B.A., University of Nebraska; M.Div., Westminster Seminary California; D.Phil., Oxford University.

Dr. Clark has taught at Westminster Seminary California since 1997, during which time he also served as Academic Dean (1997-2000). He has taught at Wheaton College, Reformed Theological Seminary, Jackson, and Concordia University, Irvine. He has been a minister in the Reformed Church in the United States and is presently a minister in the United Reformed Churches. He has served congregations in Missouri and California. He is Associate Pastor of the Oceanside United Reformed Church, where he preaches and teaches regularly.

Among his publications are Caspar Olevian and the Substance of the Covenant: The Double Benefit of Christ; Protestant Scholasticism: Essays in Reassessment (editor and contributor), The Foolishness of the Gospel: Covenant and Justification (editor and contributor), The Compromised Church: The Present Evangelical Crisis (contributor), The Pattern of Sound Doctrine: Systematic Theology at the Westminster Seminaries: Essays in Honor of Robert B. Strimple (contributor), The Westminster Confession into the 21st Century: Essays in Remembrance of the 350th Anniversary of the Publication of the Westminster Confession of Faith (contributor), The Faith Once Delivered: Celebrating the Legacy of Reformed Systematic Theology and the Westminster Assembly. Essays in Honor of Dr. Wayne R. Spear (contributor), The New Dictionary of Christian Apologetics (contributor), and Covenant, Justification, and Pastoral Ministry: Essays by the Faculty of Westminster Seminary California (editor and contributor). He has also written for several academic journals, popular magazines and websites.

His outside interests include old-time radio, reading, and collecting books. Among his favorite authors are P.G. Wodehouse, C. S. Lewis, Dorothy Sayers, John Calvin, Johannes Wollebius, Martin Luther, and Gerhardus Vos. He and his wife Barbara have two children and live in Escondido.

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Resident Faculty
  Steven M. Baugh
  R. Scott Clark
  Bryan D. Estelle
  W. Robert Godfrey
  Michael S. Horton
  Dennis E. Johnson
  Hywel R. Jones
  Joel E. Kim
  Julius J. Kim
  Elizabeth E. Park
  David M. VanDrunen
  Joshua J. Van Ee

Professors Emeriti
  Derke P. Bergsma
  Robert B. Strimple

Scholar in Residence
  Peter R. Jones

Visiting Faculty
  Iain M. Duguid
  Darryl G. Hart
  Samuel D. S. Ling
  Richard Lints
  Alfred J. Poirier
  Kimball Riddlebarger
  Philip G. Ryken
  R. C. Sproul