Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

schools, cathedral Institutions under the management of a head schoolmaster, and open to lay pupils as well as those destined for the Church, developed in the 8th century from the episcopal schools founded a century or two earlier, by bishops who conducted them chiefly for clerics and were themselves the teachers. Chrodegang, Bishop of Metz … Continue reading “schools, cathedral”

schools, Carlovingian A system of educational reform was inaugurated by Charlemagne under the advice of Alcuin who became his “prime minister of education.” In 782 Alcuin was placed at the head of the court school of military tactics and good manners, established under the Merovingian kings, and taught there grammar, arithmetic, astronomy , and music. … Continue reading “schools, Carlovingian”

schools, Apostolic Name given to institutions, founded as preparatory schools for boys or young men of insufficient means, who desire to enter a missionary order, or to join the secular clergy with the intention of laboring in a mission field. The first of these schools was established by Father Alberic de Foresta, S.J., in 1865, … Continue reading “Schools, Apostolic”

Schools, Alexandrian SEE ALEXANDRIAN SCHOOLS. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Schools I. The Christian Church By virtue of her Divine charter, “Going, teach ye all nations”, is essentially a teaching organization. Teaching is included in her task of saving souls. Primarily she was instituted to dispense the means of salvation, and to teach the truths which are necessary to salvation. These truths are spiritual and … Continue reading “Schools”

SCHOOLMEN A sect of men, in the twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth centuries, who framed a new sort of divinity, called Scholastic Theology. ( See last article.) Their divinity was founded upon, and confirmed by, the philosophy of Aristotle, and lay, says Dr. Gill, in contentions and litigious disputations, in thorny questions and subtle distinctions. Their … Continue reading “Schoolmen”

SCHOOLMASTER 1Co 4:15 Gal 3:24,25, in Greek Paidagogos; a sort of attendant who took the charge of young children, taught them the rudiments of knowledge, and at a suitable age conducted them to and from school. Thus the law was the pedagogue of the nation, and a length conducting them through its types and prophecies … Continue reading “Schoolmaster”

School, Sunday SEE SUNDAY SCHOOL. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

School Sisters of Notre Dame A branch of the Congregation of Notre Dame founded in France by Saint Peter Fourier in 1597 for the education of youth. In 1847 six sisters emigrated to the United States at the request of Bishop O’Connor of Pittsburgh and the first convent was established in Baltimore. The congregation is … Continue reading “School Sisters of Notre Dame”

School, Schoolmaster SCHOOL, SCHOOLMASTER.School occurs in EV [Note: English Version.] only in Act 19:9 for the lecture-room of an Ephesian rhetorician (cf. Education, p. 204a); schoolmaster only in Gal 3:24-25 AV [Note: Authorized Version.] , for which RV [Note: Revised Version.] has tutor. The original is paidaggos, lit. child-conductor, pedagoguean old and trusty slave, who … Continue reading “School, Schoolmaster”