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which also is so important in a world which has lost older types of authority and is looking for new types, the question of authority generally, the different types of it—here again psychology, theology and ethics work together and often against each other. Then very special problems of social ethics: family relations and sex relations.
After ethics we come to economics, the meaning of economy in, for instance, a term like economic materialism. This leads immediately to the problems of religion and the social gospel, religion and religious socialism; the basic ideas which have developed in many periods of history—their limitations and their meaning.
We then come to the political realm, but first in a more fundamental way, and I repeat the title of a book of mine, only in the opposite order: Justice, Power and Love—the question of the law-school problems in relationship to theology.
Then come the last lectures, religion and the political systems: democracy, totalitarianism, conservatism, feudalism, aristocracy, and many others. Then the great problems—which 20 years ago was almost the only problem in theology—namely religious pacifism, the question of peace, in religion.
Finally, if we are able to do it, I want to conclude the whole problem with the relation of state and church.
This is the outline, and of course I am willing to enlarge or shorten any of these realms. This depends largely on the intensity of your questioning or the interruptions of other newly-invented holidays! [some laughter]