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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]