The establishment of modern seminary institutions was a direct outcome of Roman Catholic reforms of the Counter-Reformation after the Council of Trent. This reform insisted on the enrichment of the training of clergy by way of creating seminaries as live-in institutions which would be below the primary watch of elderly clergy. The creation of secondary seminaries to train young boys for the priesthood accompanied this original movement. A seminary model called the Tridentine was that of a live in monastic community where lifestyle and supplication were closely supervised and Online theology degree adjusted as a way to reclaiming pre-Reformation ill-treatment among the clergy. The seminaries were very much in contrast to the more loose and unbound life styles of the universities. There followed a much greater stress was set on personalized discipline as well as the education of philosophy to train for theology. Protestant crusaders of the day declined this approach.
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February 11th, 2010 | Miscellaneous