The Absurdity of Seminary 'Spiritual Formation' Classes

It seems that I'm hearing more and more about "spiritual formation" classes in seminaries and divinity schools these days. The question begging to be asked is, "How can spiritual formation not be coming out of the Biblical exegesis, systematic theology, pastoral ministry, and church history courses?" Have we so divorced those subjects from worship and devotion that they are simply lifeless academic exercises, and so we must add in spiritual formation later? What are we teaching people about God at these divinity schools?

I'm not saying that many of these schools don't NEED spiritual formation classes, I'm bemoaning the fact that their Christian theology classes are so Godless that they need to supplement the study of God with mystical techniques from other traditions so that students can get a spiritual "fix." How can our study of God's word be so dead that we need to turn to other religions to be spiritual?

John Piper touched on this topic in a paper written quite a wile ago. He quoted J. Gresham Machen, who recounted his study the German theologian Wilhelm Hermann with these words:

My chief feeling with reference to him is already one of the deepest reverence. . . . I have been thrown all into confusion by what he says - so much deeper is his devotion to Christ than anything I have known in myself during the past few years. . . . He believes that Jesus is the one thing in all the world that inspires absolute confidence, and an absolute, joyful subjection; that through Jesus we come into communion with the living God and are made free from the world. . . . His trust in Christ is (practically, if anything, even more truly than theoretically) unbounded.

For Machen, studying the word in the Greek Bible produced Spirit-filled spiritual formation.

It's like when people distinguish "worship" at church from the preaching... i.e. "I like it when the church does most of the worship after the preaching." Why doesn't our preaching take people so deeply into the heart of God that people worship during it?