 The concrete human evil of treason is that the traitor’s loyalty to the cause, and with it the moral relations that bound the community together, have been broken and cannot be restored to their previous state. “Moral theories” of atonement account for change in the traitor’s person but fail to explain how the “wounded or shattered community” can be repaired (Royce 1913 [2001, 175]). Such theories, in Royce’s account, explain that in contemplating Christ’s willing sacrifice of his own life for the sake of the human community, the sinner experiences deep repentance and develops a new capacity for love of the betrayed community. The sinner’s soul is purified and made better (Royce 1913 [2001, 172]). Such a process may bring the sinner to realize the hellish magnitude of irrevocable treason. Royce pointed out, though, that such a process by itself does nothing to reconcile the sinner to the community or to repair that community. Such reconciliation and healing requires something more than a change in the individual’s heart.