by Dwayne A. Tunstall (Get the Book)One hundred years ago, Harvard philosopher Josiah Royce was the most important speculative thinker in the English-speaking world about Christian philosophical ethics. Tunstall (Grand Valley State) offers an intensive examination of Royce's general theological system and his radical ethics of loyalty. Theologians may take greater interest in Royce's pioneering efforts to reconcile God's supreme divinity with the full reality of human souls and personalities. Royce's idealistic metaphysics was challenged by charges of pantheism and absolutism, and it was especially challenged by fellow personalists to guarantee that the individual has independent freedom and responsibility. Royce sought a reconciliation in a God communing with people and people's striving for ethical improvement, a God of ethical ideals and especially the supreme ideal of "loyalty to loyalty." Those who strive for moral improvement by staying loyal to ideals, and to those fellow human beings pursuing ideals, together build the "beloved community." Tunstall then discusses the influence of Royce's thought on Martin Luther King Jr., and some intersections with the views of Levinas. --Choice
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