Central Baptist Theological Seminary of Minneapolis

Last updated
Central Baptist Theological Seminary of Minneapolis
Type Fundamentalist Christian Seminary
EstablishedSeptember 11, 1956
President Dr. Matt Morrell
Address
900 Forestview Ln N Plymouth MN 55441
,
Plymouth
,
Minnesota
,
United States

44°59′18″N93°25′36″W / 44.98833°N 93.42667°W / 44.98833; -93.42667
Affiliations Independent Baptist [1]
Website http://www.centralseminary.edu
CBTS-logo.png

Central Baptist Theological Seminary of Minneapolis is an Independent Baptist seminary in Plymouth, Minnesota. The seminary moved from Minneapolis to its present location in 1996.

Contents

Accreditation

Central Baptist Theological Seminary of Minneapolis is accredited by the Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools. [2] It is also accredited by the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada. [1]

History

Central Baptist Theological Seminary of Minneapolis officially held its first class on September 11, 1956, with a group of thirty-one students from ten states and a faculty of seven. [3] Richard V. Clearwaters, pastor of the Fourth Baptist Church of Minneapolis where the seminary was housed, was the first president. [3]

Presidents

Douglas R. McLachlan succeeded Clearwaters as pastor of Fourth Baptist Church in 1982 and became the second president of the seminary during the 1986-87 academic year. [3] In 1988, McLachlan was succeeded by Ernest Pickering as president of Central Baptist Theological Seminary and pastor of Fourth Baptist Church. [4] In 1983, after Pickering left for another position, McLachlan returned to become Fourth Baptist Church's pastor and the seminary's president. [3]

In May 2003, Kevin T. Bauder became full-time president of Central Baptist Theological Seminary. [5] Samuel E. Horn succeeded Bauder on July 1, 2011. [6] Horn left in October 2014 for a position elsewhere. [7] In 2014, Matt Morrell, pastor of Fourth Baptist Church, was named the seminary's president taking office in January 2015. [8]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gordon–Conwell Theological Seminary</span> Theological seminary in Massachusetts

Gordon–Conwell Theological Seminary (GCTS) is an evangelical seminary with its main campus in Hamilton, Massachusetts, and three other campuses in Boston, Massachusetts; Charlotte, North Carolina; and Jacksonville, Florida. According to the Association of Theological Schools, Gordon-Conwell ranks as one of the largest evangelical seminaries in North America in terms of total number of full-time students enrolled.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dallas Theological Seminary</span> Theological seminary in Dallas, Texas

Dallas Theological Seminary(DTS) is an evangelical theological seminary in Dallas, Texas. It is known for popularizing the theological system of dispensationalism. DTS has campuses in Dallas, Houston, and Washington, D.C., as well as extension campuses in Atlanta, Austin, San Antonio, Nashville, Northwest Arkansas, Europe, Guatemala, and Australasia and a multilingual online education program.

Dana College was a private college in Blair, Nebraska. Its rural 150-acre campus is approximately 26 miles (40 km) northwest of Omaha and overlooks a portion of the Missouri River Valley. The campus was planned to be purchased by Midland University, which expressed its intention to re-open the campus in 2015 or 2016, but dropped plans in early 2016.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Free Lutheran Bible College and Seminary</span>

Free Lutheran Bible College and Seminary (FLBCS) is one institution of higher education consisting of two programs, the two-year undergraduate Free Lutheran Bible College (FLBC) and the four-year pastoral training program Free Lutheran Seminary (FLS). FLBCS is accredited through the Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools (TRACS), a member of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA), and an associate member of the Association for Biblical Higher Education (ABHE). FLBCS is located in Plymouth, Minnesota, near the national offices of the Association of Free Lutheran Congregations (AFLC).

New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary (NOBTS) is a Baptist theological institute in New Orleans, Louisiana. It is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention. Missions and evangelism are core focuses of the seminary.

Faith Baptist Bible College and Theological Seminary is a private Christian college and seminary in Ankeny, Iowa.

American Accrediting Association of Theological Institutions (AAATI) is a Christian nonprofit organization based in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. It was founded by Cecil Johnson, president of Christian Bible College, a distance education Bible college based in Rocky Mount North Carolina.

A Bible college, sometimes referred to as a Bible institute or theological institute or theological seminary, is an evangelical Christian or Restoration Movement Christian institution of higher education which prepares students for Christian ministry with theological education, Biblical studies and practical ministry training.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Clearwater Christian College</span> College in Florida, US

Clearwater Christian College (CCC) was a non-denominational Christian college in Clearwater, Florida on Tampa Bay from 1966 until 2015.

Temple Baptist Seminary is the graduate school of Christian theology of Piedmont International University. Originally established as "Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary" in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1948, the name was changed to Temple Baptist Theological Seminary five years later, after the Southern Baptist Convention founded its own Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. The seminary became a part of Piedmont when its parent school, Tennessee Temple University, merged with it in 2015.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Southern Baptist Theological Seminary</span> Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, USA

The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (SBTS) is a Baptist theological institute in Louisville, Kentucky. It is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention. The seminary was founded in 1859 in Greenville, South Carolina, where it was at first housed on the campus of Furman University. The seminary has been an innovator in theological education, establishing one of the first Ph.D. programs in religion in the year 1892. After being closed during the Civil War, it moved in 1877 to a newly built campus in downtown Louisville and moved to its current location in 1926 in the Crescent Hill neighborhood. In 1953, Southern became one of the few seminaries to offer a full, accredited degree course in church music. For more than fifty years Southern has been one of the world's largest theological seminaries, with an FTE enrollment of over 3,300 students in 2015.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Luther Rice College & Seminary</span>

Luther Rice College & Seminary is a private Baptist college and seminary in Lithonia, Georgia. Through the college and seminary the institution offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in leadership, counseling, apologetics, Christian worldview, Christian studies, and Christian ministry. The school is recognized as being theologically conservative.

Ernest Dinwoodie Pickering was a fundamentalist Christian pastor, author, college administrator, and mission board representative.

Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary is an independent Baptist seminary in Allen Park, Michigan, operated in association with the Inter-City Baptist Church in Allen Park. The institution, which was established in 1976, enrolls men for graduate programs in preaching and pastoral theology, leading to the Master of Divinity (M.Div) and Master of Theology (Th.M.) degrees.

Otis Moss III is the pastor of Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ. He espouses black theology and speaks about reaching inner-city black youth.

George W. Dollar (1917–2006) was a prominent preacher, teacher and author in Independent Fundamental Baptist circles. He is most famous as of co-founder of the Southwide Baptist Fellowship, author of 3 books including A History of Fundamentalism in America and a militant defender of his faith.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kevin T. Bauder</span>

Kevin T. Bauder is a Baptist theologian. From 2003–2011 Bauder was president of Central Baptist Theological Seminary of Minneapolis. Since 2011, he has been Research Professor of Systematic Theology at the seminary.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">John Witherspoon College</span>

John Witherspoon College is a non-denominational Christian liberal arts college in Rapid City, South Dakota. The college was founded in 2012 and named after the pastor, scholar and American Founding Father John Witherspoon. The college was created to serve both a local need for Christian higher education in the Black Hills and the broader interest for classic liberal-arts education in America.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Central Philippine University – College of Theology</span> Theological seminary at Central Philippine University

The Central Philippine University College of Theology, also referred to as CPU COT, CPU College of Theology, or CPU Theology, is the theological seminary and one of the academic units of Central Philippine University, a private research university in Iloilo City, Philippines. It was founded in 1905 as the Bible School for the training of Christian men, workers, and missionaries, through a grant from the American industrialist and Northern Baptist, John D. Rockefeller. The College of Theology is the oldest college and academic unit of Central Philippine University and the first and oldest Baptist theological seminary in the Philippines.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary</span> Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary

The Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary (CBTS) is a reformed baptist seminary in Owensboro, Kentucky, on the premises of Grace Reformed Baptist Church and led by President Sam Waldron. CBTS trains people who hold to the 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith to lead churches, domestically and internationally.

References

  1. 1 2 "ATS Member Schools: Central Baptist Theological Seminary of Minneapolis". Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada. Retrieved 2017-09-02.
  2. ↑ "TRACS Members". Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools. Archived from the original on 2015-06-07. Retrieved 2017-09-02.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Central Baptist Theological Seminary: History". Central Baptist Theological Seminary of Minneapolis. Archived from the original on 2017-09-24. Retrieved 2017-09-06.
  4. ↑ "Memorial: Ernest Dinwoodie Pickering". Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society. 2001. Retrieved 2011-06-28.
  5. ↑ "Central Seminary Celebrates First Presidential Inauguration" (PDF). Central Baptist Theological Seminary of Minneapolis. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-08-07. Retrieved 2011-06-28.
  6. ↑ "Central Seminary Appoints New President". Central Baptist Theological Seminary of Minneapolis. Archived from the original on 2011-08-07. Retrieved 2011-06-28.
  7. ↑ "Dr. Sam Horn Hired by Bob Jones University". Central Baptist Theological Seminary of Minneapolis. Archived from the original on 2014-10-06. Retrieved 2015-01-07.
  8. ↑ "Central Seminary Announces President". Central Baptist Theological Seminary of Minneapolis. Archived from the original on 2015-01-30. Retrieved 2015-01-07.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.