Clark Pinnock
| Clark H. Pinnock | |
|---|---|
| Born |
February 3, 1937 Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Died | August 15, 2010 (aged 73) |
| Occupation | Christian theologian, apologist and author |
| Academic background | |
| Education | University of Toronto |
| Alma mater | Manchester University (PhD) |
| Thesis title | The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit in St. Paul |
| Doctoral advisor | F. F. Bruce |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions |
New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary Trinity Evangelical Divinity School Regent College |
Clark H. Pinnock (Toronto, Ontario, Canada, February 3, 1937 – August 15, 2010) was a Christian theologian, apologist and author. He was Professor Emeritus of Systematic Theology at McMaster Divinity College.
Pinnock was born in Toronto, Canada on February 3, 1937. He grew up in a liberal Baptist congregation. Pinnock once recounted that as a child he had little interest in the church. Even though he was brought up in Liberal Christianity, he later became part of the broad Evangelical tradition, and explored Reformed, Arminian and Pentecostal streams of thought.
Pinnock described his shifts in thought as a pilgrimage: "So I do not apologize for admitting to being on a pilgrimage in theology, as if it were in itself some kind of weakness of intelligence or character. Feeling our way toward the truth is the nature of theological work even with the help of Scripture, tradition and community .... A pilgrimage, therefore, far from being unusual or slightly dishonorable, is what we would expect theologians who are properly aware of their limitations to experience."
Pinnock studied in the Ancient Near Eastern Studies program at the University of Toronto and in 1960 he was graduated. Because he was very outstanding, he then was awarded both a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship to Harvard and a British Commonwealth Scholarship to England. Pinnock decided to go to England to study under F.F. Bruce at Manchester University. The dissertation for his Ph.D was “The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit in St. Paul”. Several years later, in 1965, he joined the faculty of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. From 1969 to 1974 Pinnock taught at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Illinois, and from 1974 to 1977 at Regent College in Vancouver. He taught at McMaster Divinity College from 1977 until his retirement in 2002.
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