Robert Scott Clark is an American Reformed Pastor and Seminary Professor. He is the author of several books, including his most recent work, Recovering the Reformed Confession.

Biography

Clark earned his B.A. from the University of Nebraska, Master of Divinity from Westminster Seminary California

Westminster Seminary California

Westminster Seminary California is a Reformed Christian graduate educational institution located 25 miles north of San Diego, California in Escondido. It was initially a branch campus of Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia until 1982 when it became fully independent...

, and D. Phil from the University of Oxford

University of Oxford

The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...

. Since 1997 he has been teaching at Westminster Seminary California, where he served as Academic Dean from 1997-2001; currently he is Professor of Church History and Historical Theology. He has also taught at Wheaton College (Illinois)

Wheaton College (Illinois)

Wheaton College is a private, evangelical Protestant liberal arts college in Wheaton, Illinois, a suburb west of Chicago in the United States...

, Reformed Theological Seminary

Reformed Theological Seminary

Reformed Theological Seminary is a non-denominational, evangelical Protestant seminary. RTS's first campus remains in Jackson, Mississippi, United States though the school has expanded to include several additional campuses.-Founding:...

, Jackson, and Concordia University, Irvine

Concordia University, Irvine

Concordia University is a private, liberal arts university located in Irvine, California, United States and affiliated with the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod. It offers both undergraduate and graduate degrees in six colleges and is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges...

. He is an ordained minister, currently serving at Oceanside United Reformed Church as the Associate Pastor.

Author

• Recovering the Reformed Confession: Our Theology, Piety, and Practice (Phillipsburg: P&R Publishing, 2008) (ISBN 1596381108)
• Caspar Olevian and the Substance of the Covenant: The Double Benefit of Christ (Edinburgh: Rutherford House, December 2005) (ISBN 9781601780539)

Editor and Contributor

• William Ames, A Sketch of the Christian's Catechism Classic Reformed Theology vol. 1 (Grand Rapids: Reformation Heritage Press, 2008) (ISBN 9781601780464)
• Covenant, Justification and Pastoral Ministry: Essays by the Faculty of Westminster Seminary California (ISBN 1596380357)
• Protestant Scholasticism: Essays in Reassessment, ed., Carl Trueman and R. Scott Clark (Carlisle, UK: Paternoster, 1999), 111-26.(ISBN 1-59752-788-2)

Contributor

• Calvin: A Negative Boundary Marker In American Lutheran Self-Identity, 1871–1934. in Johan de Niet, Herman Paul and Bart Wallet, ed. Sober, Strict, and Scriptural: Collective Memories of John Calvin, 1800-2000. (Brill, 2009), (ISBN 9789004174245)
• The Benefits of Christ: Double Justification in Protestant Theology before the Westminster Assembly in Anthony T. Selvaggio, ed. The Faith Once Delivered: Essays in Honor of Dr. Wayne R. Spear (Phillipsburg: P&R Publishing, 2007), 107-34. (ISBN 1596380209)
• Election and Predestination: Sovereign Expressions of God, in David Hall and Peter Lillback, ed. A Theological Guide to Calvin’s Institutes: Essays and Analysis (Phillipsburg: P&R Publishing, 2008). (ISBN 1596380918)
• Whosever Will Be Saved: Emerging Church? Meet Christian Dogma, in Gary Johnson ed., Reforming or Conforming: Post-Conservative Evangelicals and the Emerging Church (Wheaton: Crossway, 2008). (ISBN 143350118X)
• Reconstructionism, in The New Dictionary of Christian Apologetics, eds Campbell Campbell-Jack, Gavin J. McGrath (Leicester: Inter-Varsity Press, 2006). (ISBN 0830824510)
• Janus, the Well-Meant Offer of the Gospel and Westminster Theology, in David VanDrunen, ed., The Pattern of Sound Words: A Festschrift for Robert B. Strimple (Phillipsburg: P&R Publishing, 2004), 149-80. (ISBN 0875527175)
• [with Joel R. Beeke], Ursinus, Oxford and the Westminster Divines, in The Westminster Confession into the 21st Century: Essays in Remembrance of the 350th Anniversary of the Publication of the Westminster Confession of Faith, 3 vol. ed. Ligon Duncan (Ross-Shire, Scotland: Mentor, 2003), 2. 1-32. (ISBN 1857928628)
• The Authority of Reason in the Later Reformation: Scholasticism in Caspar Olevian and Antoine de La Faye, in Protestant Scholasticism: Essays in Reassessment, ed., Carl Trueman and R. Scott Clark (Carlisle, UK: Paternoster, 1999), 111-26. (ISBN 1597527882)
• Calvin as Negative Boundary Marker in American Lutheran Self-Identity, in Johan de Niet, Herman Paul, and Bart Wallet, ed., The Modern Calvin: John Calvin in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Memory Cultures (Leiden: Brill, 2009).
• The Evangelical Fall from the Means of Grace, in The Compromised Church, ed. John Armstrong (Wheaton: Crossway, 1998), 133-47. (ISBN 1581340060)

Journal Articles

• Iustitia Imputata Christi: Alien or Proper to Luther’s Doctrine of Justification? Concordia Theological Quarterly 70 (2006): 269-310.
• Baptism and the Benefits of Christ: The Double Mode of Communion in the Covenant of Grace, The Confessional Presbyterian Journal 2 (2006): 3-19.
• The Catholic-Calvinist Trinitarianism of Caspar Olevian, Westminster Theological Journal 61 (1999): 15–39.
• Calvin and the Lex Naturalis, Stulos Theological Journal 6 (1998): 1–22.

External links

• Monergism.com Mp3 Library - Audio recordings of Clark on various theological subjects.