Inklings & Influences »
By Nan Rinella on Sep 9, 2009 in Book Review, Featured | 0 Comments
Review of The Company They Keep:
C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien as Writers in Community by Dr. Diana Pavlac Glyer
“No man is an island, entire of itself,” John Donne wrote in the 17th century, “Every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main . . .”
Everyone needs others. If God had meant us to do this life solo, He would have stopped with Adam.
In The Company They Keep: C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien as Writers in Community, Dr. 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. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, Owen Barfield, Hugo Dyson, R.E. Havard, David Cecil, Nevill Coghill, Warren Lewis, and others.
Charles Williams thought we should live by the principle that, everyone, all the time, owes his life to the lives and labor of others. He believed in co-inherence-the unity within the Trinity, of all Christian believers, and of divine and human in the Incarnation.
The story of the Inklings gives us an exceptional example of the elements of influence and encouragement.
