Pietism and the Making of Eighteenth-Century Prussia
This book sees the rise of Prussia to great-power status in the first half of the eighteenth century as resulting from a revolutionary change in the Prussian political culture. The campaign to inculcate the new ideology of disciplined energetic obedience to the state authority derived in essence from Lutheran Pietism, a German version of ascetic Protestantism.This work is the first to describe systematically how the collaboration between Pietism and the Prussian state not only led to an...
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This work describes the relationship between Pietism and the rise of the Prussian state.
Introduction11The German territorial state in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries142Reformed confessionalism and the reign of the great Elector363The nature of the pre-1713 Hohenzollern state604Lutheran confessionalism805Spenerian Pietism1046From Spener to Francke1217Halle Pietism I: ideology and indoctrination1508Halle Pietism II: growth and crisis1769Pietist-Hohenzollern collaboration20010The impact of Pietist pedagogy on the Prussian army and bureaucracy22311Civilian mobilization and economic development during the reign of Frederick William I.247Conclusion270Bibliography285Index301
