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Martin Luther King, Jr. Williams and Jeannie Celeste Williams. The elder King began referring to himself and later to his son as Martin Luther King. He resisted religious emotionalism and as a teenager questioned some facets of Baptist doctrine, such as the bodily resurrection of Jesus.

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Morehouse president Benjamin E. King admired both educators as deeply religious yet also learned men and, by the end of his junior year, such academic role models and the example of his father led King to enter the ministry. He was ordained during his final semester at Morehouse, and by this time King had also taken his first steps toward political activism.

After leaving Morehouse, King increased his understanding of liberal Christian thought while attending Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania from to Mentored by local minister and King family friend J. Pius Barbour , he reacted skeptically to a presentation on pacifism by Fellowship of Reconciliation leader A. Moreover, by the end of his seminary studies King had become increasingly dissatisfied with the abstract conceptions of God held by some modern theologians and identified himself instead with the theologians who affirmed personalism , or a belief in the personality of God.

Even as he continued to question and modify his own religious beliefs, he compiled an outstanding academic record and graduated at the top of his class. Harold DeWolf. The papers including his dissertation that King wrote during his years at Boston University displayed little originality, and some contained extensive plagiarism; but his readings enabled him to formulate an eclectic yet coherent theological perspective.

By the time he completed his doctoral studies in , King had refined his exceptional ability to draw upon a wide range of theological and philosophical texts to express his views with force and precision. His capacity to infuse his oratory with borrowed theological insights became evident in his expanding preaching activities in Boston-area churches and at Ebenezer, where he assisted his father during school vacations.