Rightly Dividing the Word: Fully Illustrated with 55 Enhanced Charts and Graphics

by Clarence Larkin

Publisher:

Whitaker House

, 2025

Overview

Study to show yourself approved to God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. —2 Timothy 2:15 (kjver)
 
As a follow-up to his highly successful and much sought after work Dispensational Truth, Baptist minister Clarence Larkin wrote Rightly Dividing the Word to explain how the fundamental doctrines of the Christian faith should be “rightly divided” in a series of contrasts, such as law and grace, faith and works, sin and salvation.

Larkin’s aim was not to express his opinion or the thoughts of other writers, but to present biblical concepts “based solely on the Scriptures,” with chapter and verse given for every statement.
The Bible, Larkin said, “is not a heterogeneous jumble of ancient history, myths, legends, religious speculations, and apocalyptic literature. There is a progress of revelation and
doctrine in it. You cannot understand Leviticus without Hebrews, or Daniel without Revelation. The judges knew more than the patriarchs, the prophets than the judges, and the apostles more than the prophets.”
While the Bible is written for everyone, he maintained, it is addressed to three classes of people: Jews, gentiles, and the church.

Now including updated layout and illustrations for easier review, this work is designed to fulfill the author’s original intent, “to confirm in the Christian faith those who are wavering and to instruct those who have not been clearly taught the great cardinal doctrines.”

Product Details

• Title: Rightly Dividing the Word: Fully Illustrated with 55 Enhanced Charts and Graphics
• Author: Clarence Larkin
• Publisher: Whitaker House
• Print Publication Date: 2025
• Logos Release Date: 2024
• Pages: 288
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Ebook
• ISBNs: 9798887693798, 9798887693781
• Resource ID: LLS:9798887693798
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2025-05-20T06:54:19Z

About Clarence Larkin

Rev. Clarence Larkin (1850–1924) was an American Baptist pastor, Bible teacher, and author whose writings on dispensationalism had a great impact on conservative Protestant visual culture in the 20th century. His intricate and influential charts provided readers with a visual strategy for mapping God's action in history and interpreting complex biblical prophecies. Born in Chester, Pennsylvania, Larkin experienced conversion at the age of nineteen. He received a college degree in mechanical engineering and had worked as a draftsman, a teacher of the blind, and a manufacturer, but felt called to ministry. After World War I broke out, God laid it on his heart to prepare a work on dispensational truth. Larkin spent three years of his life designing and drawing the charts and preparing the text. It was received to favorable acclaim both in the United States and abroad. During the last five years of his life, the demand for Larkin’s books made it necessary for him to give up his pastorate and devote his full time to writing. His other works include Rightly Dividing the Word; The Book of Daniel; Spirit World; Second Coming of Christ; and A Medicine Chest for Christian Practitioners, a Handbook on Evangelism.