Publications

Juan R. Vélez, A Guide to John Henry Newman: His Life and Thought, chapter 10, The Catholic University of America Press, Washington, D.C., 2022, pp. 157–⁠173

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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

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

Christopher J. Lane

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

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Academic Book Reviews

Review of Planting the Cross: Catholic Reform and Renewal in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century France, by Barbara B. Diefendorf

Christopher J. Lane

Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture, vol. 89(2), 2020, pp. 464–465

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Review of Fealty and Fidelity: The Lazarists of Bourbon France, 1660–1736, by Seán Alexander Smith

Christopher J. Lane

The Sixteenth Century Journal, vol. 48(3), 2017, pp. 737–739

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Review of Catholic Particularity in Seventeenth-Century French Writing: ‘Christianity is Strange’, by Richard Parish

Christopher J. Lane

The Sixteenth Century Journal, vol. 43(3), 2012, pp. 941⁠–⁠942

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Review of On Time, Punctuality, and Discipline in Early Modern Calvinism, by Max Engammare, translated by Karin Maag

Christopher J. Lane

The Sixteenth Century Journal, vol. 42(3), 2011, pp. 828⁠–⁠830

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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

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

Interviews (not recorded)

Interview (as Editor of Principles)

Jennifer Fulwiler, Christopher J. Lane

The Jennifer Fulwiler Show, Catholic Channel, SiriusXM, 2017 May 5

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

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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