{"id":1012,"date":"2024-01-18T05:31:25","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T05:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/01\/18\/a-clarkian-barthian-argument-for-your-evaluation\/"},"modified":"2024-01-18T05:31:25","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T05:31:25","slug":"a-clarkian-barthian-argument-for-your-evaluation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/01\/18\/a-clarkian-barthian-argument-for-your-evaluation\/","title":{"rendered":"A Clarkian-Barthian  Argument for your Evaluation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Gordon Clark in <em>Religion, Reason, and Revelation (<\/em> The Trinity Foundation, 1986, pp. 37-38) discusses and agrees with Karl Barth (<em>Church Dogmatics<\/em> II, 1, pp. 79 ff.).&#0160; The following is my distillation of the Barthian argument to which Clark assents.&#0160; Barth is attacking the Roman Catholic viewpoint as expressed at the Vatican Council of 24 April 1870.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">1) The Christian God is triune.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">2) The rationally demonstrable God is not triune.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Therefore<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">3) The Christian God is not the rationally demonstrable God.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Therefore<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">4) The Christian God is not the God of the philosophers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Therefore<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">5) We cannot know God from nature, &#39;cosmologically,&#39; by natural reason. (Natural theology is a non-starter.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Therefore<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">6) We can know God only through God.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">It is perhaps obvious why the presuppositionalist Clark would like this argument. Clark strikes me as the best theologian among the presuppositionalists.&#0160; The book cited is extremely rich in provocative ideas.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gordon Clark in Religion, Reason, and Revelation ( The Trinity Foundation, 1986, pp. 37-38) discusses and agrees with Karl Barth (Church Dogmatics II, 1, pp. 79 ff.).&#0160; The following is my distillation of the Barthian argument to which Clark assents.&#0160; Barth is attacking the Roman Catholic viewpoint as expressed at the Vatican Council of 24 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/01\/18\/a-clarkian-barthian-argument-for-your-evaluation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Clarkian-Barthian  Argument for your Evaluation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[422,423,143,63,194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barth-karl","category-clark-gordon","category-god","category-theology","category-van-til-and-presuppositionalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}