APOL 330 Quiz 1 Liberty University
- Screwtape believes that rationality has been replaced with skepticism
- At the beginning of the dialogue, Screwtape states that sophisticated arguments are currently the best way to keep people out of the “enemy’s” clutches
- Distractions play a big role in Screwtape’s program of manipulation
- Arguments from science figure prominately in Screwtape’s methods of attack against Christianity
- Uncle Screwtape is more interested n trying to get people to consider the familiar over the unfamiliar than he is having people consider one worldview over another
- The local church proves to be a source of great anxiety for uncle Screwtape as he seeks to discourage and dissuade the believer
- Screwtape spends time educating Wormwood in the art of making the experience of church ordinary/mundane for the recent convert
- Screwtape would much rather do battle on the field of rational argument than he would on the prairies of emotion
- Fruitful/revelatory self-examination is an activity that Wormwood is encouraged to get his patient to do more of
- Introspection plays a big role in Screwtape’s campaign of misdirection
- Screwtape would love for “patients” to pray to an image of God that they have produced in their own mind
- Screwtape is very excited about the opportunities that war affords his cause, believing that all aspects of wartime conflict are useful in discouraging the saints
- Screwtape offers concentric circles as a helpful image that betrays his view of inner human The circles include an innermost will, his intellect coming next, and finally his fantasy
- Which of the following is NOT something that that Screwtape believes is helpful in misleading “patients”?
- Screwtape believes, at least at present, that it is best for wormwood to conceal his identity to the “patient.”
- Wormwood is encouraged to help the “patient” avoid conflating patriotism and
- At the end of the day, Screwtape reveals that he wants “servants that become slaves” while his Enemy (God) wants “servants who finally become sons”
- What does Screwtape mean when he refers to humans as amphibians?
- Screwtape is skeptical of Wormwood’s excitement concerning his patient’s lull in the “religious state” suggesting that God can use the dry/difficult times (troughs) as well as the exciting/dynamic seasons (peaks) and often enjoys using the former over the latter
- According to Screwtape, laughter can always be used to his office’s advantage
- Which of the following are ways in which Screwtape encourages Wormwood to exploit the “trough periods of the human undulation”?
- Screwtape can tolerate the patient attending church
- Screwtape always encourages Wormwood toward having his patient commit outrageous and spectacular acts of sin
- Screwtape indicates that action on the part of the patient in a positive direction is worse than
- Screwtape believes that it is better for his party to get patients to think about the past than the future