Why is the seminary called Grace School of Theology?
A. We began under the name “Houston Seminary” in the fall of 2002 but soon learned that an unconstitutional Texas law prohibited the use of the word “seminary” in an institution’s name or description without state approval. While waiting for challenges to that law to succeed, we changed our name to Grace School of Theology which both fit within the framework of Texas law and fairly described our institution. The Texas Supreme Court overruled the unconstitutional law in the fall of 2007, but we elected to keep our name as is. As the concept of salvation by works has crept into evangelical theology, we want to make clear by our name that we are founded by and for free grace and that we stand against theology claiming in any way that eternal salvation is obtained by anything other than receiving the free gift salvation by believing in Jesus Christ for it.
