The seminaries were very much in contrast
The formation of modern seminary institutions was a direct result of Roman Catholic reforms of the Counter-Reformation after the Council of Trent. This reform insisted on the enrichment of the education of clergy by means of making seminaries as live-in institutions which would be under the absolute hold of elderly clergy. The creation of minor seminaries to prepare young boys for the priesthood accompanied this basic movement. A seminary pattern named the Tridentine was that of a living in monastic community where lifestyle and entreaty were closely supervised and corrected as a means to rectifying pre-Reformation maltreatments among the clergy. The seminaries were very much in contrast to the more open and uncommitted life styles of the universities. There was a much greater stress was laid on personalized discipline as well as the learning of philosophy to groom for theology. Protestant reformers of the day declined this approach path.Other Christian denominations, including modern American Judaism, have since embraced and adapted the Tridentine pattern of the seminary degree. These seminaries are more active than the Tridentine and oftentimes do not contain the Catholic pressure on the imposed discipline of philosophy and the requirement to live on campus inside the Christian residential area of the seminary.