A Companion to German Pietism, 1660-1800

Shantz, Douglas H.

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“…From the late seventeenth until the late eighteenth century, Pietism continued to spread through Germany. Different Pietist communities, such as the Saalhof aristocrats, adopted their own particular religious rituals, while others, such as those in Tübingen and Iptingen, focused on strict morality and radical social responsibility (Ritschl 1800(Ritschl -1886Deppermann 1961;Marschke 2005;Shantz 2015). However, the eighteenth century was also a period in which Protestant orthodoxy and Pietism were challenged by the new enlightened philosophy of religion.…”

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From Contestation to Cooperation: The German Orthodox Church, Neo-Pietism and the Quest for an Alternative Ideal of the Nation

Avraham¹

2021

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The emergence of German neo-Pietism after the Napoleonic Wars appeared to contest the dominance of orthodox Protestantism, mainly in Prussia, but also in other German lands. However, nineteenth-century neo-Pietists forged a different kind of relationship with the orthodox than that of the early Pietists and the orthodox about two centuries earlier. Although challenging each other during the 1820s, from the 1830s onwards, neo-Pietists and the orthodox joined forces to confront rational theology, liberalism, and modern nationalism. This article departs from the existing scholarly discussion about these developments in arguing that the Pietist–orthodox alliance, which merged with political conservatism, did not necessarily apply a reactionary policy. Acknowledging the impact of the new liberal trends, these Christian devotees introduced an alternative national ideal that was based on their religious and political views. Invoking the ideal of a German Christian State, the rival Christian strands became woven into a modernized force which fostered a specific German national identity. This was characterized by ecumenical Christianity, a specific understanding of religion, a deep devotion to the German people, and nationalization of Judaism. Theirs was not a democratic nation-state, but an amalgamated model which combined a historic relation to Christianity with new efforts to redefine collective identity in a national age.

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