Clark Pinnock

Clark H. Pinnock (1937-2010) was a Canadian Baptist theologian who taught for many years at McMaster Divinity College in Hamilton, Ontario, and previously at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and Regent College.

Pinnock is best known for his theological pilgrimage from a strong defense of biblical inerrancy and Reformed theology in the 1960s to a much more open, Arminian-leaning theology in his later career. He became one of the most prominent advocates of "open theism," the view that the future is genuinely open and that God does not exhaustively foreknow free creaturely decisions, and contributed to the controversial 1994 volume The Openness of God. His later work also softened on inclusivism with respect to the unevangelized.