High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A seminary, theological college, or divinity school is an institution of higher education for educating students (seminarians) in philosophy, theology, spirituality and the religious life, primarily at the postgraduate level, to prepare students for ordination as clergy or for other ministry. The English word is taken from the Latin seminarium, translated as seed-bed, the image from the Council of Trent document Cum Adulescentium Aetas which called for the first modern seminaries. As such, in the West the term historically referred to Christian educational institutes, but has widened to include American Jewish institutions.