Jan. 25: Life on the Silent Planet
No meeting in December - Best wishes for a wonderful Advent and Christmas!
On Sunday, Jan. 25, 4:00-5:30 p.m., we'll begin our discussion of Life on the Silent Planet: Essays on Christian Living from C. S. Lewis's Ransom Trilogy. The subtitle gives the focus of the book. Editor Rhys Laverty says, "All of [the chapters], even those more scholarly ones, have remained firmly on task in applying Lewis's work to the topic of Christian living" (xxii). The structure of the book is an Introduction followed by three sections, one for each of the books in the Ransom Trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet (1938), Perelandra (1943), and That Hideous Strength (1945).
Let's refer to these books as the Ransom Trilogy. While Amazon.com and AbeBooks.com list them under the term Space Trilogy, Lewis folk including Rhys Laverty prefer to call them the Ransom Trilogy or the Cosmic Trilogy.
We'll spend three months or more on Life on the Silent Planet. At our Jan. 25 meeting, we will begin with the Introduction and the three essays on Out of the Silent Planet.
Introduction: The Discarded Image by Rhys Laverty
Which Way, Weston Man? Good, Evil, and Cosmological Models in Out of the Silent Planet by Louis Markos
The Education of Dr. Ransom: First Steps from Pedestrian to Pendragon by Joe Rigney
Men Are From Mars: Masculinity in Out of the Silent Planet by Colin Smothers
Life on the Silent Planet is edited by Rhys Laverty, with essays contributed by a wonderful mix of established and rising C. S. Lewis scholars.
Josh Herring host of The Optimistic Curmudgeon interviews Rhys Laverty on Life on the Silent Planet, and Steve Beebe on C. S. Lewis and Communication.
Earth's Holocaust by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1844) was mentioned by Andrew Brummett at the November meeting. Here is a description from Project Gutenberg.
Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal, Volume 19.1 (2025) contains the article "Teaching The Abolition of Man" by Joel Heck, Rob Koons, and Josiah Peterson. It is now available from Wipf and Stock Publishers.
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