Peter Speaks Today, A Devotional Commentary on First Peter, by Gordon H. Clark, Philadelphia: Presbyterian and Reformed, 1967, 159 pp. This is the first of a number Biblical commentaries written by Gordon Clark. In time his published commentaries would cover 1 Peter, 2 Peter, 1 Corinthians, Colossians, 1 John, 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, Titus, Ephesians, …
What Do Presbyterians Believe? The Westminster Confession Yesterday and Today, by Gordon H. Clark, Phillipsburg, NJ: Presbyterian and Reformed, 1965, 2001, 284 pp. This book is a revision and expansion of Gordon Clark’s earlier What Presbyterians Believe. In the preface to the 1965 edition Clark critiques the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of …
The Philosophy of Science and Belief in God, by Gordon H. Clark, Nutley, NJ: The Craig Press, 1964, 2nd edition 1987, 121 pp. On the cover of the 2nd edition of Gordon Clark’s The Philosophy of Science and Belief in God is a picture of the Space Shuttle Challenger. The editor of the book, John Robbins, …
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William James, by Gordon H. Clark, Philadelphia: Presbyterian and Reformed, 1963, 47 pp. This book, writes Gordon Clark, was “designed to help the defense and development of Christian theism.” As such it is one of many critiques he wrote against some particular philosophy. In that category we might also include his Dewey and Karl Barth’s …
https://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=1129181330252334 Sermon on Romans 6:1-13 – “Walk in Newness of Life November 25, 2018 at Dillingham Presbyterian Church I. Review In chapter 5 Paul had argued that we are to be assured of our salvation in Jesus Christ, and that the forgiveness we have in Christ is far greater than the sin we have in …
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Karl Barth’s Theological Method, by Gordon H. Clark, Philadelphia: Presbyterian and Reformed, 1963, 2nd edition 1997, 277 pp. Having written extensively on this book in the article “Gordon Clark Among Reformed Critics of Karl Barth” (See here) no further review shall here be attempted. My article on Clark and Barth is also available in two parts in …
Religion, Reason, and Revelation, by Gordon H. Clark, Philadelphia: Presbyterian and Reformed, 1961, 2nd edition 1995, 264 pp. Religion, Reason, and Revelation was the book—so I was once told by Linda Robbins—that brought her husband, the late John Robbins, to support and defend the philosophy of Gordon H. Clark. And this, she informed me, was …
Dewey, by Gordon H. Clark, Philadelphia: Presbyterian and Reformed, 1960, 69 pp. Most books on John Dewey focus on his views on education. Gordon Clark however critiques Dewey’s underlying philosophy. The work is technical and difficult to follow in places. It might even be one of the less important of Clark’s books to read. But …
Thales to Dewey, A History of Philosophy, An Entertaining and Enlightening Survey of the Word’s Great Thought, by Gordon H. Clark, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1957, 548 pp. Why, after writing two books on Christian philosophy, did Gordon Clark go back to writing on philosophy more generally? Possibly he was just interested in having a book …
March 19 1957 Dear Carl, First Marcellus sends me a book to review; then you send me Carnell’s galleys, and then you send me 50 pages on natural law with a request to write an editorial on the subject. Well, I’ll try. You do not state how you want me to use the paper you …
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What Presbyterians Believe, An exposition of the Westminster Confession, by Gordon H. Clark, Philadelphia: Presbyterian and Reformed, 1956, 130 pp. What Presbyterians Believe is the first of two books Gordon Clark wrote on the Westminster Confession of Faith. The second—What Do Presbyterians Believe? (1965)—is more well known and is an expansion of the first. The …
