The Snakebite Letters: Devilishly Devious Secrets for Subverting Society As Taught in Tempter's Training School [Paperback]

Peter J. Kreeft (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 123 pages
• Publisher: Ignatius Pr (April 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0898704499
• ISBN-13: 978-0898704495
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.3 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,519,927 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Peter J. Kreeft (Ph.D., Fordham University) is professor of philosophy at Boston College where he has taught since 1965. A popular lecturer, he has also taught at many other colleges, seminaries and educational institutions in the eastern United States. Kreeft has written more than sixty-seven books, including The Best Things in Life, Christianity for Modern Pagans, Fundamentals of the Faith and The Handbook of Christian Apologetics.

Dr. Kreeft's MP3 audio lectures can be purchased on Amazon, such as
"Christianity in Lord of the Rings".

Free articles, audio lectures, the speaking schedule and more info from Dr. Peter Kreeft can be found at his popular web site:
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17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Terrific send up of current problems, April 14, 1998

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This review is from: The Snakebite Letters: Devilishly Devious Secrets for Subverting Society As Taught in Tempter's Training School (Paperback)

This is a followup to C.S. Lewis' Screwtape Letters, and, while not as good as the orginal, it is an excellent way to get a "tour" of the current problems in the church. It has the merit of a humorous approach to problems ranging from priests and professors who discourage faith in Catholic colleges to a short discussion of confusion and its role in teaching people that sophistication is better than truth.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Prophetic sourballs of insight, June 11, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: The Snakebite Letters: Devilishly Devious Secrets for Subverting Society as Taught in Tempter's Training School (Paperback)

A second set of diabolical dialog between a senior tempter (Snakebite) and his young protege (Braintwister) in the style of the Screwtape Letters of C.S. Lewis. He captures the tone and insight of the original masterpiece, giving short chapters of very funny and often uncomfortable insight into how easily we can find our best intentions twisted to serve evil ends, while still feeling "pious" and "spiritual."

This book more focuses on the institutional strategies - how the church can have its ends twisted, and still profess faithfulness. Such things as bad translations of scripture, bad and vapid worship music, emphasizing half of a truth and missing the whole, and so on. His chapters on the homosexualizing of the Catholic clergy, written 10 years ago, are worth reading in light of today's problems.

Much recommended.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Laugh and Cringe at the same moment, January 4, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: The Snakebite Letters: Devilishly Devious Secrets for Subverting Society as Taught in Tempter's Training School (Paperback)

This is a fabulous read. I could not put the book down until I knew just how the advice from one of the devil's hench-men to an underling would turn out. Kreeft is witty, out-right funny and deadly serious all at the same time. I was simultaneously laughing out loud and horrified to recognize my own behavior. How does an author make that possible? How could I not have known about this book earlier? The book is also full of truth and moral lessons, helpful in any age, but particularly difficult to find in the modern world and impossible to find in such an enjoyable manner.