18 Facts About Clark Pinnock

Clark H Pinnock was a Canadian theologian, apologist, and author.

Clark Pinnock was Professor Emeritus of Systematic Theology at McMaster Divinity College.

Clark Pinnock once recounted that as a child he had little interest in the church.

Clark Pinnock studied in the Ancient Near Eastern Studies program at the University of Toronto, graduating in 1960.

Clark Pinnock then was awarded both a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship to Harvard and a British Commonwealth Scholarship to England.

From 1969 to 1974, Clark Pinnock taught at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Illinois, and from 1974 to 1977 at Regent College in Vancouver.

Clark Pinnock taught at McMaster Divinity College from 1977 until his retirement in 2002.

For example, Clark Pinnock's most thorough work of systematic theology may be his book Flame of Love, which was a 1997 Christianity Today book award winner.

Clark Pinnock's theology centered around the Trinity, and it was both sacramental and charismatic.

Clark Pinnock drew on influences from within Protestantism, Pentecostalism, Roman Catholicism, and Eastern Orthodoxy.

Clark Pinnock contended that pluralism is a major issue in modern theology and that strict exclusivism is as well.

Clark Pinnock said that it is misguided to affirm that general revelation can only condemn since God is the Lord of both general and special revelation.

Clark Pinnock sought to back this up from a scriptural perspective, citing examples like Melchizedek.

Clark Pinnock's book Tracking the Maze dealt with the situation of modern theology and sought to arrive at a way forward, and The Scripture Principle, coauthored with Barry Callen, explored an evangelical view of Scripture.

Clark Pinnock wrote articles on several other issues, including an annihilationist view of hell.

Clark Pinnock faulted the traditional view for grossly distorting the character of God and being based on unbiblical presuppositions.

Clark Pinnock claimed that, since souls are not inherently eternal, it is not hard to understand imagery like consuming fire to consume and eternal destruction to mean destroyed eternally.

Clark Pinnock noted that this is still a very serious matter for one to miss out on all that one was intended for.