KEVIN BAUDER serves as the Research Professor of Systematic Theology at Central Baptist Theological Seminary. He also serves as the pastor of Bible Baptist Church in East Bethel, MN. He was born in Midland, Michigan, and received his primary education in Michigan public schools and his secondary education in central Iowa. He holds a B.A. from Faith Baptist Bible College, an M.Div. and Th.M. from Denver Baptist Theological School, a D.Min. from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and a Ph.D. from Dallas Theological Seminary. He married Debra Wright, and has two children: Rachel and Joshua.

His non-academic interests include outdoorsmanship, gunsmithing, and the shooting sports, as well as a love for the fine arts.

Areas of academic pursuit include ecclesiological issues, Baptist history and polity, and the study of American fundamentalism and evangelicalism.