The Crozer Theological Seminary is a former multi-denominational religious institution located in both Chester, Pennsylvania and nearby Upland. The school, which occupied a the former Crozer Hospital (now the Crozer-Chester Medical Center), mostly served as a Methodist Episcopal (now United Methodist Church) school, training seminiarians for the entry into the Methodist ministry. The most famous of all of the students who attended Crozer Seminary was the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the most famous of all Civil Rights Leaders. He attended the school in the late 1950's as a Baptist seminarian. The school closed in 1968 and the building is now a medical office on the grounds of the Crozer-Chester Medical Center. Chester is a city in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, population 36,854 at the 2000 census. ... Martin Luther King, Jr. ...
King was drawn to the school’s unorthodox reputation and liberal theological leanings, and it was at Crozer where King was first exposed to pacifism and where he developed his ideas about nonviolence as a method of social reform.
He said of his earlier experiences at the seminary, "If I were a minute late to class, I was almost morbidly conscious of it and sure that everyone noticed it.
While at Crozer, King was first introduced to pacifism in a lecture by A. Muste of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, a religious pacifist organization.
Bernard's College and Seminary were reincorporated, enabling the schools to "confer literary, scientific, and professional degrees, and in testimony thereof to award certificates and diplomas." In 1935, Bachelor of Arts degrees were awarded to students completing the four-year college course with a major in philosophy and minor in classical languages.
Reform of theological studies under Pope Pius XI revoked the power to grant papal degrees from all ecclesiastical academic institutions that did not have a separate degree-granting faculty.
CrozerTheologicalSeminary joined the Rochester Center in the Fall of 1970 in its move to the Colgate Rochester Divinity School/Bexley Hall campus.
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