Christopher John Lane

Writer, Professor, Student of Christian Cultures

Writing


Essays

In the Classroom: St. John Henry Newman Seminar


Christopher Lane

Instaurare: The Magazine of Christendom College, vol. 33(3), 2025 Dec, p. 36


Limitless Wishing and its Discontents


Christopher J. Lane

Front Porch Republic, 2024 Apr 29


Counsels vs. Commands in Vocational Discernment


Christopher J. Lane

Homiletic & Pastoral Review, 2024 Mar 30


Reads of the year for living in modernity


Christopher J. Lane

Current, 2023 Dec 20


Augustine and the Bullfight


Dixie Dillon Lane, Christopher J. Lane

Current, 2023 Jul 26


In the Classroom: The History of Western Civilization III, 1291-1715


Christopher J. Lane

Instaurare: The Christendom College Magazine, vol. 26(3), 2019 Jan, p. 23


Persecution and the Perseverance of Japanese Christians


Christopher J. Lane

Instaurare: The Christendom College Magazine, vol. 25(2), 2017 Aug, p. 36


In the Classroom: History of Catholicism in Asia


Christopher J. Lane

Instaurare: The Christendom College Quarterly Magazine, vol. 24(2), 2016 Jul, p. 23


Vocational Discernment in Early Modern France


Christopher J. Lane

Instaurare: The Christendom College Quarterly Magazine, vol. 22(3), 2014 Oct, p. 21


St. Margaret Mary Alacoque and the Reception of the Sacred Heart


Christopher J. Lane

Crisis Magazine, 2014 Oct 16


St. Paul Miki and the Rise of Japan’s Hidden Christians


Christopher J. Lane

Crisis Magazine, 2014 Feb 6


Trusting in God with St. Francis de Sales


Christopher J. Lane

Crisis Magazine, 2013 Dec 30


Blessed Louis Brisson and the Nineteenth-century Salesian Pentecost


Christopher J. Lane

Crisis Magazine, 2013 Oct 10


The Holy Household of Louis and Zélie Martin


Christopher J. Lane

Crisis Magazine, 2013 Jul 11


The Hidden Holiness of Charles Gobinet


Christopher J. Lane

Crisis Magazine, 2012 Oct 15


Everything She Had: The Widow’s Mite of St. Jeanne de Chantal


Christopher J. Lane

Crisis Magazine, 2012 Aug 13

Interviews (written)

Callings, consequences, and vocational crises


Rachel Hoover Canto, Christopher J. Lane

Catholic World Report, 2023 Feb 2

Peer-reviewed book, articles, and book chapters

Vocational Culture in the Anglican Patrimony and the Ordinariates: Toward a Ressourcement


Christopher Lane

Lux Veritatis: A Journal of Speculative Theology, vol. 2(1), 2025, pp. 134–164


Rigorism and Clericalism in the Vocational Discernment Culture of the Nineteenth-Century Catholic Revival


Christopher J. Lane

The Catholic Historical Review, vol. 109(4), 2023, pp. 659⁠–⁠684


Newman and a Historian’s Craft


Christopher J. Lane

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


Callings and Consequences: The Making of Catholic Vocational Culture in Early Modern France


Christopher J. Lane

McGill-Queen’s University Press, Montreal & Kingston, 2021


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


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


Christopher J. Lane

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

Book reviews in academic journals

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


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


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


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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