Temptation in a Time of Quarantine: How Screwtape Is Using the Pandemic


2021 Symposium Plenary Abstract by Dr Louis Markos



In The Screwtape Letters, C. S. Lewis allows us to eavesdrop on a correspondence between a senior devil named Screwtape and his nephew Wormwood on the art of tempting humans. This talk will expose some of the techniques Screwtape might be using to sow discord within families during the pandemic.

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