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==Origin==
[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], seedbed, [[nursery]], from [[Latin]] ''seminarium'', from ''semin''-, [[semen]] [[seed]]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_century 1542]
==Definitions==
*1: an environment in which something [[origin]]ates and from which it is propagated
*2a : an [[institution]] of secondary or higher [[education]]
:b : an institution for the [[training]] of candidates for the [[priesthood]], ministry, or rabbinate
==Description==
A '''seminary''', [[theological]] [[college]], or [[divinity]] school is an [[institution]] of secondary or post-secondary education for educating students (sometimes called seminarians) in theology, generally to [[prepare]] them for [[ordination]] as clergy or for other ministry. The [[English]] word is taken from the Latin ''seminarium'', translated as [[seed]]-bed, an image taken from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Trent Council of Trent] document ''Cum adolescentium aetas'' which called for the first modern seminaries. In the West the term now refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church Roman Catholic] educational institutes and has widened to include other [[Christian]] denominations and American Jewish institutions.
The establishment of [[modern]] seminaries resulted from Roman Catholic reforms of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-Reformation Counter-Reformation] after the Council of Trent. The Tridentine seminaries placed great emphasis on personal [[discipline]] as well as the teaching of [[philosophy]] as a [[preparation]] for theology.
[[Category: Education]]
==Origin==
[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], seedbed, [[nursery]], from [[Latin]] ''seminarium'', from ''semin''-, [[semen]] [[seed]]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_century 1542]
==Definitions==
*1: an environment in which something [[origin]]ates and from which it is propagated
*2a : an [[institution]] of secondary or higher [[education]]
:b : an institution for the [[training]] of candidates for the [[priesthood]], ministry, or rabbinate
==Description==
A '''seminary''', [[theological]] [[college]], or [[divinity]] school is an [[institution]] of secondary or post-secondary education for educating students (sometimes called seminarians) in theology, generally to [[prepare]] them for [[ordination]] as clergy or for other ministry. The [[English]] word is taken from the Latin ''seminarium'', translated as [[seed]]-bed, an image taken from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Trent Council of Trent] document ''Cum adolescentium aetas'' which called for the first modern seminaries. In the West the term now refers to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church Roman Catholic] educational institutes and has widened to include other [[Christian]] denominations and American Jewish institutions.
The establishment of [[modern]] seminaries resulted from Roman Catholic reforms of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-Reformation Counter-Reformation] after the Council of Trent. The Tridentine seminaries placed great emphasis on personal [[discipline]] as well as the teaching of [[philosophy]] as a [[preparation]] for theology.
[[Category: Education]]
