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Subject(s)

• Catholic Church—Clergy—Appointment, call, and election [Browse]
• Vocation, Ecclesiastical—History of doctrines [Browse]
• Vocation—Catholic Church—History of doctrines [Browse]
• Reformation—France [Browse]
• France—Church history [Browse]

Series

• McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion. Series two ; 91. [More in this series]
• McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion. Series two ; 91 [More in this series]

Summary note

"The concept of vocation in an early modern setting calls to mind the priesthood or religious life in a monastery or cloister; to be "called" by God meant to leave the concerns of the world behind. Beginning in the mid-seventeenth century, French Catholic clergy began to promote the innovative idea that everyone, even an ordinary layperson, was called to a vocation or "state of life" and that discerning this call correctly had implications for one's happiness and salvation, and for the social good. In Callings and Consequences Christopher Lane analyzes the origins, growth, and influence of a culture of vocation that became a central component of the Catholic Reformation and its legacy in France. The reformers' new vision of the choice of a state of life was marked by four characteristics: urgency (the realization that one's soul was at stake), inclusiveness (the belief that everyone, including lay people, was called by God), method (the use of proven discernment practices), and liberty (the belief that this choice must be free from coercion, especially by parents). No mere passing phenomena, these vocational reforms engendered enduring beliefs and practices within the repertoire of global Catholic modernity, even to the present day. An illuminating and sometimes surprising history of pastoral reform, Callings and Consequences helps us to understand the history of Catholic vocational culture and its role in the modernizing process, within Christianity and beyond."-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Before the Rigorist Turn: The Catholic Reformation of Vocation in the Long Sixteen Century
• Urgency: Vocational Rigorism and the Dangers of Choosing Poorly
• Inclusiveness: Lay Vocation in a Rigorist Framework
• Method: Systematizing the Discernment Process
• Liberty: Parental Involvement without Parental Coercion.

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Other format(s)

Issued also in electronic format.

ISBN

• 0228008557
• 9780228008552 ((paperback))
• 0228008549
• 9780228008545 ((cloth))

OCLC

1241730927

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