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The Snakebite Letters: Devilishly Devious Secrets for Subverting Society as Taught in Tempter's Training School

The Snakebite Letters imagines a veteran tempter instructing a novice in the craft of leading people away from faith. Written as a series of letters, the book reads like a training manual for devils, with a senior demon offering advice on how to disguise temptation as reasonable, progressive or even virtuous thinking. Its targets are the everyday habits of modern life: how people reason, what they assume is harmless, and how easily they can be persuaded that God is irrelevant. Peter Kreeft borrows the playful letter form of C. S. Lewis's classic and turns the joke into a serious examination of how temptation works and why Christians should learn to recognise it.

Audience
adult
Length
short · 155 pages

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