I’ve now received all of Gordon Clark’s correspondence kept at the PCA Archives in St. Louis and have read through the majority of it. Combined with material from other archives I now have 314 letters, 102 sermons, and countless articles written by Gordon Clark. Here are some items of interest: 1. There are extant a …
With all his ecclesiastical controversy and time spent defending the faith, it could almost be overlooked that Dr. Gordon Clark was firstly a philosophy professor. A summary of the courses he taught in his years at Butler University and Covenant College is shown. Perhaps the funniest part here is that he had to teach “Introduction …
With all his ecclesiastical controversy and time spent defending the faith, it could almost be overlooked that Dr. Gordon Clark was firstly a philosophy professor. A summary of the courses he taught in his years at Butler University and Covenant College is shown. Perhaps the funniest part here is that he had to teach “Introduction …
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From the Indianapolis News, with multiple spelling errors: On the defense of compulsory unionism which alleges that unions confer benefits on all laborers, Dr. Clark says: “The unions make a spacious [sic] defense by claiming that all workmen should help pay for the privileges that the unions have won. “This piece of propaganda is exploded …
This letter is notable for a couple reasons. Firstly, it notes that the Calvinist booklets Hamilton sent to the College were “accidentally” trashed. Secondly, Hamilton expresses his concern for Wheaton College’s actions which led to the resignation of Gordon Clark.
Although this copy comes from the file of Wheaton President, V. Raymond Edman, it is unsigned. Its context may be related to discussions with Edman and and Butler University who was making an inquiry into Dr. Clark’s job history prior to hiring him.
In this article Dr. Gordon Clark critiques hyper-calvinism and argues that we should preach the Gospel to “all that we possibly, or at least conveniently, can.”
From the “Clark Collection” at Sangre de Cristo.
It is surprising how little information on Dr. Clark there is in his faculty file at Butler University considering the fact that he taught there for 28 years. Unlike Wheaton College, which has a collection of letters between Dr. Clark and two presidents of the institution, Butler has just a few scraps of information. One …
The oldest letter in the Gordon Clark collection is one of his father’s. In 1880 James Brush of Mount Union College sent a letter of recommendation for David Scott Clark. It would have been in the summer after David Scott Clark’s first year at the college. In reads: Mount Union, July 18, 1880 To whom …
