Gordon Clark Philosopher

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 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 his rigor in defending propositional revelation against all forms of empiricism and rationalism, in arguing that all truth is propositional and thus uses the laws of logic. His theory of knowledge is sometimes called scripturalism.

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Birth date	August 31, 1902
Birth place	Philadelphia
Date of death	April 09, 1985
Era	20th-century philosophy
Main interest	Epistemology Philosophy of religion

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influenced	Carl F. H. Henry John Gerstner Edward John Carnell Robert L. Reymond Ronald H. Nash
influenced by	Aristotle Augustine of Hippo John Calvin Plato B. B. Warfield Charles Hodge Edgar A. Singer Jr. Herman Hoeksema
notable idea	Scripturalism
philosophical school	Calvinism Presuppositional apologetics Christian philosophy
region	Western philosophy