Notes on the thought of Gordon H. Clark

I’ve got an abundance of these books. For $50 I’ll send you all 11 of the following books. (and free shipping) Religion, Reason, and Revelation First John New Heavens New Earth Philippians Colossians The Atonement Language and Theology Study Guide to the Westminster Confession (Crampton) God and Evil Karl Barth’s Theological Method Personal Recollections These

Note: This is the text of a speech I gave on Aug 2, 2014 at the Christians for Liberty Conference in Austin, TX. I can’t seem to copy the footnotes over correctly. If you’re interested in where the references come from, let me know and I can give you a full pdf copy of my

After much searching I’ve finally found back issues of Christianity Today. Gordon Clark wrote a number of articles for CT in the 1960’s. Included was one on Karl Barth’s speech at the University of Chicago. It seems Carl F.H. Henry, the editor of CT, was out of the country on business and so hired Clark

Well, it looks like it has been almost 2 months since my last update. Let’s see. Here are some things that have happened or are happening. 1) A few helpful editors are doing great work for me pro bono! You guys rock! 2) I found a letter from Edward Carnell to Gordon Clark at the

Its easy to pick on Cornelius Van Til for his logical failures and at times nonsensical writings. However, here is a letter of his I really appreciate. Short, to the point, and Christian.

This if the fourth foreword/introduction/preface that I’ve found of Gordon Clark’s. It is from Erwin Lutzer’s 1972 book The Morality Gap.

Anyone who thinks a book project is entirely first research and then writing would be quite wrong. As I write about a particular era I find that more research is necessary. When research discovers new items, I have new areas to write about. And the cycle goes on. I managed to visit an archives in

This comical article from 1935 mentions David S. Clark, the father of Gordon Clark.

A precursor institution to the Orthodox Presbyterian Church was known as the Presbyterian Constitutional Covenant Union. Take a look at this expansion of an area of a picture taken of the PCCU and see if you can find Gordon Clark and Cornelius Van Til.

My big interest this past week has been in investigating the origins of presuppositionalism and the Clark-Van Til controversy. To this end I’ve been studying B.B. Warfield and Abraham Kuyper. Honestly, I haven’t figured out much despite reading “Benjamin B. Warfield and Right Reason” by Owen Anderson. I’m now working through “Unapologetic Apologetics” by ed.