Abstract
Abstract The dispensational scheme of biblical interpretation reflected the Baconian ideal. In the earlier nineteenth century, many American religious thinkers celebrated the tradition of Francis Bacon, which looked for inductive facts. That was also compatible with the heritage of “common sense” philosophy. Dispensationalists, such as Arthur T. Pierson, Reuben Torrey, or C. I. Scofield, editor of the Scofield Bible that became a fundamentalist norm, adopted such outlooks for interpreting the Bible. They saw the Bible as a set of “facts.” It was also “inerrant.” It just needed a “common sense” set of tools to provide an interpretive scheme that was the key to solving some puzzles. With those, any ordinary reader could trust his or her interpretations.
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