Introduction: Encountering Josiah Royce's ethico-religious insight -- Josiah Royce's personalism -- The "conception of God" debate : setting the stage for Royce's personalism -- Haunted by Howison's criticism : the birth of Royce's late philosophy -- Royce's late philosophy -- Royce's personalism -- Extending Royce' s ethico-religious insight : Royce on the beloved community, agape, and human temporality -- Royce's ethico-religious insight : a hypothetical postulate? -- King's beloved community, Royce' s metaphysics -- Coupling Royce's temporalism with Levinasian insights.