Vocational Freedom, Parental Authority and Pastoral Persuasion in Seventeenth-Century France
In seventeenth-century France, secular law favoured parents' authority in children's choices of marriage, religion or the clerical state, despite Catholic theology and canon law favouring individual freedom. Negotiating this tension led many clerical writers - in advice on choosing a state...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2018]
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The journal of ecclesiastical history
Year: 2018, Volume: 69, Issue: 4, Pages: 768-784 |
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France
/ Church law
/ Family law
/ Personal status
/ History 1600-1700
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KBG France SA Church law; state-church law |
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| Summary: | In seventeenth-century France, secular law favoured parents' authority in children's choices of marriage, religion or the clerical state, despite Catholic theology and canon law favouring individual freedom. Negotiating this tension led many clerical writers - in advice on choosing a state of life found in devotional treatises, sermons and catechisms - to reconcile parental involvement with vocational liberty. Believing that the right choice of a state was virtually necessary for salvation, they urged parents and children to cooperate in discerning and accepting God's call. Amid conflicts with French law and culture, pastoral persuasion helped to forge an enduringly influential strain in modern Catholicism. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-7637 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of ecclesiastical history
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0022046917002743 |