God's Sovereign Providence is the Metanarrative!
Recently I’ve been reading John Flavel’s short treatise on Isa. 26:20, titled The Righteous Man’s Refuge [highly recommended and found in Flavel’s Works, vol. 3]. Flavel’s main point in this work is that the attributes of God are a very real refuge for the believer in times of trial and testing. Finishing that work, it … Continue reading Gordon Clark’s Foreword to Charnock’s Attributes of God
This is the third and last of Dr. Clark’s replies to Buswell’s review and critique of Clark’s work, A CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION. Buswell had begun with a review of that work, to which Clark replied, Buswell commented, and so on. As with the Buswell-Van Til exchange, in this exchange Buswell gives his opponent the … Continue reading Clark Gets the Last Word
Clark now replies with some elaboration of his apologetic approach. Concerning System and Demonstration By GORDON H. CLARK Dr. Clark very kindly gives us here a clarification of his use of the word “system”, and further comment on so called “isolated facts”, “neutral facts”, and geometrical “demonstration.” Editorial comment follows his article; see page 114 … Continue reading Clark Elaborates His Approach
Continuing our series on the 1947-1948 exchange between J. Oliver Buswell and Gordon H. Clark, the following is Clark’s initial reply to Buswell’s review of Clark’s book, A CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION. And as with the series of exchanges between Buswell and Van Til, this series too provides a lesson in the exercise of Christian … Continue reading Clark’s Reply
Prior to the series of articles on presuppositionalism that appeared in THE BIBLE TODAY, there was about a year earlier another series begun by Dr. Buswell when he reviewed A CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY, by Dr. Gordon H. Clark. This series of exchanges between Buswell and Clark will include the following: Articles in the Buswell-Clark Series … Continue reading Buswell Reviews Clark (1947)
As I had indicated previously, the father of Gordon H. Clark, the Rev. David S. Clark, wrote at least a half-dozen articles that appeared on the pages of THE PRESBYTERIAN in the 1920’s. Here Rev. Clark addresses the errors of the higher critical method. Modernism and the Higher Criticism by Rev. David S. Clark, D.D. … Continue reading Clark’s Daddy Is Back : Higher Criticism
Getting back to our exploration of some of the articles in THE PRESBYTERIAN, there is this by the Rev. David Scott Clark [1859-1939], father of Gordon Haddon Clark. It would seem the apple didn’t fall far from the tree. There are several other articles by D.S. Clark that appeared in The PRESBYTERIAN, and I will try … Continue reading Before Clark there was Clark
I often come across the most interesting and useful things while searching out a patron’s request for some article or other material. For context, this article was written in the midst of those years leading up to the formation of the Presbyterian Church in America. Dr. Strong’s audience would have been those men who were … Continue reading A History Lesson, by Robert Strong
This is a portion of an interesting review of the 1914 General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, U.S. (aka, Southern), written by Columbia Theological Seminary professor, R.C. Reed [1851-1925]. His report is interesting for dating the noted change in the conduct of the Southern Presbyterian Assembly, from that of a more deliberative body to something … Continue reading No Time to Debate It.
A Working Bibliography on In Thesi Deliverances Following some recent discussion on this topic, I thought a bibliography might be helpful. [The entries below with added comments were taken from David Coffin’s bibliography on ecclesiastical judicial procedures, in particular, the section, ‘On the Powers of the Assembly in Judicial Cases and the Doctrine of Stare … Continue reading A Working Bibliography on In Thesi Deliverances
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