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

by Alan Vermilye

The Screwtape Letters Study Guide for Teens takes teenagers through a study of the C.S. Lewis classic, The Screwtape Letters.

Created specifically for teenagers, each daily study is designed to take them through each letter written by Screwtape, an undersecretary in the lowerarchy of Hell, to his incompetent nephew Wormwood, a junior devil.

The interactive workbook is perfect for individual study or group study to include youth groups, homeschool groups, or small groups.

The Screwtape Letters Study Guide for Teens includes:


Daily Bible study that will take no more than 20 minutes Study questions are ideal for group discussion Answers to all questions available online Ideal for all teenagers Easy-to-lead for youth leaders

106 pages, Paperback

Published August 10, 2016

Reviews

[Todd Bryant · Rating 3 out of 5]

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 · Rating 5 out of 5]

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 · Rating 4 out of 5]

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.