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Magnificent Malevolence

Devilish Memoirs in the Tradition of The Screwtape Letters

Magnificent Malevolence

Devilish Memoirs in the Tradition of The Screwtape Letters

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Paperback / softback

£8.99

Publisher: SPCK Publishing
ISBN: 9780857214218
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 18/01/2013
Width: 13 cm
Height: 19.8 cm
From the archives of the Low Command: Ministry of Misinformation (stamp) This remarkable manuscript outlines the career of the prominent devil, Crumblewit (Order of the Sons of Darkness, 1st Class). It was in a much mutilated state. Nevertheless it presents 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 1942 (when Screwtape's Letters were released to the world) to the present. The account is distorted by Crumblewit's truly diabolical conceit and capacity 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 deployed in the religious arena. He was employed exclusively in undermining the attempts of Christians to carry out the mission entrusted to them by Jesus ...

Derek Wilson

Popular historian Derek Wilson came to prominence 40 years ago with A Tudor Tapestry. He is the highly acclaimed author of over 50 books and has written and presented numerous television and radio programmes. He lives and writes in Devon.