 years, teenagers have loved reading The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis but have struggled to completely understand and share what they read. Today, The Screwtape Letters Study Guide for Teens makes it easy for teens to not only read the book, but to study and share this iconic classic with their friends.

The Screwtape Letters is a brilliant and satirical look at spiritual warfare and the dynamics of temptation. Screwtape, a senior demon in the bureaucracy of Hell, writes letters to his incompetent nephew Wormwood, a junior devil. The younger demon's assignment is to corrupt a young man living in London during the tumultuous days of World War II.

Using Scripture references, discussion questions, and relatable stories, The Screwtape Letters Study Guide for Teens takes teens on a journey through each of the book's thirty-one letters demonstrating the Christian struggle with morality, temptation, and good and evil providing them with the solution found in the grace, love, and power of God.

Detailed character sketches and an easy-to-read book summary provide deep insights into each character and letter of the book. To help with those more difficult discussion questions, a complete Answer Guide and Scripture Reference Guide is available for free online. This complete Bible study experience is perfect for youth groups, homeschool groups, and independent Bible study.

The Screwtape Letters Study Guide for Teens

Daily Bible studies that take no more than 20 minutes Easy-to-read workbook with questions relatable to teenagers Complete character sketches and summaries to go deeper Answer Guide to all questions and Scripture Reference Guide available for free online Perfect for all teenagers Available in print or e-book formats Even today, a version of Screwtape is carefully targeting teenagers, providing a host of temptations to take their minds away from God. The Screwtape Letters Study Guide for Teens is the perfect tool to help teens avoid those pitfalls by recognizing the enemy's subtle attacks on their faith.



This study guide does a great job of making The Screwtape Letters relate to the world facing teens today. The concepts in the book are timeless, but teens might not see that, so this help parents and teens apply the letters to life today.

Camp "C" Mom, Amazon Review

82 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 10, 2016

About the author

Alan Vermilye, an Amazon Best-Selling author, has written numerous books, including modern-day revisions of The Pilgrim's Progress Series, the C.S. Lewis Study Series, The Carols of Christmas Devotional Series, and most recently a story version of Paradise Lost.

Alan's extensive career in the Christian publishing industry spans nearly 25 years, during which he has collaborated with hundreds of top-selling authors and Christian musicians, providing his expertise in book and Bible study project creation, publishing, and marketing.

When asked to teach a Sunday School class almost 30 years ago, he started writing his own study guides because he couldn't find many that suited his teaching style. He found his passion in immersing himself in God's Word and creating teaching aids and discussion questions to help others embrace the same love for studying and following the teachings of Scripture.

Over a decade ago, he assisted his close friend, Dr. Steve Urban, in publishing a study on the C.S. Lewis classic, Mere Christianity. That project's success made him aware of the significant demand for study materials for Lewis's works. This led Alan to create a study guide for The Screwtape Letters, and subsequently for other books by Lewis, which have become the most popular study guides on his works.

After being challenged by his wife to write a study guide for The Pilgrim's Progress, he discovered that there were no readable translations that he truly comprehended. Therefore, he dedicated the following year and a half to revising the original translation into contemporary English. It has now become the top-selling book on The Pilgrim's Progress on Amazon.

Alan has also written a series of devotionals, including The Carols of Christmas (Vol. 1, 2, & 3), The Proverbs Devotional Challenge, and a devotional on The Practice of the Presence of God. In addition, he’s written study guides for the Charles Dicken’s classic, A Christmas Carol, and his favorite movie, It's a Wonderful Life.

Learn more about all of his Bible studies and download free answer guides, books, and videos at the Brown Chair Books website.

Reviews

[Todd Bryant]

Decent

I’d really like something more detailed as a guide. This is clearly aimed at hitting the high points for teens.

[John F. Weiss]

You need to read “The Screwtape Letters” as an intro, of course, but this study guide (nominally for teens) is an exercise in extraction that lets you return to salient points in the original and reexamine their subtle and not-so-subtle implications. To summary the “Letters:” Wormwood is the guardian devil of his human subject, writing periodic reports to his mentor, Screwtape. Screwtape, in turn, uses his letters to offer all sorts of pertinent advice on the human condition and how to turn a human’s ego, behaviors, and desires into opportunities for corruptible moments, such that the subject under attack shows little awareness of his gradual descend into perdition. Screwtape says, for example: “Only a clever human can make a real Joke about virtue, or indeed about anything else; any of them can be trained to talk as if virtue were funny.” Thus, the study guide uses excerpts from Screwtape’s letters to illustrate moral topics for each chapter’s discussion and further questioning. Some thirty topics comprise the study guide, and the follow-up questions are thought-provoking and can make for lively debates. Some of these arguments can also turn out to be above a current teenager’s pay grade.

[Rick Kohut]

A good companion to the actual text of The Screwtape Letters. The reflection/discussion questions are generally good, yet they are from a pretty conservative, Evangelical Christian perspective. This would be best used with another book (or website) which helps to explain the letters as this book is simply questions and similar about the novel.