King first encountered Gandhian ideas during his studies at Crozer Theological Seminary. In a talk prepared for George Davis’s class, Christian Theology for Today, King included Gandhi among “individuals who greatly reveal the working of the Spirit of God” (Papers 1:249). In 1950, King heard Mordecai Johnson, president of Howard University, speak of his recent trip to India and Gandhi’s nonviolent resistance techniques. King situated Gandhi’s ideas of nonviolent direct action in the larger framework of Christianity, declaring that “Christ showed us the way and Gandhi in India showed it could work” (Rowland, “2,500 Here Hail Boycott Leader”). He later remarked that he considered Gandhi to be “the greatest Christian of the modern world” (King, 23 June 1962).