Gordon Haddon Clark was an American philosopher and Calvinist theologian.
10 Facts About Gordon Clark
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Gordon Clark was a leading figure associated with presuppositional apologetics and was chairman of the Philosophy Department at Butler University for 28 years.
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Gordon Clark was an expert in pre-Socratic and ancient philosophy and was noted for defending the idea of propositional revelation against empiricism and rationalism, in arguing that all truth is propositional.
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Gordon Clark began teaching at the University of Pennsylvania after receiving his bachelor's degree and taught at the Reformed Episcopal Seminary in Philadelphia.
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Gordon Clark was born into and eventually became a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America.
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Gordon Clark was instrumental in arranging a merger between the RPCGS and the Evangelical Presbyterian Church to form the Reformed Presbyterian Church, Evangelical Synod in 1965.
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Gordon Clark was elected president of the Evangelical Theological Society in 1965.
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Gordon Clark died in 1985 and was buried near Westcliffe, Colorado.
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At the time of his death, Gordon Clark was survived by his two daughters and their husbands, 12 grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.
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Gordon Clark was a prolific author who wrote more than forty books, including texts on ancient and contemporary philosophy, volumes on Christian doctrines, commentaries on the New Testament and a one-volume history of philosophy.