Pietism and the Making of Eighteenth-Century Prussia

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Hardcover | 20 December 1993

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How did as small and backward a state as Prussia transform itself to compete successfully in war against states with far greater human and financial resources? Richard Gawthrop finds the answer to this perennial question in the creation of a unique political culture, in which service to the Prussian state took precedence over all other relationships and commitments. The campaign to inculcate the new ideology of disciplined energetic obedience to the state authority derived its moral vision and institutional forms from Lutheran Pietism, a German version of ascetic Protestantism strongly influenced by English Puritanism. This work is the first to describe systematically how the collaboration between Pietism and the Prussian state not only led to an increase in the latter's power but also laid the cultural basis for the subsequent political modernisation of Germany.

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Preface
Introduction
The German territorial state in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
Reformed confessionalism and the reign of the Great Elector
The nature of the pre-1713 Hohenzollern state
Lutheran confessionalism
Spenerian Pietism
From Spener to Francke
Halle Pietism I: ideology and indoctrination
Halle Pietism II: growth and crisis
Pietist-Hohenzollern collaboration
The impact of Pietist pedagogy on the Prussian army and bureaucracy
Civilian mobilization and economic development during the reign of Frederick William I
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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