Grace, Talent, and Merit : Poor Students, Clerical Careers, and Professional Ideology in Eighteenth-Century Germany (Paperback)

Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. Poor Students: 1. Realities and stereotypes; 2. Initiations; 3. The patronage chain: structure and ideology; 4. The Hofmeister; Part II. Calling, Vocation, and Service: 5. The calling: August Hermann Francke and Halle Pietism; 6. Vocation: the natural self and the ethic of reason; 7. Meritocracy: language and ideology; 8. The egalitarian alternative: theory and practice; Part III. New Departures: 9. Orthodoxies and new idioms; 10. Professional ideologies: the making of a teaching corps; 11. The clerical identity; 12. Radical visions: Johann Gottlieb Fichte; Epilogue; Bibliographical notes; Index.