[I.]
Religion and Culture. (1959/60)
1. The technical pocedures (
2. The right to interrupt and the hope for short, typed
questions on the desk.
3. Not a popular lecture about everything and a little
bit more, but hard conceptual work. This especially nee-
ded with religion, about which everybody can say something.
(the difference to the scholastic and orthodox situation). This
good and bad. (fides implicita)
4. The relation of the semesters. Independence possible, but
continuation desirable, because the basic conceptual
work in the first semester; and the postponement of many
answers to the second semester.
[II.]
5. The plan for the first half of the first semester.
a] A lecture, showing the inner {conflict} tension of
leading to the necessity to distinguish the smaller and
the larger concept of religion (historically and systematically)
b] A lecture showing the ambiguities of religion
which produce the just and injust attacks on religion; these
ambiguities follow fom the inner tension of religion under
the conditions of man's predicament.
c] A lecture locating religion in the human
spirit. Locating means showing the relation to culture
and morality according to their essential unity.
d] showing the possible conflicts between these three
in their existential separation.
e] The idea of a