File Submitter: Peter Pellerin
File Submitted: 16 Feb 2013
File Category: Books
Author: Clarence Larkin
Rightly Dividing the Word, by Clarence Larkin, is a concise overview of the fundamental doctrines of the Bible according to a premillennial, dispensational perspective.
Larkin began his work on Rightly Dividing after completing Dispensational Truth, in an attempt to make an introductory book on the subject.
The Author started to prepare an "A B C" book to introduce his larger Work on "DISPENSATIONAL TRUTH," but after writing and condensing several times he felt led to abandon that idea and to prepare a book on "Rightly Dividing the Word," in which the "Fundamental Doctrines" should be "Rightly Divided" in a series of contrasts. The "Fundamental Doctrines" of the Christian Faith are clearly outlined in numerous books on Theology, but they are not available to the average reader and were mainly written for students. The Author has made it the work of his ministry to preach the "Fundamental Doctrines." To this end he has aimed to express them in the simplest and clearest manner possible. This book contains the cream and meat of his sermons for over thirty-five years, condensed and arranged in a form that will grip and interest the reader, because of the manner of their presentation. The Charts are clear and simple and add much to the value of the book, and will be suggestive to Preachers and Bible Teachers in presenting the "Fundamentals."
-From the Foreword.
About the Author:American Baptist pastor, Bible teacher, and writer, Clarence Larkin was born October 28, 1850, in Chester, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. He was converted to Christ at the age of 19 and then felt called to the Gospel ministry, but the doors of opportunity for study and ministry did not open immediately. He then got a job in a bank.
When he was 21 years old, he left the bank and went to college, graduating as a mechanical engineer. He continued as a professional draftsman for a while, then he became a teacher of the blind. This last endeavor cultivated his descriptive faculties -- something God would later use in him to produce a monumental work on dispensational theology. Later, failing health compelled him to give up his teaching career. After a prolonged rest, he became a manufacturer.
But he was not happy. He felt that God wanted him in the Gospel ministry. When he was converted he had become a member of the Episcopal Church, but in 1882, at the age of 32, he became a Baptist and was ordained as a Baptist minister two years later. He went directly from business into the ministry.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTERS
PAGE
1. Rightly Dividing The Word
2. Ages And Dispensations
3. Jew And Gentile
4. Church And Kingdom
5. The Four Gospels
6. The Two Advents
7. The Spirit World
8. Satan
9. The Satanic Trinity
10. "the Mystery Of Godliness" and "the Mystery Of Iniquity"
11. Resurrection Of Jesus
12. The Resurrections
13. The Judgments
14. The Two Adams
15. Atonement And Redemption
16. Sin And Salvation
17. Law And Grace
18. Faith And Works
19. The Two Natures
20. Standing And State
21. Regeneration And Baptism
22. Election And Free-will
23. The Reciprocal Indwelling Of Christ And The Believer
24. The Threefold Work Of Christ
25. Christ Our Passover
26. Heaven And Hell
27. Judaism And Christianity
28. The Circles Of The Christian Life
29. Palace Beautiful
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