[164] these are sociological movements and often very profound psychological-emotional things behind it. All this is true. But there is much more behind it. This "much more" is the really important thing about it, otherwise the emotion could die down, as they always do after a certain time, and we could live in peace ever after. But this is not the case. The problem remains and is going on all the time, and it is a problem of ultimate religious significance, the problem about the structure of our reality^a: whether our reality is as paganism ^bmostly has seen it, as Manichaenism^c has expressed it, in the most radical and powerful way, namely that the God who has saving power is ANOTHER God than the God who has created this miserable world! And I tell you there are more amongst us who, without using this terminology, have such feelings about the state of things. There are MANY people who FEEL that the world is a failure--- and l understand that---and that if there is salvation^d, it must be salvation OUT of the world and not IN the world. Therefore the world, including the greatest in it---as for instance the arts, sciences, history, philosophy---has to be sacrificed. Now this is the one possibility, and against this possibility l am talking here, during these WHOLE lectures, from the first hour on to the last next semester. The other possibility is that one follows the Old and New Testament thinking, that one believes in the goodness of creation-as-creation^e, and the structures of mind and reality, and that one believes that the miserable state of the world which no one can deny, is a matter of creaturely freedom^f---perhaps unavoidable if the creature shall reach his fulfillment, but in any case is not a