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Article: Pietism and the Making of Eighteenth-Century Prussia.
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- Canadian Journal of History
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- August 1, 1994
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By Richard L. Gawthorp. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1993. xiii, 305 pp. $54.95 U.S.
German Pietism has been identified with English and American Puritanism. The political systems in which these Protestant religious movements functioned were worlds apart, even if they shared a common bard work ethos. Richard Gawthorp has studied Brandenburg-Prussian Pietism in particular, although this movement within the German Lutheran Church was popular in other sections of Germany too.
As H.H. Hofmann did a generation earlier, Richard Gawthorp argues that Halle's Pietism became the basis for the state "ideology" of the Prussian king, Frederick William I, and ...