Image: Gordon Clark (1902-1985)
I ran across this quote in Gordon Clark’s Religion, Reason, and Revelation (Craig Press, 1961):
From the standpoint of Calvinism,
anti-intellectualism, a disparagement of creeds, an essentially emotional
outlook or a reliance on some ineffable mystical experience is a far more
serious error in religion than some unfortunate illustration in popular preaching.
It may sound pious to minimize belief in a creed and to exalt faith in a
person; but the implication is that it makes little or no difference what a man
believes. Religion, I refuse to say Christianity, thus becomes non-doctrinal.
This anti-intellectualism, clearly, is a broader theory than faulty psychology;
and if faulty psychology conflicts with Christianity at one or two points, the
broader theory will conflict at many more—in fact, all points (p. 101).
JTR
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