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Enraptured with Order
How fundamentalists strove mightily to make sense of history.
editors | posted 7/01/1997 12:00AM
Clarence Larkin believed the biblical interpreter "cannot intelligently do his work without a plan. He must have drawings and specifications." To that end, the mechanical-engineer-turned-preacher wrote and illustrated Dispensational Truth, or God's Plan and Purpose in the Ages (1919), a 180-page book that contains 90 charts.
These charts, he wrote, must be tested against the Bible itself, yet to properly interpret and understand the Bible, "The charts are indispensable." The above, according to Larkin, is "the main chart" of his book.
Diagramming Bible books and salvation history is characteristic of dispensationalism—a method of interpreting the Bible that divides history into different "dispensations" or spiritual eras. In each dispensation, God reveals a new aspect of his will, and according to C. I. Scofield, each dispensation is "a new test of the natural man, and each ends in judgment—marking his utter failure in every dispensation."
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