divinity
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8.2
- noun
- /dɪˈvɪnɪti/
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teología
- Until recently, he led the Sinai Temple in Los Angeles and has also taught at UCLA, Harvard Divinity School, and more.
- a divinity school
- divinity and theology
What compels you to go to divinity school and become a pastor?
- What compels you to go to divinity school and become a pastor?
- And I can see why because there are schools for divinity where religion is is taught.
- If so, the D school starts sounding more like a divinity school.
- Until recently, he led the Sinai Temple in Los Angeles and has also taught at UCLA, Harvard Divinity School, and more.
- And New Testament theologians, divinity degrees, they don't have access to that ground based material.
- I mean, when I was in divinity school at Yale, I, I was frustrated with the, I mean, I had a beautiful experience there, but I didn't want it to be abstract.
Examples
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My first academic job as the only woman on a divinity faculty obliged me to become a feminist myself.
Academic text (1998) -
The influence of his sometime colleague at the Divinity School, Schubert Ogden, may be part of the explanation.
Academic text (1993) -
I first came here as a student in the Divinity School.
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I quit the Ed program and applied to the Divinity School.
Fiction book (2002) -
I considered continuing my divinity studies there after the war.
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And one day I was giving a lecture to the students at Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge.
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Before attending the Divinity School at the University of Chicago, I knew little of the non-Catholic world.
Academic text (1998) -
I got my Masters in Divinity... ...then left the seminary to do secular humanitarian work... ...coordinating Third World churches.
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Newton had come to Greenfield in 1760 after graduating from Yale Divinity School in 1758.
Academic text (1993) -
During my studies at divinity school, I learned about various religious philosophies and their impacts on society.
Synonyms
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7.8
Study of God and religious beliefs, and how religion affects people
Compounds
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7.9
An advanced degree in religion for people training to be priests or ministers
- Specialized
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8.6
A high university degree in religious study given to senior scholars
A light white fluffy candy made from whipped egg whites and sugar with nuts or vanilla
A first university degree in religious study for people training as Christian ministers
How Academic
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Morphology
Etymology
Divinity as the study of religion comes from Latin divinus 'of a god', so the word refers to learning about gods, religion, and religious ideas, which is why a 'divinity' course is about religion.