Charles Harold Dodd (1884–1973) was a
Welsh
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New Testament
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scholar and influential
Protestant
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theologian
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. He is known for promoting "
realized eschatology Realized eschatology is a Christian eschatological theory popularized by J.A.T. Robinson, Joachim Jeremias, Ethelbert Stauffer (1902- 1979), and
C. H. Dodd (1884–1973) that holds that the eschatological passages in the New Testament do not refe ...
", the belief that
Jesus
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' references to the
kingdom of God meant a present reality rather than a future
apocalypse. He was influenced by
Martin Heidegger
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and
Rudolf Otto.
Life
Dodd was born on 7 April 1884 in the Welsh town of
Wrexham
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,
Denbighshire
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. He was brother of the historian
A. H. Dodd. He studied
classics at
University College, Oxford
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, from 1902. After graduating in 1906 he spent a year in
Berlin
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, where he studied under the influential
Adolf von Harnack.
He studied for the ministry at Mansfield College, Oxford, and was ordained in 1912. He was a Congregational church, Congregationalist minister for three years in Warwick, before going into academia. From 1915 he was Yates Lecturer in New Testament at Oxford University, Oxford. He became Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis at the Victoria University of Manchester in 1930. He was Norris–Hulse Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge 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, from 1950.
He was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1946. He was appointed to the Order of the Companions of Honour in 1961.
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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Biography(National Library of Wales)
Preaching and Teaching in the Early Church
Chapter 1 of ''Gospel and Law: The Relation of Faith and Ethics in Early Christianity'' (1951)
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1884 births
1973 deaths
20th-century Christian biblical scholars
Norris–Hulse Professors of Divinity
Academics of the Victoria University of Manchester
Alumni of University College, Oxford
British theologians
Members of the Order of the Companions of Honour
New Testament scholars
People from Wrexham
Welsh biblical scholars