During his lifetime, Novalis wrote two works on political themes, "Faith and Love or the King and Queen" and his speech "Europa", which was posthumously named "Christianity or Europe". In addition to their political focus, both works share a common theme of poetically arguing for the importance of "faith and love" to achieve human and communal unification. Because these works poetically address political concerns, their meaning continues to be the subject of disagreement. Their interpretation have ranged from being seen as reactionary manifestos celebrating hierarchies to utopian dreams of human solidarity.