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Powers & Principalities

The Devil Is No Joke

Luke Timothy Johnson

In the seventh letter of his 1942 epistolary novel The Screwtape Letters, C. S. Lewis nicely captures our benignly modern view of the devil. While giving tactical advice to his apprentice devil, Wormwood, concerning the spiritual seduction of a man referred to as “the Patient,” mentor devil Screwtape writes that “our policy for the moment, is to conceal ourselves,” and (...)


 

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