{"id":10523078852902,"title":"Life on the Silent Planet: Essays on Christian Living from C.S. Lewis's Ransom Trilogy","handle":"life-on-the-silent-planet-essays-on-christian-living-from-c-s-lewiss-ransom-trilogy","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/8859\/5494\/files\/DavenantPress_logo-01.jpg?v=1698851619\" width=\"207\" height=\"55\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(57, 96, 71);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthors: Rhys Laverty, Michael Ward, Holly Ordway, Louis Markos, Joe Rigney, Jake Meador, Susannah Black-Roberts, Colin Redemer, Joseph Minich, Christina Hale\u003cspan class=\"author notFaded\" data-width=\"152\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(57, 96, 71);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN: \u003cspan lang=\"EN\"\u003e9781949716252\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(57, 96, 71);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN\"\u003ePages: 404\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThis book opened up the Ransom Trilogy to me like no other. If you read only one book on Lewis this year, read this one\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e.” - Joel Heck, Concordia Lutheran Seminary\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eYears before he wrote the Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis published another fantastical fiction series: the Ransom Trilogy. Yet these three novels – \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eOut of the Silent Planet\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePerelandra\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThat Hideous Strength\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e – have never enjoyed the same widespread popularity as Narnia or any of Lewis’s apologetical works, whether in mainstream culture or among Christians.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHowever, as the twenty-first century unfolds, readers are rediscovering the Ransom Trilogy as a vital and prophetic work for our cultural moment. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLife on the Silent Planet\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis a groundreaking collection of essays, bringing together an accomplished group of scholars and writers to discover and apply the insights of these novels to Christian living, particularly focussing on the unique vices and challenges of modernity. Fraught topics such as gender, contraception, bureaucracy, and transhumanism, often overlooked or shied away from in contemporary Christian teaching, were diagnosed and anticipated by Lewis with startling clarity in the 1930s and 40s. This volume seeks to bring these insights, woven into the rich imaginative world of the Ransom Trilogy, to bear upon the realities of the Christian life, enabling Christians to think deeply, live faithfully, and tune themselves again to the music of what Lewis called “the Great Dance” of creation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2026-04-29T11:46:19-04:00","created_at":"2026-04-29T11:46:18-04:00","vendor":"The Davenant Press","type":"Book","tags":["C.S. 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If you read only one book on Lewis this year, read this one\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e.” - Joel Heck, Concordia Lutheran Seminary\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eYears before he wrote the Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis published another fantastical fiction series: the Ransom Trilogy. Yet these three novels – \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eOut of the Silent Planet\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePerelandra\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThat Hideous Strength\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e – have never enjoyed the same widespread popularity as Narnia or any of Lewis’s apologetical works, whether in mainstream culture or among Christians.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHowever, as the twenty-first century unfolds, readers are rediscovering the Ransom Trilogy as a vital and prophetic work for our cultural moment. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLife on the Silent Planet\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis a groundreaking collection of essays, bringing together an accomplished group of scholars and writers to discover and apply the insights of these novels to Christian living, particularly focussing on the unique vices and challenges of modernity. Fraught topics such as gender, contraception, bureaucracy, and transhumanism, often overlooked or shied away from in contemporary Christian teaching, were diagnosed and anticipated by Lewis with startling clarity in the 1930s and 40s. This volume seeks to bring these insights, woven into the rich imaginative world of the Ransom Trilogy, to bear upon the realities of the Christian life, enabling Christians to think deeply, live faithfully, and tune themselves again to the music of what Lewis called “the Great Dance” of creation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":10409674375462,"title":"Sons of Adam, Daughters of Eve: C.S. Lewis' Images of Gender","handle":"sons-of-adam-daughter-of-eve-c-s-lewis-images-of-gender","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/8859\/5494\/files\/DavenantPress_logo-01.jpg?v=1698851619\" width=\"207\" height=\"55\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(35, 88, 66);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor: Joshua Phillip Herring\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(35, 88, 66);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN\"\u003ePages: 234\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN\"\u003eLewis presents the needed antidote to transgender ideology. Where transgender ideology proclaims that the individual should perceive himself as a self-created being, Lewis presents the human person within the doctrine of creation. As such, each human is made male or female. Lewis develops a neo-Platonic articulation of gender, where gender is “more real” than sex. By this articulation he means that sex is the result of the prior concepts of the masculine and the feminine. These terms exist first as ideas describing directionality. God is masculine towards humanity, in that he projects being towards us. Humanity (and all of creation) is feminine towards God because we receive being. These concepts exist first as ideas in the mind of God, and then manifest themselves biologically. In Perelandra, Lewis presents Malacandra as the incarnation of the masculine. Malacandra is sexless, yet masculine. His eyes look outward “as towards an ancient foe.” He is described as standing on the threshold, seeking to guard and protect the home. In contrast, Perelandra as the incarnated feminine has eyes that go inward, that thrum with life. The feminine is an inward orientation for creating conditions conducive to life. These images pair together. In That Hideous Strength, Lewis constructs the core problem of Mark and Jane’s marriage: Mark is insufficiently masculine, and Jane is insufficiently feminine. In their separate journeys, they each become more themselves. The novel closes with their mutual choosing of each other, letting Lewis suggest that the cosmic redemption achieved at Belbury is secondary to the redemption of a marriage. Lewis does not develop these concepts himself; rather, he inherits them primarily from Spenser and Milton. I show Lewis’s connections to both Spenser and Milton, and then trace Lewis’s further explication of gender in the Narniad. Lewis reminds his readers that all of reality, gender included, is a gift. The proper response of a gift is first to receive it, and then work out the potential within it. Lewis helps to reenchant the imagination to rightly perceive the complex nature of human beings. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJosh Herring \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eearned a BA from Hillsdale College in 2011, an MDiv from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in 2016, and a PhD in Humanities with Concentration in Literature from Faulkner University in 2023. After ten years in the classical classroom, Josh began teaching at Thales College, where he is now Professor of Humanities and Classical Education\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","published_at":"2026-03-19T11:56:53-04:00","created_at":"2026-02-20T12:08:52-05:00","vendor":"The Davenant Press","type":"Book","tags":["C.S. 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In contrast, Perelandra as the incarnated feminine has eyes that go inward, that thrum with life. The feminine is an inward orientation for creating conditions conducive to life. These images pair together. In That Hideous Strength, Lewis constructs the core problem of Mark and Jane’s marriage: Mark is insufficiently masculine, and Jane is insufficiently feminine. In their separate journeys, they each become more themselves. The novel closes with their mutual choosing of each other, letting Lewis suggest that the cosmic redemption achieved at Belbury is secondary to the redemption of a marriage. Lewis does not develop these concepts himself; rather, he inherits them primarily from Spenser and Milton. I show Lewis’s connections to both Spenser and Milton, and then trace Lewis’s further explication of gender in the Narniad. Lewis reminds his readers that all of reality, gender included, is a gift. The proper response of a gift is first to receive it, and then work out the potential within it. Lewis helps to reenchant the imagination to rightly perceive the complex nature of human beings. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJosh Herring \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eearned a BA from Hillsdale College in 2011, an MDiv from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in 2016, and a PhD in Humanities with Concentration in Literature from Faulkner University in 2023. After ten years in the classical classroom, Josh began teaching at Thales College, where he is now Professor of Humanities and Classical Education\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e"}