Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / John Stroup -- Preface / John Stroup -- Abbreviations / John Stroup -- Introduction The German Protestant Clergyman in the Eighteenth Century / John Stroup -- Chapter One The Clerical Establishment in Northwest Germany / John Stroup -- Chapter Two Secularist Attack and Protestant Clerical Response in Northwest Germany before 1760 / John Stroup -- Chapter Three Secularist Pressures and Protestant Clerical Response in Northwest Germany 1760-1786 / John Stroup -- Chapter Four Radical Secularist Pressures and Protestant Clerical Resistance in Northwest Germany after 1785 / John Stroup -- Chapter Five Protestant Clerical Identity in Northwest Germany on the Eve of the Napoleonic Invasion / John Stroup -- Conclusion / John Stroup -- Appendix A The Temporal Framework: Economic, Political, and Social Conditions in Electoral Hannover and Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel / John Stroup -- Appendix B Johann Friedrich Jacobi / John Stroup -- Appendix C Helmstedt Theology at the Time of Campe / John Stroup -- Appendix D Support for the Plans of Campe and Like-Minded Writers / John Stroup -- Appendix E The Socio-Political Function of the Concept of “Bildung” / John Stroup -- Appendix F Particularist Opposition to Campe’s Plans in Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel / John Stroup -- Appendix G Velthusen’s Campaign against Campe / John Stroup -- Appendix H Pressures toward Particularist Reaction in Electoral Hannover / John Stroup -- Appendix I Conditions in the “Kingdom of Westphalia” after the French Invasion / John Stroup -- Appendix J “Elitist” Tendencies in School Administration / John Stroup -- Appendix K Traditionalist Success at Göttingen / John Stroup -- Appendix L The Kantian Background to the Hannoverian “Pastoral—Instruction” / John Stroup -- Appendix M The Juristic Counterattack in Electoral Hannover / John Stroup -- Appendix N Synods of the Clergy / John Stroup -- Bibliography / John Stroup -- Index of Names / John Stroup -- Index of Subjects / John Stroup.

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