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Screwtape Letters – Week 10, Letters 28 – 31

ByOscar Overton

Letter 28 Themes: Fear of and blessings of death; spiritual perseverance; middle aged prosperity and adversity; worldly attachments; spiritual attrition, earthly utopia.

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Letter 29 Themes: Cowardice; pride; hatred; courage; despair; God’s motive for creating a dangerous world; superstitions involving hypotheticals; relying on God alone.

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Letter 30 Themes: Duty, purpose, pride, cowardice, fatigue, peevishness, disappointment, total commitment.

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Letter 31 Themes: Death and transition from this life to the next; guardian angels, redemption, liberation, heaven.

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