The Wormwood Letters 2.0 New & Revised

von Tony Ajhar

152 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Eighty years ago, C. S. Lewis let readers eavesdrop on Hell's own correspondence and changed how an entire generation thought about temptation. This is that same war, fought now through smartphones instead of air raids, through algorithms instead of gossip, through a culture that has learned to disguise its oldest sins in the gentlest possible language.Wormwood is no longer the bumbling apprentice his uncle Screwtape once scolded. He is a Senior Tempter now, and he has an apprentice of his own: Scindle, whose very name, from the Latin scindere, to divide, tells you exactly what he has been sent to do.This is the New and Revised edition of The Wormwood Letters, and readers of the original deserve to know exactly what has changed, and why.The first edition was written to be an easy, accessible read, and thousands of you told me it met you exactly where you were. This edition was written for a different, longer-held ambition: to build the book the way Lewis actually built his, as one continuous, unfolding story rather than a series of standalone reflections loosely gathered under a theme.Every chapter title you loved is still here. Underneath nearly every one of them is now a different piece of writing entirely, deeper theologically, more carefully argued, and woven into a single narrative that follows one man, one marriage, one church, and one friendship across several years, the way Screwtape's own letters quietly tracked a single soul from lukewarm faith through the whole of a life.Across thirty-six letters, a hidden second correspondence from a tempter working the pulpit while Scindle works the pew, and a climax built to land the way the original 1942 ending still lands eighty years later, this edition follows an ordinary man's slow drift into distraction, watches his church soften from the inside, and traces a friendship's quiet unraveling into deconstruction, all narrated by the devils trying to engineer it. Nothing your patient does will look like sin. That is precisely the point.Every letter stands on real philosophy, real theology, real psychology, Augustine and Aristotle, Pascal and Kierkegaard, the actual arguments of actual thinkers, folded into Wormwood's voice the way Lewis folded Rousseau and Hegel into Screwtape's. This is a book built to be studied as seriously as it is enjoyed, footnote-worthy in a seminary classroom and gripping enough to read in a single sitting.By the final page, Wormwood's own glass never quite makes it to his lips, and the correspondence that leaked once is about to leak again. The war this book describes is only beginning.If you loved the original Wormwood Letters, this is not a replacement. It is the fuller, deeper telling of the same story you already knew mattered, the one I always wanted to write, finally finished. Related. But its own thing entirely.Read it soberly. Read it slowly. And when you finish, ask yourself honestly which letters described you.

• ISBN: 9798194467259
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 23.08.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp