Sentences with phrase «seminary graduates needed»

«What we discovered was that the local church had a culture of its own and that seminary graduates needed to be prepared to cope with the congregation as a very complex social reality with deep structures and metaphors by which it lives and moves, a social reality which is affected by forces and dynamics of which we know almost nothing.»

The massive quantity of information the seminary graduate needs to know, the time - demands placed upon him or her, the scholarly requirements, the need for «formation» (more than simply «learning things.»)

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For Protestants, though, seminary need not be about ministry; at some of the more - established old line institutions in the U.S., for example, only a minority of students actually enter active ministry after graduating.

To send a minister forth from seminary without his having confronted himself and human need at a deep level is to graduate him without the very insights which can allow him to make his message relevant to live human beings.