Both Uses of
sacrament
in
The Screwtape Letters
- Provided that meetings, pamphlets, policies, movements, causes, and crusades, matter more to him than prayers and sacraments and charity, he is ours—and the more "religious" (on those terms) the more securely ours.†
Chpt 7sacraments = important Christian ceremonies such as baptism and communion
- For the real presence of the Enemy, otherwise experienced by men in prayer and sacrament, we substitute a merely probable, remote, shadowy, and uncouth figure, one who spoke a strange language and died a long time ago.†
Chpt 23 *sacrament = an important Christian ceremony such as baptism or communion