Gordon H. Clark Quotes

Gordon Haddon Clark 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. Wikipedia

✵ 31. August 1902 – 9. April 1985

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Gordon H. Clark Quotes

“The purpose of art is expression. Of course this short sentence raises many questions. By itself it is uninformative. One should specify what art can and cannot express. One should specify what art should and should not express. These questions cannot be answered without having some notion of the nature of man. Here it is presupposed that God created man as essentially a rational being. This implies that man’s most valuable expressions are rational and intellectual. Therefore, although man can express emotion, by screaming “Ouch,” art becomes more human and valuable in proportion to its intellectual content. This does not deny that excellent technique may express triviality, evil, and insanity. It asserts, however, that what should be expressed is rational and intelligent.”

Gordon H. Clark

“Christian Aesthetics,” The Trinity Review, May 1989.

God , Art , Intelligence , Question

“The more thorough the understanding needed, the further back in time one must go.”

Gordon H. Clark

A Christian View of Men and Things (1951), p. 58.

Understanding , Time

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