C. H. Dodd (1884–1973)
Author of The Parables of the Kingdom
About the Author
Charles Harold Dodd, a leading British New Testament scholar, was born in Wrexham, North Wales. Awarded a B.A. degree in classics at University College, Oxford, in 1906, Dodd engaged in further studies at the University of Berlin, where he pursued a research program in ancient history and show more archaeology, and at Mansfield College, Oxford, where he prepared himself in theology. After serving as minister of the Independent (Congregational) Church at Warwick (1912-15, 1918-19), he returned to Mansfield College as Yates Lecturer in New Testament. In 1930 he moved to Manchester University to become professor of biblical criticism and exegesis. Five years later he assumed the Norris-Hulse professorship at Cambridge University, where he taught until his retirement in 1949. In the following year, he embarked on a 15-year directorship of the New English Bible translation project. In recognition of his achievements, Dodd received from Queen Elizabeth the Companionship of Honour in 1963. In his slender but weighty study, The Apostolic Preaching and Its Developments (1936), Dodd discerns within the diverse strata of the New Testament a common unifying core, namely, the kerygma (preaching) of the primitive church. This core consisted of a sequence of events---the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth---in which God's glory was declared to have been disclosed. Thus, emerging Christianity embraced this as the decisive deed of God for humanity's salvation. For Dodd this kerygma theology is the theology of the New Testament. Dodd also advanced the study of biblical eschatology by uncovering in the parables of Jesus not an apocalyptic but a realized eschatology. Here he challenged Albert Schweitzer's claim that Jesus made no room for either apocalyptic or traditional eschatological ideas in his teaching. According to Dodd's reading of the New Testament, no future cataclysmic event would inaugurate the long-awaited kingdom of God. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Works by C. H. Dodd
The Authority of the Bible: A Contribution to the Philosophy of Revelation (1960) 276 copies, 2 reviews
Morale de l'Évangile. 3 copies
La bibbia nella Chiesa 2 copies
Christ and the new humanity 2 copies
MORALE DE L'EVANGILE 1 copy
L'autorità della Bibbia 1 copy
Studies In The Fourth Gospel 1 copy
the old testament in the new 1 copy
Segundo as Escrituras 1 copy
Eschatology and History 1 copy
The Bible and its background 1 copy
As Parábolas do Reino 1 copy
Associated Works
The Company of Preachers: Wisdom on Preaching, Augustine to the Present (2002) — Contributor — 199 copies, 2 reviews
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Dodd, C. H.
- Legal name
- Dodd, Charles Harold
- Birthdate
- 1884-04-07
- Date of death
- 1973-09-21
- Gender
- male
- Education
- University College, University of Oxford (BA|1906)
Mansfield College, University of Oxford - Occupations
- Congregational Minister (ordained 1912)
theologian
university professor - Organizations
- University of Oxford
Victoria University of Manchester
University of Cambridge - Awards and honors
- Order of the Companions of Honour (1963)
Fellow, British Academy (1946)
Burkitt Medal (1945) - Relationships
- Dodd, A. H. (brother)
Dodd, P. W. (brother)
Dodd, E. E. (brother)
Davies, W. D. (student)
Heaton, Eric William (son in law) - Short biography
- 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. He was a Congregationalist minister for three years in Warwick, before going into academia. From 1915 he was Yates Lecturer in New Testament at Oxford. He became Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis at the Victoria University of Manchester in 1930. He was 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. - Nationality
- UK
- Birthplace
- Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales, UK
- Places of residence
- Wrexham, Denbighshire, Wales, UK
Berlin, Germany - Place of death
- Goring-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England, UK
- Map Location
- Wales, UK
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Reviews
A masterly survey of the grounds on which the Bible should be taken seriously, whether only as a work of fine literature, or through the inspiration of individuals and a community of faith. The author also addresses the difference between the Old and New Testaments in terms of authority - not by a dogmatic assertion, but by focusing on what was different about the way Jesus taught about a relationship with God. This book is both for those who want to assert that the Bible is true because it show more is the Bible (and challenges them in this simplistic approach by looking at where the Bible actually came from) but also for those who want to ignore the Bible because it is apparently only a book of dogma (and challenges them by asking them to take seriously two millennia of the human quest for the answer to the question of the meaning of life). The Bible is presented as authoritative not because it is the last word of truth, nor even the "Word of God", but because it is the seminal word which should inspire future generations in their quest for meaning. show less
What do we really know about Jesus? How do we know it? A foremost New Testament scholar's lucid summary.
This rare classic on preaching by one of the great liberals of the 20th century is where he set out the paradigm for the "krygma" which was adopted by so many other authors. Although the paradigm is problematic to a fault, it has been adopted as the "norm" for Gospel preaching.
Dodd's treatment is rather more liberal than moderate. This points out how the New Testestament authors used and viewd the meaning and status of the Old Testament.
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