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Gordon Haddon Clark

American philosopher & theologian (1902-1985) · United States · On the map · Academics · Died at 82

Gordon Haddon Clark 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.

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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.

Country
United States
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1902 to 1985 · aged 82