![]() Tell me what Maleldil has done in Thulcandra.” But Ransom’s answer is interrupted before it begins, and we are left to wonder: what would he have said? The problem is exacerbated when we learn that Ransom spent that afternoon answering Oyarsa’s questions-a conversation to which we are not privy. ![]() ![]() In his Space Trilogy has painted his beliefs he has begun to. But of this we know less than you it is a thing we desire to look into.” Shortly after this, Oyarsa asks Ransom: “Now tell me of Thulcandra. Lewis, the famous author of Narnia tales, was an ardent atheist turned Christian. ![]() Like Thulcandra, Glundandra, Lurga and Neruval, it has its own moons. It is the main subject of Out of the Silent Planet. At a certain point in the story, Ransom learns that Oyarsa, the “angel” of Mars, knows that God (or Maleldil) “would not give up utterly to the Bent One, and there are stories among us that He has taken strange counsel and dared terrible things, wrestling with the Bent One in Thulcandra. Malacandra (known on Earth as Mars) is the fourth planet of The Field of Arbol and located between Thulcandra and Glundandra (Jupiter), just before the Dancers before the Threshold. Lewis’ Ransom Trilogy, our home is “Thulcandra-the silent planet,” for “it alone is outside the heaven, and no message comes from it.” That is to say, no message came from our planet, until Ransom was kidnapped, and brought to Malacandra (or Mars). Essay / Literature Silent No More: CS Lewis’ Cosmological Theory of the AtonementĪccording to C.S. ![]()
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