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This book explores efforts in early modern Catholicism to encourage young men and women to discern the "state of life" to which they were called, whether clerical, religious, or lay. Lane analyzes the origins, growth, and influence of a culture of vocation that became central to the Catholic Reformation as it unfolded in seventeenth-century France.

Reformation --- Catholic Church --- Clergy --- Appointment, call, and election. --- France --- Church history. --- Catholicism. --- Charles Taylor. --- Christianity. --- Counter-Reformation. --- European. --- Francis de Sales. --- French. --- Ignatian. --- Ignatius Loyola. --- Jansenist. --- Old Regime. --- Reformation. --- ancien regime. --- authority. --- clergy. --- clerical. --- coercion. --- confessionalization. --- devotion. --- devout. --- discernment. --- education. --- etat de vie. --- freedom. --- grace. --- inclusive. --- laity. --- layman. --- liberty. --- marriage. --- method. --- modernity. --- monastic. --- moralism. --- pastoral. --- patriarchal. --- piety. --- priesthood. --- rationalization. --- religious. --- rigorist. --- salvation. --- state life. --- systematization. --- vows. --- youth.