25 Facts About Paige Patterson

Paige Patterson was born on October 19,1942 and is a Baptist former administrator from the United States.

Paige Patterson played a major role in the Southern Baptist "conservative resurgence".

Paige Patterson has been alternately described as a fundamentalist and a conservative evangelical.

Paige Patterson held several pastorates before becoming president of the Criswell Center for Biblical Studies in Dallas, Texas, a position from which he was eventually fired.

Paige Patterson was elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention in both 1998 and 1999.

Paige Patterson has lectured and preached extensively and authored and edited many books and journals.

Paige Patterson served on the board of trustees of Cedarville University until he resigned on May 31,2018.

Paige Patterson began preaching as a teenager, and continues to preach in churches and seminaries around the world.

Paige Patterson is a strong proponent of expository preaching, once saying, "There is no genuinely good preaching except exposition".

Paige Patterson has written on the topic of preaching, including the introduction to the 2010 publication Text-Driven Preaching: God's Word at the Heart of Every Sermon.

Paige Patterson is best known for his prominent role in the Southern Baptist Convention conservative resurgence starting in 1979 with the election of Adrian Rogers as Convention President.

In 1998, Paige Patterson was elected as president of the Southern Baptist Convention.

Paige Patterson's influence has been felt at all levels of Southern Baptist life.

Paige Patterson has been associated with the Council for National Policy, an umbrella organization and networking group for social conservative activists in the United States.

Paige Patterson served as the president of Criswell College in Dallas, Texas from 1975 to 1992.

Paige Patterson has attracted interest because of his stance on the role of women in church and his opposition to ordaining women as ministers.

Paige Patterson has compared female submissiveness to submissiveness to a police officer.

The claims against Paige Patterson were dismissed as they exceeded the statute of limitations.

However, on April 6,2021, in reaction to the abuse cover up allegations, Officials at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas would remove Paige Patterson's stained glass image, as well as the image of numerous other SBC conservative resurgence leaders, from the MacGorman Chapel, a $30 million building which opened in 2011.

Paige Patterson's firing affected his standing in Baptist circles more broadly.

Since 2003, Paige Patterson had served on the board of trustees of Cedarville University, a Baptist institution.

Paige Patterson's standing in the SBC was affected by his firing.

In mid-October 2018, Paige Patterson accepted the opportunity to co-teach an ethics course at Southern Evangelical Seminary.

In October 2021, Paige Patterson was elected to a three-year term on the board of trustees of Yellowstone Christian College in Kalispell, Montana.

The suit claims Roe is the same student about whom Paige Patterson had promised to "break her down".