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In this article Dr. Gordon Clark critiques hyper-calvinism and argues that we should preach the Gospel to “all that we possibly, or at least conveniently, can.”

From the “Clark Collection” at Sangre de Cristo.

It is surprising how little information on Dr. Clark there is in his faculty file at Butler University considering the fact that he taught there for 28 years. Unlike Wheaton College, which has a collection of letters between Dr. Clark and two presidents of the institution, Butler has just a few scraps of information. One

The oldest letter in the Gordon Clark collection is one of his father’s.  In 1880 James Brush of Mount Union College sent a letter of recommendation for David Scott Clark. It would have been in the summer after David Scott Clark’s first year at the college. In reads: Mount Union, July 18, 1880 To whom

Last fall at the Sangre de Cristo Seminary I spent a few long evenings in the “Clark Library” perusing material from the Gordon Clark Collection.  The collection of books towers to the extent of your reach and stretches to just a few inches off the floor on bookshelves forming the entire interior western wall of

The law of contradiction requires that a word have a definite meaning. Now if a word has all possible meanings, it means nothing. Suppose there was a word in the dictionary and you look it up in the dictionary and the meanings were all other words in the dictionary. Suppose the word were automobile. The

The picture below is of an original note of Gordon Clark’s on the topic “The Word Knowledge.” Harkening back to the “Clark-Van Til Controversy” he writes about a distinction between the “mode” and “object” of knowledge. This distinction, seemingly ungrasped by the authors of “The Complaint”, would have, if accepted, helped clarify a major misunderstanding

One of the interesting letters I’ve found in the “Clark Library” at Sangre de Cristo Seminary is from Bernard Ramm to Gordon Clark. Unfortunately, no date is listed on this letter. Bernard Ramm (1916-1992) was a leading Baptist theologian and apologist. It reads in part: Dear Gordon: This is just a word of thanks! Last

In a letter from Gordon Clark to Cornelius Van Til, August 28, 1937, he writes: ; “Perhaps you will admit this criticism so far as it goes, and reply that you rest your proposition on the necessity of solving the one and many problem. To this I would suggest that Christianity does not face the

For part of the biography I’m writing on Gordon Clark I’m researching into the relationship of Clark to his later philosophic adversary, Cornelius Van Til. In 1936 (and perhaps in later years) Clark actually taught from Van Til’s material at Wheaton College. In prior years it seems they knew each other in Philadelphia and often