Thomas Jay Oord has a nice post up about him which includes the following:
3. Clark was humble. Although he surely had convictions about how we should think theologically, he never presented himself as having all things figured out. When he and I disagreed about some issues, he was always ready to hear me out and learn from me. This made me more open to learning from him.
4. Clark was creative up to the end. His scholarly and devotional output was amazing! Although Alzheimer’s disease eventually took over his life, he participated in several projects with me in his final years. In fact, two of his last essays are printed in books I edited: “Evangelical Theology after Darwin,” in Creation Made Free, and “A Cosmology of Love,” in Love Among Us.
Read it all.
Update: There is a nice picture of him here.
A wonderful, godly, God-loving man. Rest in peace, Clark.
I never knew Clark Pinnock personally. He was pointed out to me at a conference once. He was quite influential to me during the time that I first began studying theology, when I was an undergraduate. No one could possibly agree with everything that Pinnock wrote, if for no other reason than that he changed his mind more than once. However, what impressed me about Pinnock more than some of his views was that he was the epitome of what an orthodox theologian should be. He did not separate head and heart. He embraced a generous orthodoxy that sought out truth wherever it led; he was not afraid of having his views challenged, or of changing his mind. He did not equate evangelicalism with an ideology that always had to be certain that it had the correct answers, and everyone else was wrong.