Cyrus I. Scofield
Cyrus Ingerson Scofield (born August 19, 1843 in Lenawee County , Michigan , † July 24, 1921 in Douglaston on Long Island , New York City ) was an American lawyer and theologian .
Life
Scofield studied at St. Louis ( Missouri ) Jura and later moved to Topeka in Kansas , where he was admitted in court 1869th In 1871 and 1872 he was employed as a deputy of the Republican the Kansas House of Representatives on. He became a district attorney for Kansas. During his legal career, however, he began to drink and accumulated considerable debts. He was then replaced as a prosecutor. In 1879 he received a brief jail sentence for forgery.
While he was in prison, Scofield experienced a conversion . In 1883 he was in Dallas ( Texas ) to the pastor of a Congregational ordained community, whose membership increased in the years from 14 to about 500th In 1895 he went to East Northfield ( Massachusetts ) as a pastor , where he also took over the direction of the Northfield Bible Training School . In 1903 he returned to Dallas.
In the next few years Scofield devoted himself mainly to the creation of the Scofield Bible named after him , which appeared in 1909 and for which he is still known today. The notes in this study Bible teach the dispensationalism , which goes back to John Nelson Darby and was further developed by Scofield , which gained great influence among evangelical Christians in the USA through this edition of the Bible .
Web links
- Literature by and about Cyrus I. Scofield in the catalog of the German National Library
- Cyrus Scofield letters , on the portal on the history of Texas on texashistory.unt.edu (English)
- Rightly Dividing The Word of Truth on biblebelievers.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ History of the United States Attorney District of Kansas at usdoj.gov , accessed June 8, 2008
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Scofield, Cyrus I. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Scofield, Cyrus Ingerson (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American lawyer and theologian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 19, 1843 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lenawee County , Michigan , United States |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 24, 1921 |
| Place of death | Douglaston , New York City , New York , United States |