divinity school
noun
: a professional school having a religious curriculum especially for ministerial candidates
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In 1999, Naomi attended divinity school to become a minister.
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Jessica Booth, Peoplemag, 3 Mar. 2024
The fact that the murder took place at the University of Chicago’s divinity school underlines the mystery.
—Richard Babcock, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2023
My divinity school was more mainline than evangelical.
—Samuel Ernest, Longreads, 2 May 2023
After baseball came divinity school.
—Star Tribune, 5 Mar. 2021
Jennifer eventually attended divinity school at Harvard University, and then returned to New York to work for Make the Road New York, an immigrant advocacy group; her three younger siblings finished high school.
—Miriam Jordan, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2023
As trends take root, higher education institutions often adopt the seeds of change in divinity school efforts and other programs, signaling a substantive belief in a societal application.
—Rod Berger, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
Unlike Turgenev and Tolstoy and most other writers up to that time, Dobrolyubov and Chernyshevsky were not landed gentry; their fathers were priests, and both had graduated from divinity school.
—Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2022
Back then, Elling was based here, a Rockford native who started singing on the local circuit while in divinity school.
—Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 20 Aug. 2022
Jessica Booth, Peoplemag, 3 Mar. 2024
The fact that the murder took place at the University of Chicago’s divinity school underlines the mystery.
—Richard Babcock, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2023
My divinity school was more mainline than evangelical.
—Samuel Ernest, Longreads, 2 May 2023
After baseball came divinity school.
—Star Tribune, 5 Mar. 2021
Jennifer eventually attended divinity school at Harvard University, and then returned to New York to work for Make the Road New York, an immigrant advocacy group; her three younger siblings finished high school.
—Miriam Jordan, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2023
As trends take root, higher education institutions often adopt the seeds of change in divinity school efforts and other programs, signaling a substantive belief in a societal application.
—Rod Berger, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
Unlike Turgenev and Tolstoy and most other writers up to that time, Dobrolyubov and Chernyshevsky were not landed gentry; their fathers were priests, and both had graduated from divinity school.
—Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2022
Back then, Elling was based here, a Rockford native who started singing on the local circuit while in divinity school.
—Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 20 Aug. 2022
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“Divinity school.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/divinity%20school. Accessed 27 Apr. 2024.
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