What Is Saving Faith?
by Gordon H. Clark. Published by the Trinity Foundation, 2004. Paperback, 193 pages, list price $12.95. Reviewed by Professor Alan D. Strange (condensed from the Mid-America Journal of Theology, vol. 15, 2004). The nature of saving faith is an important consideration in the current debates about justification. Given that we are justified by faith alone, one may rightly ask, what precisely is the nature of that faith? In this connection, then, the republication of Gordon Clark’s treatment of the subject is noteworthy. There are actually two works being republished under this title: Faith and Saving Faith (first published by the Trinity Foundation in 1983) and The Johannine Logos (first published by Presbyterian and Reformed in 1972). While the two works address concerns particular to each, they both treat the nature of saving faith, and they come to a unified position. Clark argues that elements have been added to the definition of faith by many Protestants that compromise its character
