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Pietism and the Making of Eighteenth-Century Prussia. By Richard L. Gawthrop. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 1993. Pp. xiii + 305. $54.95. ISBN 0-521-43183-2.

In this study Gawthrop examines the Brandenburg-Prussian variant of the Weber thesis: the role of Lutheran ascetic Pietism in the formation of the Prussian state and the "Prussian spirit." Pietism for Gawthrop is the "hitherto underestimated cultural factor" which generated the profound "cultural revolution" that transformed Brandenburg-Prussia during the reign of Friedrich Wilhelm I (1713—1740). This revolution involved the enormous growth of state power and wealth, simultaneous with the "propagation and pervasive acceptance of an ideology of unconditional service to the state." A number of important themes shape Gawthrop's account. In chronological order he explores the development of the German territorial state in the wake of the Thirty Years' War; the evolution of Protestantism and especially Lutheranism after the Reformation; the formation of the Prussian variant of Pietism principally through the writings and careers of Philip Spener and August Francke; and the consolidation of power by the Hohenzollern rulers themselves, who, though committed Calvinists, came to recognize and favor Pietist spirituality as buttressing their own authority.