Book
Callings and Consequences: The Making of Catholic Vocational Culture in Early Modern France
Christopher J. Lane
McGill-Queen’s University Press, Montreal & Kingston, 2021
Essays
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
Everything She Had: The Widow’s Mite of St. Jeanne de Chantal
Christopher J. Lane
Crisis Magazine, 2012 Aug 13
Interviews (written)
Ideas in progress: Christopher J. Lane on teaching, vocation, and the stress of discerning a calling
Nadya Williams, Christopher J. Lane
Current, 2023 Aug 10
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
Christopher J. Lane
The Catholic Historical Review, vol. 109(4), 2023, pp. 659–684
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
Vocational Freedom, Parental Authority and Pastoral Persuasion in Seventeenth-Century France
Christopher J. Lane
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, vol. 69(4), 2018
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
Christopher J. Lane
Society for French Historical Studies Annual Conference, Indianapolis, Ind., 2019 Apr 5
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
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