- Title Pages
- Frontispiece
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Acknowledgements
- Preface to the Fordham University Press Edition
- Preface
- Chronology
- Bibliographic Abbreviations
- Editor’s Note on the Text
- Part VI Logic and Methodology
- 21 Recent Logical Inquiries and Their Psychological Bearings
- 22 The Problem of Truth in the Light of Recent Discussion
- 23 The Mechanical, the Historical, and the Statistical
- 24 Mind
- 25 The Methodology of Science
- 26 Introduction to Poincaré’s Science and Hypothesis
- 27 Types of Order
- Part VII Moral and Religious Experience
- 28 The Problem of Job
- 29 The Philosophy of Loyalty
- 30 Individual Experience and Social Experience as Sources of Religious Insight
- 31 The Religious Mission of Sorrow
- Part VIII Community as Lived
- 32 Provincialism
- 33 Race Questions and Prejudices
- 34 On Certain Limitations of the Thoughtful Public in America
- 35 The Possibility of International Insurance
- 36 The Hope of the Great Community
- Annotated Bibliography of the Published Works of Josiah Royce
- Index
The Religious Mission of Sorrow
The Religious Mission of Sorrow
- Chapter:
- (p.1039) 31 The Religious Mission of Sorrow
- Source:
- The Basic Writings of Josiah Royce, Volume II
- Author(s):
- John J. McDermott
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
This chapter examines sorrow and the whole burden of human tribulation as a source of religious insight. The insight of which sorrow is the source is an insight that tends to awaken within a new view of what the spiritual realm is. This view is not in the least what some recent writers have blindly proclaimed it to be—a philosopher's artificial abstraction—a cruel effort to substitute a “soft” doctrine of the study for a moral and humane facing of the “hard” facts of human life. This view is the soul of the teaching of all the world's noblest and most practical guides to the most concrete living. This view faces hardness, it endures and overcomes. The chapter then considers why the existence of tragedy in human existence appears to many moods, and to many people, destructive of faith in any religious truth and a barrier against rational assurance regarding the ultimate triumph of anything good.
Keywords: sorrow, human tribulation, religious insight, spiritual realm, tragedy, faith, religious truth
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- Title Pages
- Frontispiece
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Acknowledgements
- Preface to the Fordham University Press Edition
- Preface
- Chronology
- Bibliographic Abbreviations
- Editor’s Note on the Text
- Part VI Logic and Methodology
- 21 Recent Logical Inquiries and Their Psychological Bearings
- 22 The Problem of Truth in the Light of Recent Discussion
- 23 The Mechanical, the Historical, and the Statistical
- 24 Mind
- 25 The Methodology of Science
- 26 Introduction to Poincaré’s Science and Hypothesis
- 27 Types of Order
- Part VII Moral and Religious Experience
- 28 The Problem of Job
- 29 The Philosophy of Loyalty
- 30 Individual Experience and Social Experience as Sources of Religious Insight
- 31 The Religious Mission of Sorrow
- Part VIII Community as Lived
- 32 Provincialism
- 33 Race Questions and Prejudices
- 34 On Certain Limitations of the Thoughtful Public in America
- 35 The Possibility of International Insurance
- 36 The Hope of the Great Community
- Annotated Bibliography of the Published Works of Josiah Royce
- Index
