Callings and Consequences: The Making of a Catholic Vocational Culture in Early Modern France
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Christopher Lane’s study offers a fresh perspective on the topic of vocation or ‘calling’ in the context of Catholicism. Lane argues that earlier teachings and practices about vocation, which traditionally had focussed on decisions to join the secular or regular clergy, intensified and expanded amid Catholicism’s ‘rigorist turn’ in seventeenth-century France. The result was a set of beliefs and practices concerning vocational discernment which has had a global impact on the modern era. As noted in Introduction and Chapter 1, Catholicism’s culture of vocation prior to the seventeenth century had centred on the importance of discerning God’s will as it pertained to pursuing a religious calling, which typically meant becoming an ordained cleric or joining a religious order. The Protestant and Catholic Reformations of the sixteenth century, however, emphasized eliminating corruption and sustaining Christian believers, families and communities in practicing a purer faith. This effort depended on everyone—clergy and laity, men and women, nobles and commoners—fulfilling their proper role in a divinely ordered plan to achieve a reformed church and society. In the context of the Catholic Reformation, the Council of Trent’s decrees, along with the writings of Ignatius of Loyola and François de Sales, laid the sixteenth-century foundations for the development of seventeenth-century vocational discernment: the task of selecting one’s path in life in accordance with God’s will.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.015 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".