Gordon Clark

Gordon Haddon Clark
BornAugust 31, 1902
DiedApril 9, 1985 (1985-04-10) (aged 82)
Era20th-century philosophy
RegionWestern Philosophy
SchoolCalvinist
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 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.