Central Seminary

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Cooperative Baptist Fellowship

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| city = Shawnee

| state = Kansas

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| former_name =Kansas City Baptist Theological Seminary

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Central Baptist Theological Seminary, also known as Central Seminary, is a seminary Shawnee, Kansas, affiliated with American Baptist Churches USA and the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship.{{cite web |title=Central Baptist Theological Seminary |url=https://www.ats.edu/member-schools/central-baptist-theological-seminary |publisher=Association of Theological Schools |access-date=3 November 2023}}

It was founded in 1901 as the Kansas City Baptist Theological Seminary. According to the Schaff–Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, it was founded "to meet the needs of Baptists of the Middle West for an institution devoted exclusively to ministerial education, none such then existing west of Chicago and Louisville."{{cite book |last1=Jillson |first1=E. T. |title=Schaff–Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge |page=345 |url=https://ccel.org/ccel/schaff/encyc11/Page_345.html |access-date=3 November 2023 |chapter=Theological Seminaries}} The name was changed to Central Baptist Theological Seminary in 1941. It moved from Kansas City to Shawnee in 2006.{{cite web |title=Central Seminary: A Brief History |url=https://www.cbts.edu/explore/history-and-affiliations/ |publisher=Central Seminary |access-date=3 November 2023}}

Central has been in partnership with Myanmar Institute of Theology since 2009 and with Calvin University in South Korea since 2020.

Molly Marshall was appointed president in 2005 and served until 2020.{{cite book |last1=Wills |first1=Gregory |title=Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1859–2009 |date=2009 |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=520 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BDujHZJd0y8C&pg=PA520 |access-date=3 November 2023}} The current president is Pamela Durso.{{cite news |title=Central Baptist Seminary president resigns due to ‘ethical lapse’ |url=https://www.baptiststandard.com/news/baptists/central-baptist-seminary-president-resigns-due-to-ethical-lapse/ |access-date=3 November 2023 |work=Baptist Standard |date=1 April 2020}}

As of 2022, Central has 287 students.