All 9 Uses of
seminary
in
Change of Heart, by Picoult
- Back when I was at seminary, I imagined I heard my grandfather's voice: I thought God was supposed to love you unconditionally Those sure sound like a lot of conditions to me.†
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- We all had, in seminary.†
- In seminary, we learned about the Gnostic gospels.†
- That's what we pretty much learn in seminary.†
- It was easy to see why, in seminary, this had been taught as heresy: the basis of Christianity was that there was only one God, and He was so different from man that the only way to reach Him was through Jesus.†
- Every priest knew that what we were taught in seminary had a Catholic spin put on it—yet there was an incontrovertible truth behind it.†
- At first, putting him on the stand seemed to be a sure way to lose a case—but the guy had a PhD from the Princeton Theological Seminary, and there had to be some merit in putting a former atheist on the stand.†
- You go to seminary for a certain number of years, and then you become a member of the transitional deaconate ....learning the ropes under the guidance of a more experienced parish priest.†
- It was only when I was at seminary that I learned the correct translation was to bind.†
Definition:
a school for training clerics -- usually ministers, priests, or rabbis