Introduction--A Review of the Book "A Christian View of Men and Things" by Gordon H. Clark C1S3

"Christianity is a comprehensive view of all
things: It takes the world, both material
and spiritual, to be an ordered system."
Gordon H. Clark

The Unity of Truth

One might be encountering despair at this point, because of the amount of answers needed to make sense out of life. However, from asking these questions there has been a gain, for one suspects that all these questions are interrelated. This view of philosophy that all questions are interrelated accords with a Christian worldview. For, "Christianity is a comprehensive view of all things: It takes the world, both material and spiritual, to be an ordered system." The reason for this is that if there is an Omniscient God who created everything in orderly fashion as the Christian believes, all problems would fit together like a puzzle.

However, this does not mean that we cannot learn anything from the particulars or that the particulars do not affect the whole. For if a man was to have a piece of the puzzle but not the whole thing he could still understand that one piece to a certain extent and therefore the whole to a certain extent. In addition if the particular is not necessary for the whole, there would be no way to start solving the puzzle. Therefore, to understand the particulars, you need the whole and to understand the whole, the particulars are needed. Everything is interrelated.

"Each system proposes to interpret all
the facts; each system subscribes to the principle
that this is one world." (Gordon H. Clark.)

The One and Only
Anthony J McAtee