In the tradition of C.S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters
C. S. Lewis, who introduced Screwtape, a senior devil, to the world
in 1942, knew that evil is powerful and personal. He understood that
its main thrust was against God and the people of God. There can be no
doubt that Lewis would agree that Screwtape and his diabolical
colleagues have not ceased their operations in the last seventy years.
As the human decades have passed, the same war has been fought, with new
weapons and different battle tactics.
How fortunate, then, that the following account, rescued from the
archives of the Low Command's Ministry of Misinformation, has fallen
into our hands. This remarkable manuscript outlines the career of the
prominent devil, Crumblewit SOD (Order of the Sons of Darkness, 1st
Class). It was in a much mutilated state and has only, with difficulty,
been cut and pasted together to make a reasonably coherent narrative of
the activities of a post-Screwtape generation of devils. It is not, of
course, "true" in the sense of being an objective appraisal of the
struggles between good and evil which dominated human affairs in the
period from 1950 to 2000. The account is distorted by Crumblewit's truly
diabolical conceit and also his ability for self-delusion. However, it
does shed fresh light on the ups and down experienced by the church
throughout this period.
Crumblewit's energies were entirely deployed in the religious
arena. He was employed exclusively in undermining the attempts of
Christians to bring to bear upon world events the prerogatives of love,
peace, and justice and to carry out the mission entrusted to them by
Jesus . . .
It's always interesting to read different views and opinions people have about things which are happening in the heavenlies. The book is hard to read at times but, as I said, it was interesting. I don't know how people get so much information out of so little written. If you like to read things that are outside of the box, then this book is for you.
Thank you Kregel Publications for a complimentary review copy of this novel.
