Newton Theological Institution

Newton Theological Institution was a Baptist theological seminary founded on November 28, 1825, in Newton Centre, Massachusetts, United States.

The Institution was proposed in 1814, as a way to educate new Baptist preachers to serve in New England; this became the first Baptist seminary in the United States. Architect Alexander Rice Esty designed the seminary building, while local philanthropist Gardner Colby donated the funds for the main hall and a chapel on the site.

Newton adopted the graduate education model and three-year curriculum pioneered by Andover Theological Seminary, with which it shared a theological tradition of evangelistic zeal. Students from the two institutions were at the forefront of the modern missionary movement.

The first professors were Reverend Irah Chase and Henry Ripley.

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