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.). The following is my distillation of the Barthian argument to which Clark assents. Barth is attacking the Roman Catholic viewpoint as expressed at the Vatican Council of 24 April 1870.
1) The Christian God is triune.
2) The rationally demonstrable God is not triune.
Therefore
3) The Christian God is not the rationally demonstrable God.
Therefore
4) The Christian God is not the God of the philosophers.
Therefore
5) We cannot know God from nature, 'cosmologically,' by natural reason. (Natural theology is a non-starter.)
Therefore
6) We can know God only through God.
It is perhaps obvious why the presuppositionalist Clark would like this argument. Clark strikes me as the best theologian among the presuppositionalists. The book cited is extremely rich in provocative ideas.
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