Wednesday, February 22, 2023

Gordon Clark: Concerning the Holy Spirit (PCA Archives)

I have a pdf version of the original scan of Clark's personal and typewritten notes on the Holy Spirit that I can share with those who want to comment below and have me email it to them. All of the typewriting and most of the handwriting correspond to Clark's book, The Holy Spirit. I may have missed something, but the following, at least is extra material.
 
Post 1980. Concerning the Holy Spirit (PCA Archives, Typed, 42 pages, and 36 pages, majority is published in The Holy Spirit)

[Ed: The following notes likely refer to pages 85 and 86 in The Holy Spirit (1993).]

Check if[?] Pentecostal or The Way

Acts 9:5-6 do not have the words I need. But Acts 22:10 and 26:14 have them. 

Adjust my argument, if necessary.

p. 107 Xerox

Delete 9:5 and add 26:14

Make these changes in the main manuscript.

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[Ed: The following paragraph would likely have been inserted around page 4 or 5 in The Holy Spirit (1993).]

So early in this lecture concerning the Holy Spirit a young student, particularly if he has not had a course on the Trinity, might be nonplussed, overwhelmed, and utterly discouraged by finding that in order to learn about the Holy Spirit, he must study cacti, regular solids, and the logic of definition. But if theology is as important as botany, and if physicists spend their entire life juggling differential equations, should not a Christian resolutely and patiently try to understand the "nature" of the Holy Spirit whose more obvious activities commonly permeate devotional literature? The trouble is that devotional literature very commonly fails to be both intelligible and Biblical. God is not a God of confusion. God is the God of truth; and a devotion to truth is what most churches most conspicuously lack.

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