A seminary college college, or divinity school is a special and oftentimes live-in advanced teaching establishment with the aim of instructing scholars in philosophy, theology, spiritualism and the religious living, ordinarily in order to prepare them to be members of the Church. Pupils in a seminary specially of the Roman Catholic Church are known as Seminarians.
The term “online masters degree” originates from Latin seminarium “seed bed”, the neuter form of seminarius “of or associated to seed”, applied as a noun. This name is appropriate since a seminary college is where the seeds of religious up-bringing are sown. The root of this word is semen “seed”, which comes from the identical early Proto-Indo-European root that give us the words sow and seed.
Other organized religions and cultures as well have divine schools similar to Western Theology seminaries. The Islamic and Jewish equivalents to a Christian seminary college are known as Madrasah and Yeshivah, respectively.