RT Article
T1 Rigorism and Clericalism in the Vocational Discernment Culture of the Nineteenth-Century Catholic Revival
JF The catholic historical review
VO 109
IS 4
SP 659
OP 684
A1 Lane, Christopher J.
LA English
PB The Catholic University of America Press
YR 2023
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1879612097
AB Seventeenth-century reformers had developed rigorist approaches to vocational discernment and the choice of a state of life (marriage, religion, or the priesthood) that endured in western Catholic religious culture. The author argues that, during the nineteenth-century Catholic revival, clerical leaders adapted this tradition in a manner that strengthened the culture of clericalism. While maintaining the principle that one's salvation depended on choosing the state of life to which one was called, they downplayed the concept of lay vocation, since the revival of Catholic institutions demanded that large numbers of youth voluntarily enter religious life and the priesthood. This strengthened the perception, in the pre-Vatican-II era, that vocation was not a concept relevant to the laity.
K1 Transnational
K1 Catholic Revival
K1 Laity
K1 Rigorism
K1 Clericalism
K1 Vocation