The Relevance of Royce

Twelve Royce’s Relevance for Intrafaith Dialogue

An awareness is slowly growing that to attain world peace and security, world health, and basic human rights, we must promote a unity of spirit and an effective cooperation among the world's religions. The term "intra-faith" indicates the interpersonal relations between members of the world religions. This chapter investigates how several key aspects of Royce's philosophy-including his notions of the unity of spirit, the invisible church, his ethics and metaphysics, and his attention to the social arts of interpersonal relationships-may provide the basis to promote intra-faith dialogue.