Christ was not, Himself, a seminary graduate, nor did He establish an institution of higher learning.
He attended a seminary prep school in Missouri and by 1985 earned his doctorate.
Another common criticism is that enduring the financial privations of a seminary education is somehow a spiritual obligation.
Bishop Williamson returned to the UK last month after he was asked to leave Argentina, where he had been the head of a seminary.
Mr Gerson was on a faster track, studying theology at Wheaton College in Illinois (motto: For Christ and His Kingdom), and contemplating studying at a seminary.
When the war ended, young Ratzinger returned home to Bavaria and swiftly entered a Catholic seminary.
Gay rights activist Marcelo Marquez -- a self-described devout Catholic and former theology professor at a Catholic seminary -- said the then-archbishop of Buenos Aires had called him after he wrote an angry letter to Catholic leaders.
The government is talking of reopening a Greek Orthodox seminary on the island of Halki off Istanbul, a long-running demand of the European Union.
Among her many educational endeavors she is a trustee emerita of the Princeton Theological Seminary, a trustee of the Trinity Episcopal School in Charlotte, and the William Black Home for Religious workers.
Among Kovner's acquisitions was Beethoven's 80-page piano transcription of the "Grosse Fuge, " discovered recently at a suburban Philadelphia seminary.
When he visits the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, on Thursday, and a New York seminary on Saturday, he will detect some ideological currents that are far removed from his hold-the-line conservatism.
The 80-page draft score for the Grosse Fugue for Piano-Four Hands, considered a milestone in Beethoven's career, is being displayed briefly at the Palmer Theological Seminary, where a librarian came across it in July.
Then, suddenly, a conservative Democrat who spent six years in Catholic seminary before entering politics made a surprising floor speech.
After negotiations, they agreed to leave -- but only after Israeli officials agreed to let a group of Jewish seminary students stay on as security guards.
The Brodsky Organization built the 53-unit Chelsea Enclave on Ninth Avenue on the seminary grounds a few years ago, and has developed three townhouses that had been faculty housing.
He said the diocesan college he attended in the United States -- a type of minor seminary -- was designed to prepare students for their commitments at major seminaries if they decided to continue their studies.
Williamson was a novice at the London Oratory, studied at Lefebvre's seminary, and was ordained a priest in 1976.
What's in question is whether Moore (1779-1863), a professor of classics at the General Theological Seminary in New York City and member of a prominent family that once owned large tracts of what is now Greenwich Village, is the originator of the lighthearted verse.
Before Mark Paver, the Martyrs' player-coach, entered the seminary, he had a semiprofessional career in England's gritty lower leagues.
After working as a parish priest, professor and seminary leader, he served briefly as an auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of St.
In addition to rabbinic ordination, he has three masters degrees, in International Relations, Strategic Studies and National Security Affairs, and Rabbinics, and a doctorate from The Jewish Theological Seminary of America.
Father Stephen Wang, dean of studies at Allen Hall Seminary, says it is a sacrifice that many priests manage.
Edward Peters, a canon lawyer at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit, said Francis' statement seems to assume that the "sin" of abortion and the "crime" of abortion are treated equally under church law.
CNN: Pope: All priests can forgive those who've had abortions
Darrell Bock, a New Testament scholar at Dallas Theological Seminary, says some Pentecostals hold to their convictions in the face of opposition because they believe they are in tune with the will of God.
My previous article, The Seminary Bubble, certainly hit a nerve remarkably so, given that it appeared here at Forbes.com at the center of financial journalism and not one of the usual church discussion watering holes.
Yet with only a year's reserve left, the seminary grad remains undaunted in his leap of faith.
He has also demanded reform of a law under which ultra-Orthodox Jewish seminary students can defer their military service.
However, its leader, popular former TV presenter Yair Lapid, has demanded reform of a law under which ultra-Orthodox Jewish seminary students can defer their military service.
It also converted and sold a 38-unit apartment building that had been owned by the seminary on 20th Street, across from the square.
The new 60-room High Line Hotel, in the west Manhattan neighbourhood of Chelsea, is part of a mixed-use block that is part hotel, part Episcopal seminary and part residential building.
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