Christopher J. Lane. <i>Callings and Consequences: The Making of Catholic Vocational Culture in Early Modern France</i>.
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Abstract
In Callings and Consequences: The Making of Catholic Vocational Culture in Early Modern France, Christopher Lane makes an argument that extends well beyond the study’s seventeenth century focus. In the “vocational rigorism” of early modern French clerics, Lane finds a significant root of Catholicism’s modern outlook on vocation and even modernity itself, demonstrating not only the energy of seventeenth century bishops, priests, and religious people (including a few abbesses) around vocation but also the enduring influence of their thought, if not all their concerns. He develops his argument succinctly and methodically, advising the reader that he will not be waylaid by biography unless it contributes to the questions at hand. Principal among them, how did early modern Catholic thought on vocation evolve to encompass not only religious but also secular life? The first chapter discusses developments in Catholicism related to vocation in the long sixteenth century. An important context for this discussion is the Protestant Reformation. Since Max Weber, Protestants have been granted a leading role in expanding the idea of vocation to secular pursuits, leaving behind the accepted view of early modern Catholic vocational thought as largely preoccupied with trying to improve the clergy. While the Tridentine Church did have a particular interest in clerical education and vocation, Lane argues that Catholic vocational thought in the long sixteenth century began to affirm the idea that one might be called to any of the three states of life: religious (monastic), clerical, or lay (married). To aid youths, Catholic thinkers, most notably Ignatius Loyola and François de Sales, proposed systematic methods of discernment. Additionally, the Council of Trent reaffirmed an individual’s liberty in vocational choice, a tenet of canon law since the twelfth century.
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.022 | 0.004 |
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