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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 .
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.
Not until 1948, when I entered Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania, did I begin a serious intellectual quest for a method to eliminate social evil. I turned to a serious study of the social and ethical theories of the great philosophers, from Plato and Aristotle down to Rousseau, Hobbes, Bentham, Mill, and Locke.
The Crozer Theological Seminary adopted a nondenominational approach to religious education, gaining reputation as a theologically liberal institution ("Crozer Theological Seminary"). It gained significance due to Martin Luther King attending and graduating as valedictorian of his class in 1951.
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.
Crozer Theological Seminary closed and merged with another Baptist Seminary in New York in the late 1960's. John P. Crozer had a very sensitive conscience about how to use his money. He gave liberally to his church, charitable institutions and causes in the area.
The Crozer Seminary Years. As an undergraduate at Morehouse College, Martin Luther King Jr. was never a strong student. He preferred to party and use his college years to hone his oratorical skills. But when he arrived at Crozer Theological Seminary, King quickly got down to work.
