Christopher John Lane

Writer, Professor, Student of Christian Cultures

Talks & Media


Recorded Talks

Approaching Difficult Questions in Church History


Christopher J. Lane

Christendom College Online Courses, Christendom College, Front Royal, Va., 2024


Inculturation and the Evangelization of China


Christopher J. Lane

Principles Live Lecture, Christendom College, Front Royal, Va., 2024 May 28


Newman, Anglo-Catholicism, and the Anglican Patrimony


Christopher J. Lane

St. John Henry Newman Lecture Series, Christendom College, Front Royal, Va., 2019 Oct 31

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

Talks (not recorded)

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


Vocation, Fear, and the Decline of Hell


Christopher J. Lane

Annual Senior Dinner Faculty Talk, Christendom College, Front Royal, Va., 2019


Persecution and the Underground Church in Japan


Christopher J. Lane

IHM National Conference, Fredericksburg, Va., 2017 Jun 24


How Persecuted Catholics Preserved the Church in Japan for 200 Years


Christopher J. Lane

International Catholic Lay Leadership Forum Workshops, Springtime of Faith Foundation, Manchester, Tenn., 2017 Apr 29


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


Christopher J. Lane

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

Academic Conference Papers

Memory, Reconciliation, and Patrimony: The Case of Anglicanism and the Ordinariates


Christopher John Lane

Eternity in Time: Thinking with the Church through History, Christendom College, Front Royal Va., 2026 Feb 21


Sources for Thinking about Historical Thinking


Christopher John Lane

Renewing Catholic Liberal Education: Sources, Narratives, and Principles, Christendom College, Front Royal, Va., 2025 May 27


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