Ronald E. Wheeler

The Other Shoulder (eBook, ePUB)

Resisting Temptation in The Screwtape Letters

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

What duties might a guardian angel perform? Does it act defensively, warding off demonic attacks to protect its Charge from horrifying evil? Does it act offensively, harrowing wickedness by equipping its assigned Soul with gifted power? What could an angel do for a child of God that the indwelling Spirit of the Creator's Holiness does not already do? Yet the Divine Way seems to designate these Messengers for particular service in the created order. They seem designed - at least in part - for, well, messaging.

The Other Shoulder houses a series of lyrics whispered by a guarding angel to a Soul undergoing devilish enticement. The book includes the reflections of that Soul in sketches parallel to the angelic lyrics. Both the sketches and the lyrics probe the psychology, emotion, and agency of resisting temptations advocated in C. S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters. Read with those letters or as a free-standing exploration, The Other Shoulder offers biblically-based assistance to withstand the allurement of sin.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: WestBow Press
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798385022090
• Artikelnr.: 70729242

Autorenporträt

Ronald E. Wheeler instructs students in composition and literature at Johnson University, Knoxville, Tennessee (fall 1977 to present). He teaches an adult fellowship of readers at Woodlawn Christian Church. He and his wife, Martha, have two adult children and eight grandchildren. He has one book of published poetry: Collecting Dust: Sonnets Thus Far.
The Other Shoulder stems from his study and instruction of The Screwtape Letters over four-and-a-half decades - twice the time between Screwtape's inception (1940) and the death of its author, C. S. Lewis (1963). Ron's crisp, invigorated prose and poetic voice blend classic form with conversational tone. His compressed style invites readers to return to his work where they may linger, ponder, and receive both encouragement and challenge from observations and reflections on human behavior and spiritual development.