commonly in order to prepare them to be followers

A Online Seminary college, or divinity college is a special and often live-in higher teaching establishment for the intention of instructing pupils in philosophy, divinity, spiritualism and the religious life, commonly in order to prepare them to be followers of the Church. Scholars in a seminary particularly of the Roman Catholic Church are called Seminarians.

The word “seminary college” comes from Latin seminarium “seed bed”, the neuter form of seminarius “of or linked to seed”, applied as a noun. This name is correct since a seminary is where the seeds of spiritual up-bringing are planted. The origin of this word is semen “seed”, which originates from the same primaeval Proto-Indo-European source that give us English sow and seed.

Different organized religions and cultures likewise have religious schools analogous to Christian Seminaries. The Islamic and Jewish equivalents to a Western seminary are known as Madrasa and Yeshivah, respectively.

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