Seminary
A seminary is in the Protestant regional churches a training center for theologians (candidates) in postgraduate training phase for the pastor or the pastor (see theology , evangelical vicarage ). The oldest German seminary of this kind is the Wittenberg seminary . In the Protestant Free Churches , the term seminary originally referred to the training facility for pastors . The free church seminary became the theological seminary as a rule . A number of these seminars have now received recognition as a university and therefore use this term in their name.
List of the regional church seminaries
- Braunschweig seminary
- Study seminar / Morata House Heidelberg
- Herborn Theological Seminar
- Mission seminar Hermannsburg
- Evangelical study seminar Hofgeismar
- Landau seminary in the Palatinate
- Loccum seminary
- Preachers' seminar Ludwigslust
- Preachers' seminar in Nuremberg
- Preacher and study seminar in North Elbe Ratzeburg
- Parish seminar Haus Birkach Stuttgart
- Preachers' seminary in Wittenberg
- Seminar for pastoral training Wuppertal (formerly Reformed Preachers ' Seminar Elberfeld and Preachers' Seminar Villigst )
List of free church seminaries
The oldest Free Church schools, originally the name seminary contributed include the Methodist Theological School Reutlingen and the Baptist Theological College in Wustermark-Elstal .
Further training centers are available:
- the Mennonite training and conference center Bienenberg in Liestal in Switzerland
- the Ewersbach Theological College of the Federation of Free Protestant Congregations in Dietzhölztal -Ewersbach
- the Friedensau Theological College of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Möckern - Friedensau
List of former regional church seminaries
literature
- Heinrich Holze: Between studies and parish office. The emergence of the seminary in the Guelph principalities at the time of the Enlightenment. Göttingen 1985 (also Diss., Univ. Göttingen, 1984).
- Birgit Weyel: Practical training for the pastor's profession. The Wittenberg seminary and the emergence of a second training phase for Protestant pastors in Prussia (contributions to historical theology 134). Tübingen 2006 (also Habil. Writing, Humboldt-Univ. Berlin, 2004).