Ep. 85: The Hinge of the Universe

Young Heretics

Spencer Klavan

Society & Culture, Education

4.9 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

In the second book of the Ransom trilogy, C.S. Lewis imagines what it would have been like if Eve got a second chance in the Garden of Eden. In this episode of Young Heretics, Spencer Klavan reads from this rip-roaring tale of demonic possession and space travel to tell a Christmas story about the cosmic power of one human choice to change the world.

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0:00.0	The question of today is, what if Eve never fell?
0:09.2	And since it's the Christian's episode, I have a present for all of you.
0:12.6	We are extending our sale at the merch store, youngheretics.com,
0:16.4	forward slash shop where you can get all our merch, t-shirts, hats, really great
0:20.7	quality stuff. The we're reading Homer and screw you t-shirt is available exclusively there.
0:25.6	And everything is 20% off when you use the promo code cheers.
0:29.0	It's a new, new year's promo through January 15th.
0:32.5	Use the promo code cheers. You'll get all this great stuff.
0:35.0	20% off. You can own the lips. You can wear, show your pride.
0:39.0	And wear the young heretics hat, of course, to the gym.
0:42.0	Youngheretics.com, forward slash shop promo code cheers.
0:45.8	Everything is 20% off.
0:47.4	We're talking about the second book in CS Lewis's space trilogy.
0:52.0	Last week, we did out of the silent planet, which is the story of
0:55.7	Ellwyn Ransom's voyage to Mars. Now we're talking about
0:59.7	Peralendra, which is the name in old solar, which is the space language or the
1:04.3	heavenly language, the name for Venus.
1:07.3	And book to Chronicles, Ransom's voyage back into space,
1:11.6	to visit Venus, which is what we might call a young world, meaning that
1:16.5	new creation is just beginning on the world.
1:19.4	In the form of rational life, we talked last week about the rational animal,
1:23.6	which is man, but which in this story is also all the aliens that can use
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