Christopher John Lane

Writer, Professor, Student of Christian Cultures

On Vocation


Book



Essays


Limitless Wishing and its Discontents


Christopher J. Lane

Front Porch Republic, 2024 Apr 29


Counsels vs. Commands in Vocational Discernment


Christopher J. Lane

Homiletic & Pastoral Review, 2024 Mar 30


Vocational Discernment in Early Modern France


Christopher J. Lane

Instaurare: The Christendom College Quarterly Magazine, vol. 22(3), 2014 Oct, p. 21


Trusting in God with St. Francis de Sales


Christopher J. Lane

Crisis Magazine, 2013 Dec 30


The Holy Household of Louis and Zélie Martin


Christopher J. Lane

Crisis Magazine, 2013 Jul 11


Everything She Had: The Widow’s Mite of St. Jeanne de Chantal


Christopher J. Lane

Crisis Magazine, 2012 Aug 13


Interviews (written)


Callings, consequences, and vocational crises


Rachel Hoover Canto, Christopher J. Lane

Catholic World Report, 2023 Feb 2


Interviews & Podcasts (recorded)


Legacy Episode 6: The Historian and Vocation with Dr. Christopher J. Lane


Mark Rohlena, Christopher J. Lane

Christendom Conversations, Christendom College, Front Royal, Va., 2023 Nov 16


Peer-reviewed articles and book chapters


Vocational Culture in the Anglican Patrimony and the Ordinariates: Toward a Ressourcement


Christopher J. Lane

Lux Veritatis: A Journal of Speculative Theology, vol. 2(1), 2025, pp. 134–164


Rigorism and Clericalism in the Vocational Discernment Culture of the Nineteenth-Century Catholic Revival


Christopher J. Lane

The Catholic Historical Review, vol. 109(4), 2023, pp. 659⁠–⁠684

DOI

Gentle Holiness in the Vocational Culture of Seventeenth-Century French Visitandine Nuns


Christopher J. Lane

Jenni Kuuliala, Rose-Marie Peake, Päivi Räisänen-Schröder, Lived Religion and Everyday Life in Early Modern Hagiographic Material, chapter 3, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, pp. 51–75

DOI

Vocational Freedom, Parental Authority and Pastoral Persuasion in Seventeenth-Century France


Christopher J. Lane

The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, vol. 69(4), 2018

DOI

Talks (not recorded)


George Herbert's The Country Parson: A Catholic Perspective on an Anglican Treasure


Christopher John Lane

Faculty Colloquium, Christendom College, Front Royal, Va., 2026 Mar 27


Vocational Liberty as Catholic Social Teaching: Historical Context and Doctrinal Development


Christopher J. Lane

Las Casas Institute, Blackfriars Hall, Oxford University, Oxford, U.K., 2023 May 18


Between Rigorism and Coercion: Vocational Discernment in Seventeenth-century France


Christopher J. Lane

Library Lecture Series, Christendom College, Front Royal, Va., 2012 Oct 23


Conference Papers


Vocational Culture in the Anglican Patrimony and the Ordinariates


Christopher J. Lane

Littlemore Forum, 2024 Oct 11


17th-Century Vocational Rigorism and the Transnational 19th-Century Catholic Revival


Christopher J. Lane

American Catholic Historical Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, La., 2022 Jan 8


‘Led by divine providence’: Methods vs. Circumstances in Seventeenth-Century French Catholic Vocational Discernment Advice


Christopher J. Lane

Society for French Historical Studies Annual Conference, Indianapolis, Ind., 2019 Apr 5


The Experience of Vocational Discernment as Seen in Obituary Letters of Seventeenth-Century French Nuns


Christopher J. Lane

Colloquium on “Lived Religious Experience and Everyday Life through Early Modern Hagiographic Material,” Finnish Institute, Villa Lante, Rome, Italy, 2018 May 26


‘The views and designs of his providence’: Catholic Frameworks for Lay Vocation in Seventeenth-Century France


Christopher J. Lane

American Society of Church History Spring Meeting, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 2016 Apr 8


Childhood Piety and the Choice of a State of Life in Seventeenth-Century French Catholicism


Christopher J. Lane

Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Ft. Worth, Tex., 2011 Oct 28


Vocation in Education: Choosing a State in Life in Seventeenth-century France


Christopher J. Lane

Center for Renaissance Studies Graduate Student Conference, “Education: Forming and Deforming the Premodern Mind,” Newberry Library, Chicago, Ill., 2009 Jan 23


By What Authority? Vocational Legitimacy in Francophone Reformed Writings


Christopher J. Lane

Western Society for French History Conference, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, 2008 Nov 7


Advocates for Women? Clerical Outcry Against Vocational Coercion in Seventeenth-century France


Christopher J. Lane

Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2006 Oct 26