In February 1867, a school for the training of ministers and other church leaders was organized in the Springfield Baptist Church of Augusta, Georgia, under the sponsorship of the American Baptist Home Mission Society. This school was known as the Augusta Institute until its move to Atlanta in 1879, whereupon it was renamed Atlanta Baptist Seminary. Twenty years later, the Seminary was authorized to offer college work and the name was changed to Atlanta Baptist College. Theological students continued to outnumber liberal arts students until 1923-24. In 1904, attention turned to the Divinity School which, though related to the College, had its own instructors and offered the B. D. degree in addition to the B.Th. and the Diploma in Theology.

The name Morehouse was adopted in 1913 in honor of Dr. Henry L. Morehouse, Corresponding Secretary of the American Baptist Home Mission Society and, in 1924, the Divinity School of Morehouse College became known as the School of Religion. This change was accompanied by a reorganization of curriculum, and Dr. Charles D. Hubert, who had been a professor in the Divinity School since 1914, became the first director of the School of Religion of Morehouse College.

Through the mutual agreement of Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, then president of both Morehouse College and Morehouse School of Religion, and Dr. Harry V. Richardson, then president of The ITC, and with the concurrence of Morehouse College trustees, Morehouse School of Religion became the Baptist constituent member of the consortium known as the Interdenominational Theological Center.

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