Seminaries nowadays offer a broad variety of plans
May 122010
Seminary nowadays offer a broad variety of plans and formats for scholars who are not intending to get into full-time Christian ministry. theological college education has become democratized. There are online programs, weekend classes, and cohort-based grades. There are recent programmes planned for scholars who will not get into traditional professions like the pastorship upon graduation. And there are satellite colleges and other untraditional settings that permit pupils to go to seminary college without having to move or to change their life-style.
The establishment of contemporary seminary college foundations was a straight result of Roman Catholic reforms of the Counter-Reformation after the Council of Trent which asserted on the improvement of the teaching of clergy by the foundation of Theology seminaries as live-in institutions under the primary control of elder clergy. Since at least the 4th century there have been Seminaries for the training of clergy.