I serve as Professor of History at Christendom College in Front Royal, Va., where I teach a variety of courses in the history of Western Civilization from its foundations in Ancient Near Eastern antiquity through its global present. My work focuses on past and present Christian cultures, with particular attention to the challenges and opportunities embedded in modernity. My current research and writing explores relationships between Anglicanism and Catholicism, especially in light of the contributions of the Oxford Movement and the cultural shifts it engendered. Much of my earlier work, including my book Callings and Consequences, has examined historical cultures of vocation, analyzing young people's choices of states of life in the context of law, the family, social order, and broader movements of Christian reform.

Highlights

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Book

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

Christopher J. Lane

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

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Peer-reviewed articles and book chapters

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

Christopher J. Lane

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

Open Access (free download)

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

DOI

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

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