C. I. Scofield

Cyrus Ingerson Scofield ( born August 19, 1843 in Lenawee County, Michigan, † July 24, 1921 in Douglaston, Long Iceland, New York City ) was an American jurist and theologian.

Life

Scofield studied in St. Louis ( Missouri) law and moved to Topeka (Kansas), where he was in 1869 admitted in court later. In the years 1871 and 1872, he was a deputy of the Republicans in the House of Representatives from Kansas. He was district attorney for Kansas. But while his legal career, he began to drink and accumulated considerable debt to. He was then replaced as a prosecutor. In 1879 he received a short prison sentence for forgery.

While he was in prison, Scofield experienced a conversion. In 1883 he was ordained in Dallas (Texas ) to the pastor of a Congregational church whose membership increased from 14 in the following years to over 500. In 1895 he went as pastor to East Northfield (Massachusetts ), where he also took over the management of the Northfield Bible Training School. In 1903, he returned to Dallas.

In the next few years, Scofield devoted mainly the creation of the eponymous Scofield Bible, which appeared in 1909 and for which he is still known today. The observations of this study Bible teach on John Nelson Darby declining, further developed by Scofield dispensationalism, who won through this edition of the Bible great influence among the evangelical Christians of the United States.