Ep 2 - Lewis's Ransom Trilogy and Deeper Heaven with Christiana Hale

Digressio: Inherit the Humanities

Everybody knows Narnia, but fewer have ventured into C.S. Lewis's science fiction series, wrongly called "The Space Trilogy". Teacher, author, and Lewis scholar, Christiana Hale shares her knowledge of Lewis, the Discarded Image, and the deeper meaning behind the trilogy.
Ep 2 - Deeper Heaven & Lewis’ Ransom Trilogy

1. Deeper Heaven
2. Silent Planet, Perelandra, Hideous Strength
3. Foreword from Douglas Wilson
4. Christiana’s introduction to Lewis
5. Why does the Ransom Trilogy need a reader’s guide?
6. Why Lewis wrote the Ransom Trilogy
7. Copernican vs. Ptolemaic universes & medieval cosmology
8. The cosmos & story arc of the ransom trilogy
9. The influence of the planets & astrology
10. The Discarded Image in the Trilogy
11. “Donegality” in Ransom Trilogy & Narnia (Planet Narnia + The Narnia Code)
12. Deeper Heaven’s audience & outline
13. Christiana’s “Recovering the Discarded Image” from Digressio Magazine 2019
14. Why is That Hideous Strength so different from the first two?
15. Abolition of Man , education, and enlightenment rationalism
16. Conclusion

Questions and Suggestions Form