Letter 25 Themes: Mere Christianity; novelty; pleasure; fads; discontentment of the Same Old Things; jargon. Screwtape-Letters_-25Download Letter 26 Themes: Unselfishness (self-denial); charity (agape love); erotic enchantment (eros love) in courtship. Screwtape-Letters_-26Download Letter 27 Themes: Spiritual distraction; petitionary prayer; the nature of time and prayer; Historical Point of View....

From the book: “Resident Aliens – A Provocative Christian Assessment of Culture and Ministry for People Who Know That Something is Wrong.” By Stanley Hauerwas and William H. Willimon. Preface “The church is a colony, an island of one culture in the middle of another.” (p. 12) The poem No Man Is an Island by John Donne opens with the lines: “No man is an island,Entire of itself,Every man is a piece of the continent,A part...