Absolutely Pietist

Patronage, Factionalism, and State-Building in the Early Eighteenth-Century Prussian Army Chaplaincy

by Benjamin Marschke

Book cover: Absolutely Pietist

Extent: 216 pages

Publisher: Harrassowitz Verlag

Subjects: Twentieth- & Twenty-First- Century History

Series: Hallesche Forschungen

Series volume number: 16

Language: English

Paperback (Out of print)

(December 2005)

ISBN: 9783447063517

6.06 x 9.06 inches

Price: $43.00

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The Prussian army chaplaincy was transformed from a disorganized, unofficial apparatus into a bureaucratized, centralized, and hierarchical state organ as part of the collaboration between August Hermann Francke (1663-1727) and King Friedrich Wilhelm I (1688-1740), but it was the Pietists who were the driving force behind these institutionalization, not the monarchy. Francke and his allies created a state organ as a new power base and means of accessing Friedrich Wilhelm in order to check their various opponents at court, to further expand their own patronage system in Prussia, and even to sabotage the Soldier King`sown religious policies.

  • By (author) Benjamin Marschke