The Reverend

C. H. Dodd

CH FBA
Born
Charles Harold Dodd

(1884-04-07)7 April 1884
Wrexham, Wales
Died21 September 1973(1973-09-21) (aged 89)
Goring-on-Thames, England
NationalityWelsh
Ecclesiastical career
ReligionChristianity (Congregationalist)
Ordained1912
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DisciplineBiblical studies
Sub-disciplineNew Testament studies
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Doctoral studentsW. D. Davies[3]
Notable ideasRealized eschatology[4]
Influenced

Charles Harold Dodd CH FBA (1884–1973) was a Welsh New Testament scholar and influential Protestant theologian.[5] He is known for promoting "realized eschatology", the belief that Jesus' references to the kingdom of God meant a present reality rather than a future apocalypse. He was influenced by Martin Heidegger and Rudolf Otto.

Life

Dodd was born on 7 April 1884 in the Welsh town of Wrexham,[6] Denbighshire. He was the elder brother of the historian A. H. Dodd, the classicist P. W. Dodd and the teacher E. E. Dodd. He studied classics at University College, Oxford, from 1902. After graduating in 1906 he spent a year in Berlin, where he studied under the influential Adolf von Harnack.

He studied for the ministry at Mansfield College, Oxford, and was ordained in 1912.[7] He was a Congregationalist minister for three years in Warwick, before going into academia.[8] From 1915[citation needed] he was Yates Lecturer in New Testament at Oxford.[8] He became Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis at the Victoria University of Manchester in 1930.[9] He was Norris–Hulse Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge[2] from 1935, becoming emeritus in 1949. His students from Cambridge include David Daube and W. D. Davies. The three together, each through his own work, ushered in changes in New Testament studies that led to the New Perspective on Paul and the scholarship of Davies's student, E. P. Sanders.

He directed the work of the New English Bible translators,[10] from 1950.

He was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1946.[11] He was appointed to the Order of the Companions of Honour in 1961.[12]

Dodd died on 21 September 1973 in Goring-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England. His daughter Rachel married the Old Testament scholar Eric William Heaton in 1951.

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Footnotes

  1. ^ Painter 2013, p. 259.
  2. ^ a b Caird 1974, p. 504.
  3. ^ Wiens 1984, p. 43.
  4. ^ Burley 2017, p. 436.
  5. ^ Dillistone 1977.
  6. ^ Caird 1974, p. 497.
  7. ^ Caird 1974, pp. 498–499.
  8. ^ a b Caird 1974, p. 499.
  9. ^ Dodd 1965, p. 3.
  10. ^ Caird 1974, p. 506.
  11. ^ Caird 1974, p. 508.
  12. ^ "Page 4143 | Supplement 42370, 2 June 1961 | London Gazette | the Gazette".
  13. ^ "The Apostolic Preaching and Its Developments: Three Lectures with an Eschatology and History: three lectures with an appendix on eschatology and history". Archived from the original on 11 September 2006. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
  14. ^ "The Bible Today". Archived from the original on 12 September 2006. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
  15. ^ "The Founder of Christianity". Archived from the original on 11 September 2006. Retrieved 1 May 2019.

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Academic offices Preceded byArthur Peake Rylands Professor of BiblicalCriticism and Exegesis 1930–1935 Succeeded byThomas Walter Manson Preceded byFrancis Crawford Burkitt Norris–Hulse Professor of Divinity 1935–1949 Succeeded byHerbert Henry Farmer Awards Preceded byH. Wheeler Robinson Burkitt Medal 1945 Succeeded byTheodore Henry Robinson
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