The Life Story of C.I. Scofield

by Charles Gallaudet Trumbull, Mark Walter (Editor)

The original -- and yet the best -- biography of C.I. Scofield. This work is hard to find in any format. This work was OCR'd, edited and formatted by the current publisher. It has an accessible, active table of contents.

Genres: Biography

108 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2002

Reviews

[David Mills · Rating 4 out of 5]

Delightful Hagiography

Charles Trumbull’s book is a delight to read. It is not a critical biography. Most of its content is spent on describing the vision and process for developing the Scofield Reference Bible. There are some items about Scofield’s personal biography that are omitted. But providing a comprehensive and critical biography was not the author’s purpose. The main purpose was to explain Scofield’s commitment to the Bible and Bible study and the fruit of those commitments in the Scofield Reference Bible.

[William Sariego · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cyrus Scofield was one of the most influential Protestant theologians around the turn of the 20th Century. He is justly famous his Reference Bible which is still in print today. This little book provided interesting reading, but is more hagiography than biography. The author is certainly enamored of his subject, and DR Scofield's "warts" are passed over, while being abundantly showered with praise.

[Rick Mollard · Rating 3 out of 5]

A decent read, because it was so short it felt like a lot of life events were sped up and couldn’t get into what really happens throughout his life.

[Rick Shrader]

Biographies of great men are always a blessing and a help in placing things right in history. C.I. Scofield is a household name among Christians because of the Reference Bible bearing his name. Trumbull was a personal friend and student of Scofield’s and writes in a more positive tone than some other later writers who may have been writing for different reasons. Trumbull’s biography was first printed in 1920 by Oxford University Press, which also first published the Scofield Reference Bible. The book is an easy read taking the reader through Scofield’s unsaved years as a confederate soldier to Kansas lawyer to U.S. Attorney for the district of Kansas. His salvation testimony is moving, having been led to the Lord by one Thomas S. McPheeters, a personal friend. Scofield immediately put away the drinking from his lawyer days and was led toward Christian ministry both in pastoring and writing. He eventually became pastor of First Congregational Church in Dallas, a denomination he later left. He was called to D.L. Moody’s church in Northfield, Mass. by Moody himself and there became involved in Northfield and Niagara conferences. There he also met and was tutored by James. H. Brookes who had considerable influence on his doctrine and ministry. Trumbull published this work (1920) before Scofield’s death in 1921.

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