Book Club - CS Lewis's Ransom Trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet (Week 1)

We are back for another Dojo Book Club! Over the next 6 weeks we will be reading the first of CS Lewis's novels in his Ransom Trilogy, "Out of the Silent Planet"! (Note that I called it the RANSOM trilogy...NOT the "Space" Trilogy! We talk about that in this first session!) Here is our reading schedule for those who are following along: * Aug 25 - Intro Lecture - Re-enchanting the Cosmos: CS Lewis and the Planets * Sept 1 - Discussion of chapters1-6 * Sept 8 - Discussion of chapters 7-9 * Sept 15 - Discussion of chapters 10-14 * Sept 22 - Discussion of chapters 15-18 * Sept 29 - Discussion of chapters 19-22 & The Postscript For why the Ransom Trilogy is my favorite of all Lewis' works, see: https://youtu.be/MKSGy4eHXPU Books mentioned: * The Space Trilogy (75th Anniversary Edition): https://www.amazon.com/Space-Trilogy-C-S-Lewis/dp/0007528418/ * The Discarded Image - https://www.amazon.com/Discarded-Image-Introduction-Renaissance-Literature-ebook/dp/B00DB3FVCK/ * Planets in Peril - https://www.amazon.com/Planets-Peril-Critical-Lewiss-Trilogy/dp/087023997X * Deeper Heaven: A Reader’s Guide to C.S. Lewis’s Ransom Trilogy - https://www.amazon.com/Deeper-Heaven-Readers-Lewiss-Trilogy/dp/1944482563 * Life on the Silent Planet - https://www.amazon.com/Life-Silent-Planet-Christian-Trilogy/dp/1949716252/ * Planet Narnia - https://www.amazon.com/Planet-Narnia-Seven-Heavens-Imagination/dp/019973870X/ * Dante's Divine Comedy - https://www.amazon.com/Divine-Comedy-Purgatorio-Paradiso-Everymans/dp/0679433139/ --- ***Disciple Dojo shirts and other gifts are available over in our online store! - https://www.zazzle.com/discipledojo ***Become a monthly Dojo Donor and help keep us going! - https://www.discipledojo.org/donate ***Dojo Donor Patches: If you are a monthly donor and would like an iron-on DiscipleDojo patch, supplies are limited so message JM directly via the contact page at https://www.discipledojo.org/contact ***If you are an unmarried Christian looking for community, check out our Facebook group “The Grownup’s Table” over at www.facebook.com/groups/grownupstable ------ Go deeper at www.discipledojo.org   Subscribe to the Disciple Dojo podcast for more in-depth teaching and discussions:  SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/discipledojo   Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/26BDZz70HmnT5eoD9BEKQ7   iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/disciple-dojo/id1002934837 Amazon - https://tinyurl.com/uz8dbfet