Rigorism and Clericalism in the Vocational Discernment Culture of the Nineteenth-Century Catholic Revival
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 lea...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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The Catholic University of America Press
2023
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The catholic historical review
Year: 2023, Volume: 109, Issue: 4, Pages: 659-684 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Counter-Reformation
/ Clericalism
/ Rigorism
/ Vocation
/ Layman
/ Transnationaization
/ History 1600-1699
/ History 1800-1899
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KDB Roman Catholic Church RB Church office; congregation |
| Further subjects: | B
Transnational
B Rigorism B Catholic Revival B Laity B Clericalism B Vocation |
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| ISSN: | 1534-0708 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The catholic historical review
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