C. I. Scofield was the man most responsible for the popularization of dispensational premillennialism. Influenced by the dispensationalism of J. N. Darby, Scofield was a regular on the Bible conference circuit and established a correspondence course that enrolled several thousand students. His book, 'Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth', is still in print and his dispensational charts appeared in fundamentalist churches throughout the twentieth century. Scofield's crowning achievement was the publication of the Scofield Reference Bible in 1909. Trumbull's biography is the only book-length look at the life of the man who had one of the greatest impacts on twentieth-century American fundamentalism.
Few figures in the history of American Christianity have proven as influential or controversial as C.I. Scofield, the theologian and writer who developed the influential Scofield Reference Bible. This book offers a detailed and compelling account of Scofield's life and work, exploring the complex interplay between his theology and the broader currents of American religion and culture. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Few figures in the history of American Christianity have proven as influential or controversial as C.I. Scofield, the theologian and writer who developed the influential Scofield Reference Bible. This book offers a detailed and compelling account of Scofield's life and work, exploring the complex interplay between his theology and the broader currents of American religion and culture. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The Scofield Reference Bible was responsible for popularizing dispensational theology, eventually making dispensationalism the theology assumed by English-speaking Christians for much of the twentieth century.
Excerpt from The Life Story of C. I. Scofield The boy's father and mother were true Chris tians, Old-fashioned believers. His father read the Bible to him and encouraged him to read it for himself. The father was not instructed in the full range of Biblical truth, but he lived very much in the Book of Psalms, and loved David greatly. And the boy read his Bible les sons, like any other boy in a respectable Chris tian family; but he did not dream that the Bible was a book to be studied like other books, and he gave it little attention. Yet what a prepara tion he was getting, all unconsciously, in mental habits of thoroughness and of verification and of first-hand study, all of which make for scholar ship, for the producing, years later, of the Refer ence Bible for which hundreds of thousands now love and honor his name! Was the mother an influence in the life of this boy and man? She died soon after his birth died as a result of bringing him into the world. Perhaps some might think that that answers the question in the negative. But as the mother lay dying, the new-born baby boy by her side, she prayed for him, and asked God that he might be a minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. When the boy grew up he was not told this; the father, with a strict sense of honor, told the sisters that young Cyrus must not be told Of his mother's prayer lest he be unduly influenced by it, and enter upon a life - calling simply because of sentiment and from a sense of Obligation to a dying mother's wish. Only after that boy had accepted the call to the ministry and had become, indeed, an ambassador of Christ was he told of his mother's prayer. Yes, God hears and answers prayer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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