Gordon Clark
Gordon Clark | |
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| Born | Gordon Haddon Clark August 31, 1902 |
| Died | April 9, 1985 (aged 82) |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| Calvinism Presuppositionalism Christian philosophy | |
Main interests | Epistemology Philosophy of religion |
Notable ideas | Scripturalism |
Gordon Haddon Clark (August 31, 1902 – April 9, 1985) was an American philosopher and Calvinist theologian. He was a leading figure associated with presuppositional apologetics, although not a presuppositonalist himself, and was chairman of the Philosophy Department at Butler University for 28 years. He 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. His theory of knowledge is sometimes called scripturalism.