News Articles by Paige Patterson

EDITOR’S NOTE: The following reflection by Paige Patterson, president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, was written after the death May 23 of Wayne Ward, 90, professor of Christian theology at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary from 1951-91 and a cousin of Patterson’s wife Dorothy. Patterson was in Europe when he wrote this reflection. FORT WORTH, Texas […]

Seminary president Paige Patterson shares his thoughts on the joy of pets upon the passing of his dog.

FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)–In the well-publicized internal discussion among evangelical Christians concerning Calvinism, the fact that the biblical teaching of man’s hopeless depravity, however defined, is the doctrine that the world vociferously rejects is often overlooked. However defined, depravity, in its self-sufficient arrogance, pictures man as fallen, rebellious toward God, and helpless in his ability […]

FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)--There are a good many things about which most of us maintain a healthy skepticism.

FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)--References to wine are frequent in both the Old and New Testaments. The Masoretic text of the Old Testament employs the Hebrew word "yayin" in the vast majority of cases -- 141 times to be exact. A handful of other words are translated “wine” but not with enough frequency to matter. The Greek term "oinos" is used predominantly in the New Testament, and coming through Latin is transliterated into English as “wine.” The Greek term "gleukos" (literally, “sweet wine”) is sometimes used.

FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)--Four thousand years ago in the extreme south of today’s war-torn land of Iraq, the ancient city of Ur boasted among its inhabitants a man named Abram. In Genesis 12:1, God told Abram to leave his country and go to a land that He would show him.

FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)--In a previous column, I ventured to share my 10 iconoclastic rules of church planting, expecting that as a result I might not survive another day.

FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)--Both friends and detractors have sometimes alleged that I am a bit of an iconoclast. I plead perfectly guilty to the charge and add that my own observation of “conventional wisdom” on almost any subject is that it often suffers from little cogent thinking. The area of church planting is no different.

FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)--Over the past few weeks, I have consistently urged every student, staff and faculty member at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary not only to register to vote, but also to cast that vote.

FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)--Government, according to the Scripture, is a divinely ordained institution. Its importance in society is secondary to the primary institution, which is the home. By the same token, government parallels the church. Whereas in the divine economy the church is primarily to order and discipline the affairs of born-gain believers, in society as a whole the government exists as a method of resisting evil on the