divinity school
noun
: a professional school having a religious curriculum especially for ministerial candidates
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Hoffman also notes that her divinity school education and study of belief aided her while writing about McPherson.
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Liz Ohanesian, Oc Register, 7 July 2025
Yale Divinity School is fortunate to have the third largest endowment of any divinity school in the country.
—Gregory E. Sterling, Hartford Courant, 20 June 2025
The play leaves the mundane world to engage in spiritual questions between an old-school father (Harry Lennix) and his independent-minded youngest son, Nazareth (Jon Michael Hill), who left divinity school to become a nature photographer.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2025
David was one of three Black students — his fellow law school classmate, the late Walter Johnson of Greensboro, N.C., and a graduate divinity school student, the late R.L. Speaks — to integrate the North Carolina university in 1961.
—Bea L. Hines, Miami Herald, 30 May 2025
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Liz Ohanesian, Oc Register, 7 July 2025
Yale Divinity School is fortunate to have the third largest endowment of any divinity school in the country.
—Gregory E. Sterling, Hartford Courant, 20 June 2025
The play leaves the mundane world to engage in spiritual questions between an old-school father (Harry Lennix) and his independent-minded youngest son, Nazareth (Jon Michael Hill), who left divinity school to become a nature photographer.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2025
David was one of three Black students — his fellow law school classmate, the late Walter Johnson of Greensboro, N.C., and a graduate divinity school student, the late R.L. Speaks — to integrate the North Carolina university in 1961.
—Bea L. Hines, Miami Herald, 30 May 2025
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