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cey-3054	Vowels, Grace	An Enlightenment of Spirit: Pietism and Prussian Politics	2020	12	.pdf	application/pdf	6058	214	42	The emphasis on suffering as purification and stoicism through pain, shown by the mention of “suffer[ing] in stillness,” is a direct continuation of the ascetism advocated for both by Pietists and the Prussian state.55 Other hymns make mention of sitting at God’s feet and kissing his scepter, images evoking devotion to the king of heaven, but also highly reminiscent of devotion to one’s earthly rulers.56 However, the connections between Pietist literature and Prussian state values do not end in similarities expressed in hymns but also in the exhortations put forth for believers to follow in Pietist theologian Johann Friedrich Starck’s 1728 Daily Handbook for Days of Joys and Sorrow.57 Exhortations are reflections and suggestions of ways in which the reader can live a more godly and Christian life. Long a Protestant territory, the majority of the people in the kingdom were Lutherans, which interestingly contrasted with the Calvinist faith of Prussia’s rulers, who belonged to the Hohenzollern dynasty.20 Initially, the relationship to Pietism was tenuous, as Pietist doctrine strayed from the orthodoxy as the established Lutheran state Church.	cache/cey-3054.pdf	txt/cey-3054.txt