“We owed each a great debt to the other.” (Tolkien) “What I owe them is incalculable.” (Lewis) This heartening gift is absolutely essential to the very existence of any work. In Chapter Three we read about “Resonators,” which “refers to anyone who acts as a friendly, interested, supportive audience.” They show interest, give feedback, express praise, offer encouragement, contribute practical help, and promote the work of others. The story of the Inklings gives us an exceptional example of the elements of influence and encouragement. He believed in co-inherence-the unity within the Trinity, of all Christian believers, and of divine and human in the Incarnation. Havard, David Cecil, Nevill Coghill, Warren Lewis, and others.Ĭharles Williams thought we should live by the principle that, everyone, all the time, owes his life to the lives and labor of others. Tolkien, Charles Williams, Owen Barfield, Hugo Dyson, R.E. Diana Pavlac Glyer has written about the community shared by the Inklings and the influence it had on the lives and works of individual members – C.S. If God had meant us to do this life solo, He would have stopped with Adam. “No man is an island, entire of itself,” John Donne wrote in the 17 th century, “Every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. Lewis Southwest Regional Retreat page.Ĭ.S. Note: the following blog post is a repost from our 2009 Southwest Regional Retreat Writers Workshop blog.
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