Christianizing the Pagan, and Vitalizing the Dead

Christian Humanism and the Grotesque in The Ransom Trilogy

This paper was presented at the Ciceronian Society conference in Omaha on March 12th, 2026. It’s a longer post (about a 15-20 minute read) and is truncated in your email. Be sure to open it in your browser or the Substack App to read the entire paper.

The Hideous Strength holds all this Earth in its fist to squeeze as it wishes. But for their one mistake…