Martin Luther King
King was originally skeptical of many ofChristianity's claims.[10] Most striking, perhaps, was his initial denial of the bodily resurrection of Jesus during Sunday school at the age of thirteen. From this point, he stated, "doubts began tospring forth unrelentingly".[11] However, he later concluded that the Bible has "many profound truths which one cannot escape" and decided to enter the seminary.[10]
Growing up in Atlanta, King attendedBooker T. Washington High School. A precocious student, he skipped both the ninth and the twelfth grade and entered Morehouse College at age fifteen without formally graduating from high school.[12]In 1948, he graduated from Morehouse with a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology, and enrolled in Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania, from which he graduated with a Bachelor ofDivinity degree in 1951.[13][14] King married Coretta Scott, on June 18, 1953, on the lawn of her parents' house in her hometown of Heiberger, Alabama.[15] They became the parents of four children; YolandaKing, Martin Luther King III, Dexter Scott King, and Bernice King.[16]
King became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, when he was twenty-five years old, in 1954.[17]King then began doctoral studies in systematic theology at Boston University and received his Doctor of Philosophy on June 5, 1955, with a dissertation on "A Comparison of the Conceptions of God in...
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