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The Crozer Theological Seminary was a Baptist seminary located in Upland, Pennsylvania, and founded in 1868. It was named after the wealthy industrialist, John Price Crozer. Martin Luther King Jr. was a student at Crozer Theological Seminary from 1948 to 1951, being elected student body president and graduating with a Bachelor of ...
Crozer Theological Seminary. October 2, 1868 to May 28, 1970. After completing his undergraduate work at Morehouse College in 1948, Martin Luther King attended Crozer Theological Seminary near Chester, Pennsylvania. King was drawn to the school’s unorthodox reputation and liberal theological leanings. It was at Crozer that King strengthened ...
Bexley Seabury Seminary is accredited by the Commission on Accrediting of The Association of Theological Schools (www.ats.edu) and is approved to offer the following degrees: the Master of Divinity (by virtue of its affiliation with the Chicago Theological Seminary) and the Doctor of Ministry.
In 1970, Crozer Theological Seminary merged with Colgate Rochester Divinity School to form Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School (CRCDS), bringing Crozer’s deep commitment to social justice and theological education oriented to the work of ministry.
The Crozer Theological Seminary is located in Chester, Pennsylvania. It opened in the fall of 1868 by Baptists. The Crozer Theological Seminary adopted a nondenominational approach to religious education, gaining reputation as a theologically liberal institution ("Crozer Theological Seminary").
During King’s second year at Crozer Theological Seminary, he took a two-term required course in systematic theology, Christian Theology for Today, with George W. Davis. 1 For the first assignment of the first term, Davis asked his students to use George Hedley’s The Symbol of the Faith, an examination of the Apostles’ Creed.
September 14, 1948 – King enters Crozer Theological Seminary. Spring 1950 – Hears Howard University president Mordecai Johnson lecture on Gandhi. May 8, 1951 – Receives bachelor of divinity degree from Crozer.
