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The year 2009 marked the 100th anniversary of the publication of the Scofield Reference Bible (1909). It is hard to believe in our era of study Bibles for most every demographic group that the Scofield Bible was the first of its kind. The Scofield Reference Bible was uniquely responsible for popularizing dispensational theology, eventually making dispensationalism the theology assumed by everyday English-speaking Christians for much of the twentieth century.
This book, written by American Todd Mangum and Irish scholar Mark Sweetnam, explores the origins and impact of the Scofield Reference Bible on both sides of the Atlantic. Readable and fair, it provides insight into the approach, intentions and theology of the Scofield Bible, valuable to both fans and critics of the Scofield Bible. It also provides rare insight into the life story of C. I. Scofield himself, which has become a subject of interest and controversy in recent years.
The Scofield Bible Its History and Impact on the Evangelical Church edition by Mark S Sweetnam R Todd Mangum Religion Spirituality eBooks
Last year marked the 100th anniversary of the publication of the Scofield Reference Bible. Despite Scofield's tremendous impact on 20th century Christianity, the anniversary seemed to pass with little fanfare. The Scofield Bible: Its History and Impact on the Evangelical Church, by R. Todd Mangum and Mark S. Sweetnam is one of the few acknowledgements I have noticed. The book is broad in its scope, covering everything from the life of C.I. Scofield himself to the theology and historical impact of his reference Bible. It distinguishes itself from the best-known predecessors in successfully attempting a fair-minded assessment--free from the bias of theological bent or personal fondness. As such, it is neither a hagiography nor a hack-job. Scofield's personal foibles are presented as well as his virtues. The commendable innovations made by his reference Bible are mentioned as well as the regrettable deficiencies. In all, the authors achieved the scholarly balance they were striving to attain.Over the past several years, due in part to the theological excesses of those in some well-publicized corners of dispensationalism, the Scofield Reference Bible has come under fire. This book will remind the reader of Scofield's truly groundbreaking achievement. Readers who look to this book to either justify their theological presuppositions or condemn those of others will be disappointed. It is a study on the impact of the Scofield Reference Bible--it is not a treatise on dispensationalism. While few readers will agree with all of his notes and some will disagree with his dispensational framework or his Calvinist perspective, all can acknowledge and appreciate his impact on modern evangelicalism.
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The Scofield Bible Its History and Impact on the Evangelical Church edition by Mark S Sweetnam R Todd Mangum Religion Spirituality eBooks Reviews
This book is on an important topic, the nature of C I Scofield's study Bible and its role in popularizing dispensational theology. Since dispensationalism, in various forms, has become the unquestioned way millions of lay people read Holy Scripture in the English-speaking evangelical world, the topic has a kind of urgency. Interesting light is shed on Scofield's character, both before and after his conversion, and links and contrasts between J N Darby and Scofield are laid out. But when the impact of either dispensationalism or Scofield on American and British evangelicalism is assessed, the study becomes both too narrow and too vague.
The two authors split the chores here, Mangum taking on the more theological discussions and Sweetman dealing especially with historical roots and later impact. This breakdown puts the matter too simply since both deal with roots and theology, Sweetman focusing more on the British scene and Mangum on the American. Of the two, Mangum is far more incisive and atuned to broader issues. Sweetman, by contrast, seems addicted to pedantic and generally fruitless qualifications about how influence can (or can't) be measured.
Both authors point out how Scofield helped ordinary lay people "get into the Word" and help show how dispensationalism, even in Scofield's restrained, irenic form, gives a reasonably digestible way of bringing both testaments into some kind of comprehensible relationship to each other. Not so clearly presented is that Scofield's futuristic eschatology (which avoids the sensationalism of some of Scofield's successors) taps into a huge appetite (created for some by Scofield's Bible) for apocalyptic disclosures of the meaning of current events. Readers are assured, for instance, when they read Ezekiel 39, that Gog and Magog refer to Russia and its role in the final battle at Armageddon. By contrast, the fine scholarly work of Richard Bauckham, David Aune, and others on the Book of Revelation and other matters related to apocalyptic literature must be dreadfully disappointing and even boring to those who want to know if (or should I say, how) the European Union or the Roman Catholic Church is related to End-Time prophecies.
Perhaps the biggest omission in this book is a simple statement that dispensationalism in whatever form, like any other "solutions" to the questions of how the testaments are related to each other and how Israel and the Church are connected, is in the end merely a proposal, a proposal which awaits vindication not only by theologians and biblical scholars but by the consensual response of the whole church. Put this way, I'm sticking my own theological two cents in, of course, because the milieux in which dispensationalism has tended to thrive are not looking for consensus. Given the belief that the visible church is overwhelmingly apostate, the vindication dispensationalists are looking for is in the rapture, millennium, final battle, and last judgment. In the meantime, Scofield and his popularizers (Hal Lindsey, Tim LaHaye, and others) will continue to find new audiences.
I skipped first couple chapters about the life of scofield but the rest of the book on the scofield reference bible was very good my main problem was that reading this book caused my kindle to restart 10-15 Times I don't know why and no other book has done that
Absolutely the best treatment I have found of the genesis of Scofield theology and the effects of the Scofield Reference Bible on Western Christianity.
T thought this was a study Bible not a biography
Guessing wrong, should have paid closer attention when Reading the sample
It was a good cretic and history of the Scofield Bible.
This is a very useful study, although readers should note that it is written from a very conservative evangelical standpoint
It reveals how the development of Christianity spread so dramatically during the early 1900s.
Last year marked the 100th anniversary of the publication of the Scofield Reference Bible. Despite Scofield's tremendous impact on 20th century Christianity, the anniversary seemed to pass with little fanfare. The Scofield Bible Its History and Impact on the Evangelical Church, by R. Todd Mangum and Mark S. Sweetnam is one of the few acknowledgements I have noticed. The book is broad in its scope, covering everything from the life of C.I. Scofield himself to the theology and historical impact of his reference Bible. It distinguishes itself from the best-known predecessors in successfully attempting a fair-minded assessment--free from the bias of theological bent or personal fondness. As such, it is neither a hagiography nor a hack-job. Scofield's personal foibles are presented as well as his virtues. The commendable innovations made by his reference Bible are mentioned as well as the regrettable deficiencies. In all, the authors achieved the scholarly balance they were striving to attain.
Over the past several years, due in part to the theological excesses of those in some well-publicized corners of dispensationalism, the Scofield Reference Bible has come under fire. This book will remind the reader of Scofield's truly groundbreaking achievement. Readers who look to this book to either justify their theological presuppositions or condemn those of others will be disappointed. It is a study on the impact of the Scofield Reference Bible--it is not a treatise on dispensationalism. While few readers will agree with all of his notes and some will disagree with his dispensational framework or his Calvinist perspective, all can acknowledge and appreciate his impact on modern evangelicalism.
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