The Life Story of C. I. Scofield
Overview
Charles Gallaudet Trumbull’s The Life Story of C. I. Scofield explores the life of one of the most famous early American dispensationalists. In his engaging biography of politician, scholar, and preacher C. I. Scofield, Trumbull tells the story from the beginning of Scofield’s youth through his varied life as a minister and theologian.
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Key Features
- Illustrates the life of C. I. Scofield
- Enhances understanding of Scofield’s works
- Provides a full chronology of events in Scofield’s life
Contents
- How The Training Began
- Naming Ingalls for the Senate
- Won to Christ
- Daring to Be a Pastor
- Really Studying the Bible
- Victory and Missions
- The Reference Bible Begun
- Drudgery and Genius
- The Debt to Scholarship
- Satan’s Attacks Defeated
- As His Friends Know Him
Top Highlights
“The new act of faith demanded the presentation (or yielding) of the body, demanded not only the cessation of conscious resistance to Christ, but also the acceptance of the Christ life plan as one of sacrifice. A life no longer to serve self, but Christ. The thing demanded was an act as definite as the act of faith in which the new life began.” (Pages 67–68)
“It was a Bible conversion. From a worn pocket Testament McPheeters read to me the great Gospel passages, the great deliverance passages, John 3:16; 6:47; 10:28; Acts 13:38, 39, and the like. And when I asked, like the Philippian jailer of old, ‘What must I do to be saved?’ he just read them again, and we knelt, and I received Jesus Christ as my Saviour. And—oh! Trumbull, put it into the story, put it big and plain: instantly the chains were broken never to be forged again—the passion for drink was taken away. Put it ‘Instantly,’ dear Trumbull. Make it plain. Don’t say: ‘He strove with his drink-sin and came off victor.’ He did nothing of the kind. Divine power did it, wholly of grace. To Christ be all the glory.” (Page 31)
“What does God ‘foreknow’? But the Bible gives us no light on this. Therefore the only safe answer is, ‘I don’t know.’ We must leave what constitutes God’s foreknowledge to Him, for He has not told us.” (Page 83)
“simple faith in the name of Jesus, against every fresh attack that he makes.” (Page 112)
“My method of work, you see,’ says Dr. Scofield in an apologetic way, ‘is not what would be called rapid; it cannot be made rapid.’ Come to think of it, just what workers in this world who have put their generations under heavy debt for their life-work, whether in the field of science, or invention, or literature, or art, have been rapid workers! The very idea of rapidity seems to exclude permanent, time-defying results. God is not in a hurry; why should we be?” (Page 59)
Praise for the Print Edition
Here is a book which all leaders of Christian thought will do well to read. It is interesting alone as a biographical sketch, but its pre-eminent interest and value is the light it throws upon the tremendous influence of Dr. Scofield upon Christian thought throughout the English speaking world. The name ‘Scofield’ will be loved and honored long after he has gone to be with the Lord.
—Moody Monthly
Product Details
- Title: The Life Story of C. I. Scofield
- Author: Charles Gallaudet Trumbull
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication Date: 1920
- Pages: 138