{"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"}