Harvard in 1636, and Yale in 1701, for example, started largely as seminaries.
You have just imagined the relationship between the Christian Church and her seminaries.
Benedict also announced an apostolic visitation of certain Irish dioceses, seminaries, and congregations.
My own denomination is in the midst of a massive schism, theologically fomented in one of our more conservative seminaries.
In the United States the Church has even resorted to advertising to try to fill the empty places in the seminaries.
Most are young students at the mosque's seminaries for males and females.
Liberal mainline seminaries appear to have turned into little gender police states whose denizens quietly tally your pronouns as you talk, calculating gender ratios.
And though nondenominational churches are growing, the Southern Baptist Convention the nation's largest Protestant group has over 10, 000 students studying for ministry in six seminaries right now.
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Islamist calls for the extermination of the Jewish people and the destruction of Israel dominate the mosques, seminaries, universities and media outlets in both countries.
The doubters include not only leading scholars in the seminaries of Qom, but some of Ayatollah Khomeini's closest associates, including prominent members of his own family.
Many secular Israelis object to the exemptions from army service given to students at religious seminaries or yeshivas and the large state subsidies that their institutions receive.
Mr al-Zawahiri's tract has been widely distributed in seminaries there.
Tim Winter, an influential British convert to Islam, believes that for all their narrow intensity, the British Deobandi seminaries won't foster violence: their ethos is cautious and traditional.
Within 150 km are scores of monasteries, seminaries and altars.
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It is commonly believed that they first appeared in religious seminaries - mostly paid for by money from Saudi Arabia - which preached a hard line from of Sunni Islam.
Pushing the clerics out of electoral politics and back into their secluded seminaries is advocated by progressive religious intellectuals as a way of ensuring the long-term health of the Islamic system.
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.
Contributing factors to the crisis can include inadequate procedures for determining suitable priesthood candidates, insufficient moral and spiritual formation in seminaries, and "misplaced concern for the reputation of the church and the avoidance of scandal, " the pope said.
By the time he graduated from college, though he went to Manhattan College, another Christian Brothers school Giuliani had been thoroughly exposed to the new views then sweeping through the seminaries and the theology departments of Catholic colleges and, eventually, the broader Church.
"I still have no answers as to why the proposed reforms to religious seminaries were not carried out by the Musharraf regime, or why some religious groups were promoted out of proportion to their political or spiritual clout, " says Najmuddin Shaikh, a former foreign secretary.
"They were obviously making changes from the middle of the century -- in the '30s, '40s and '50s - when the seminaries were packed full, but probably after the whole peace revolution and the sexual revolution guys obviously started having a lot of second thoughts, " he said.
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