In narratives reflecting three years immersion in the culture of two Protestant seminaries -- one evangelical, the other mainline -- the authors explore the role of culture in educating and forming students. In doing so, they not only illuminate the structure and process by which culture educates and forms, but also provide insight into important dynamics of American religious life. "[This] superb study...will serve as a model for other studies of theological education in America and, conceivably, for other types of higher education as well....We have here what could easily become a paradigmatic scholarly approach to the synchronic interpretation of institutions of higher education."--Conrad Cherry, Indiana University