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| birth_date = June 18, 1996
| birth_place = [[wikipedia:Nebraska|Nebraska]]
| residency = [[wikipedia:California|California]]
| occupation = [[wikipedia:Theologian|theologian]]
| theology = [[Presbyterian]]
| affiliations = [[Heidelblog]], [[Westminster Seminary California]]
| spouse = Unknown
| children = Unknown
| website = [https://https://heidelblog.net/bio Heidelblog.net]
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'''Robert Scott Clark''' (born 1961) is an American [[Reformed tradition|Reformed]] pastor and seminary professor. He is the author of several books, including his most recent work, ''[[Recovering the Reformed Confession]]''. Clark is the founder of [[Heidelberg Reformation Association]], the parent organization of his content channels ''Heidelblog'', ''Heidelcast'', and ''Heidelmedia''.

==Biography==
Clark earned a [[wikipedia:Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] from the [[wikipedia:University of Nebraska|University of Nebraska]], [[wikipedia:Master of Divinity|Master of Divinity]] from [[Westminster Seminary California]], and D.Phil. from the [[wikipedia:University of Oxford]]. Since 1997 he has been teaching at Westminster Seminary California, where he served as academic dean from 1997 to 2001; currently he is professor of church history and historical theology. He has also taught at [[wikipedia:Wheaton College (Illinois)|Wheaton College (Illinois)]], [[Reformed Theological Seminary]] (Jackson, MS) and [[wikipedia:Concordia University, Irvine|Concordia University, Irvine]].  He is an ordained minister in the [[United Reformed Churches in North America]].<ref>[http://wscal.edu/academics/faculty-bio/r-scott-clark Clark's bio at Westminster Seminary, California]</ref> He maintains an online journal entitled the [[Heidelblog]], which was deleted for a time in 2011, but is now in regular production. Clark also hosts the [[Heidelcast]] podcast where he discusses various topics relevant to reformed theology.<ref>https://heidelblog.net/the-heidelcast/</ref> 

Clark has been a defender of the [[Marrow Controversy|Marrow Brethren]] and vocal critic of [[Douglas Wilson]].<ref>https://heidelblog.net/tag/marrow-controversy/</ref>

==Works==

===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''. Trans., Todd M. Rester. Classic Reformed Theology vol. 1. Grand Rapids: Reformation Heritage Press, 2008. (ISBN: 978-1-60178-045-4)
*Caspar Olevianus, ''An Exposition of the Apostles' Creed''. Trans. Lyle D. Bierma. Classic Reformed Theology vol. 2. Grand Rapids: Reformation Heritage Press, 2009. (ISBN: 9781601780744)
*''Covenant, Justification, and Pastoral Ministry: Essays by the Faculty of Westminster Seminary California''. ed. R. Scott Clark Phillipsburg: N.J.: P&R Pub, 2007. (ISBN: 1596380357)
*''Protestant Scholasticism: Essays in Reassessment,'' ed., [[Carl Trueman]] and R. Scott Clark. Carlisle, UK: Paternoster, 1999. (ISBN: 1597527882)
*''Always Reformed: Essays in Honor of W. Robert Godfrey''. ed., R. Scott Clark and Joel E. Kim. Escondido, CA: Westminster Seminary California, 2010. (ISBN: 9780982880500)

===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?'' [http://www.ctsfw.edu/ctq/ Concordia Theological Quarterly] 70 (2006): 269–310. 
*''Baptism and the Benefits of Christ: The Double Mode of Communion in the Covenant of Grace,'' [http://www.cpjournal.com/ The Confessional Presbyterian Journal] 2 (2006): 3–19.
*''The Catholic-Calvinist Trinitarianism of Caspar Olevian,'' [http://www.wts.edu/resources/wtj.html Westminster Theological] Journal 61 (1999): 15–39.
*''Calvin and the Lex Naturalis,'' Stulos Theological Journal 6 (1998): 1–22.

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090214113107/http://www.monergism.com/directory/link_category/MP3-Audio--Multimedia/All-Speakers-Lectures-and-Sermons/R-Scott-Clark/ Monergism.com Mp3 Library] - Audio recordings of Clark on various theological subjects.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120817100222/http://clark.wscal.edu/ Professor Clark's Home Page] - Clark's web site at Westminster Seminary California 
*[http://rscottclark.org R. Scott Clark Archives - The Heidelblog] - Clark's personal website

==References==

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[[Category:University of Nebraska–Lincoln alumni]]
[[Category:Westminster Theological Seminary alumni]]
[[Category:Alumni of the University of Oxford]]
[[Category:Wheaton College (Illinois) faculty]]
[[Category:Westminster Seminary California faculty]]
[[Category:American Calvinist and Reformed theologians]]
[[Category:Historians of Christianity]]
[[Category:American Calvinist and Reformed ministers]]
[[Category:Reformed Theological Seminary faculty]]