Different religions and cultures as well
Posted on April 8th, 2010 by admin
In some areas, the term Online Seminary is also applied for secular educational institutions of higher education that instruct teachers. While the function of the teaching Seminaries and religious seminaries is dissimilar, the language has not varied. Throughout the 19th century in the USA, Seminaries trained women for the only socially satisfactory occupation: education. Only single women could become teachers. Many early women’s colleges began as seminaries and created an crucial corps of teachers.
A seminary, theological college, or divinity school is a specialized and oftentimes live-in advanced teaching establishment for the purpose of instructing pupils in philosophy, divinity, spiritualism and the religious life, ordinarily in order to make them to be members of the clergy. Pupils in a seminary particularly of the Roman Catholic Church are known as Seminarists.
The term “theological college” comes from the Latin word seminarium “seed bed”, the neuter of seminarius “of or connected to seed”, applied as a noun. This term is proper since a seminary college is where the seeds of religious life are sown. The root of this word is semen “seed”, which originates from the same earlier Proto-Indo-European root that give us the words seed and sow.
Different religions and cultures as well have religious schools similar to Western Theology seminaries. The Islamic and Jewish equivalents to a Western theological college are called Madrasah and Yeshiva, respectively.