Notes on the thought of Gordon H. Clark

A disagreement in apologetics between B. B. Warfield and Abraham Kuyper a generation prior sheds light on the origins of the Clark-Van Til controversy. Warfield followed a long line of Princeton professors in his apologetic approach. In fact, the Princeton approach itself was a continuation of Scottish Common Sense Realism philosophy, traceable to the eighteenth

This should be a good month in my work on Gordon Clark. For one, I plan to contact at least 3 publishers by months-end. I’m also getting close to finishing the transcriptions of all of Clark’s works and letters. Out of 760 letters, about 690 are transcribed. And out of about 360 documents of Clark’s

Gordon Clark on the Problems of Empiricism by Douglas J. Douma June 25, 2015 Empiricism has been, and is, a prominent epistemology among both secular and Christian philosophers. It is often accepted as the “common sense” epistemology, but certainly hasn’t been without its detractors in the history of philosophy. Many ancient Greek philosophers, Plato and

Dr. Clark’s daughter has an overstock of these books, which I’m selling for her. Rather than selling them one-by-one, which was too time-consuming, this year I’m offering this lot of 16 books for $80. That is $5/book. Free shipping. If you’d like them, send me a check at Douglas Douma 6160 CR 130 Westcliffe, CO

I haven’t made a post on my blog in a while because I’ve been spending a lot of time adding material to the Gordon Clark foundation website where I’m an administrator. If you haven’t seen the articles we’ve posted, go check them out. Over 100 unpublished articles are now available. And we’ve got a photo

I basically consider myself a “Reformed Libertarian,” and regularly read C.Jay Engel’s blog http://reformedlibertarian.com. Recently there has been a lot of questions about Reformed Libertarianism and how it compares with Theonomy.  I haven’t studied Theonomy too aggressively but have this week read a few books on the topic. A question I’ve been dealing with since this

The approach that Gordon Clark took to the believability of the Bible had an almost instantaneous effect on me. His clarity and rigor of thought (as well as his boldness) was completely disarming and I found myself accepting the truth of the scriptures without much resistance. This recent interview I conducted with of one of

It is tedious to write a book when often new pieces of information come to light and sections must be re-written! I’ve found a few new GHC letters recently in the collection I photocopied at the PCA archives. I also found a high school essay of Clark’s on the back of his math homework in

While teaching at Wheaton College (1937-1943) Dr. Clark actually used Dr. Van Til’s syllabi for some of his philosophy classes. One syllabus on Christian Apologetics in the Sangre de Cristo Seminary library has Dr. Clark’s handwritten note that it was given to him as a gift from Van Til in 1940. A typed note in

I’ve completed the first draft of the biography, but am still coming across new information. One area that I’m working on is a later-life reconciliation between Clark and Van Til. I’ve confirmed that GHC taught at Geneva College in the Fall of 1974. I’ve been making progress on analyzing the Clark case in the OPC

Wayne Sparkman, the archivist at the PCA archives, once warned me that if I didn’t note a document when I found it, I’d likely not find it again. I was fearful that he was correct regarding this document I was looking for about the “Wheaton Lectures.” The Wheaton Lectures, three of them, became the material