Gordon Clark

Gordon Haddon Clark
BornAugust 31, 1902
DiedApril 9, 1985 (1985-04-10) (aged 82)
Philosophical work
Era20th-century philosophy
RegionWestern Philosophy
SchoolCalvinist
Presuppositionalism
Christian Philosophy
Main interestsEpistemology
Philosophy of Religion
Notable ideasScripturalism

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.