C. H. Dodd Explained

Honorific Prefix:	The Reverend
C. H. Dodd
Birth Name:	Charles Harold Dodd
Birth Date:	7 April 1884
Birth Place:	Wrexham, Wales
Death Place:	Goring-on-Thames, England
Nationality:	Welsh
Module:	Child: yes Religion: Christianity (Congregationalist) Ordained: 1912
Module2:	Child: yes Discipline: Biblical studies Sub Discipline: New Testament studies Doctoral Students: W. D. Davies Notable Ideas: Realized eschatology

Charles Harold Dodd (7 April 1884 – 21 September 1973) was a Welsh New Testament scholar and influential Protestant theologian. 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, 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. 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 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.^[1]

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.

Works

Books

• Book: Dodd . Charles H. . The Meaning of Paul for Today . London . Allen and Unwin . 1920 . 263558031 . none.
• Book: Dodd . Charles H. . 3 . The Gospel in the New Testament . London . The National Sunday School Union . n.d. . none.
• Book: Dodd . Charles H. . 3 . The Authority of the Bible . Library of constructive theology . London . HarperCollins . 1929 . 559048103 . none.
• Book: Dodd . Charles H. . 3 . The Bible and Its Background . London . George Allen & Unwin . 1931 . 931312025 . none.
• Book: Dodd . Charles H. . 3 . Epistle of Paul to the Romans . Moffatt New Testament commentary . New York . Harper & Row . 1932 . 2685372 . none.
• Book: Dodd . Charles H. . 3 . The Framework of the Gospel Narrative . Edinburgh . T & T Clark . 1932 . 643640621 . none.
• Book: Dodd . Charles H. . 3 . There and Back Again. Tales, etc. . London . Hodder & Stoughton . 1932 . 559049636 . none.
• Book: Dodd . Charles H. . 3 . The Mind of Paul: A Psychological Approach . Manchester . John Rylands Library . 1933 . 1027034524 . none.
• Book: Dodd . Charles H. . 3 . The Bible and the Greeks . London . Hodder & Stoughton . 1935 . 362655 . none.
• Book: Dodd . Charles H. . 3 . The Parables of the Kingdom . London . Nisbet . 1935 . 9780006251941 . 815611100 . none.
• Book: Dodd . Charles H. . 3 . The Apostolic Preaching and Its Developments: Three Lectures with an Eschatology and History: three lectures with an appendix on eschatology and history . New York . Harper . 1935 . 301542028 . none. ^[2]
• Book: Dodd . Charles H. . 3 . The First Epistle of John and the Fourth Gospel . Manchester . Manchester University Press . 1937 . 15165498 . none.
• Book: Dodd . Charles H. . 3 . History and the Gospel . New York . Charles Scribner's Sons . 1938 . 865693 . none.
• Book: Dodd . Charles H. . 3 . How to Read the Gospels . London . Press & Publications Board of the Church Assembly . 1941 . 611543091 . none.
• Book: Dodd . Charles H. . 3 . The Bible Today . Cambridge . Cambridge University Press . 1946 . 474984013 . none. ^[3]
• Book: Dodd . Charles H. . 3 . The Johannine Epistles . Moffatt New Testament commentary . London . Hodder and Stoughton . 1946 . 1068159111 . none.
• Book: Dodd . Charles H. . 3 . About the Gospels . Cambridge . Cambridge University Press . 1950 . 2928350 . none.
• Book: Dodd . Charles H. . 3 . The Coming of Christ: Four Broadcast Addresses for the Season of Advent . Cambridge . Cambridge University Press . 1951 . 65014900 . none.
• Book: Dodd . Charles H. . 3 . Gospel and Law: The Relation of Faith and Ethics in Early Christianity . Bampton Lectures at Columbia University . 3 . New York . Columbia University Press . 1951 . 383749 . none.
• Book: Dodd . Charles H. . 3 . According to the Scriptures: The Substructure of New Testament Theology . London . Nisbet . 1952 . 382427 . none.
• Book: Dodd . Charles H. . 3 . Christianity and the Reconciliation of the Nations . Burge memorial lecture, 1951 . London . SCM Press . 1952 . 3579446 . none.
• Book: Dodd . Charles H. . 3 . Bratsiotis . Panagiotis I. . Bultmann . Rudolf . Rudolf Bultmann . Clavier . Henri . Man in God's Design According to the New Testament . General Meeting of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas, Bern, 1952 . Newcastle upon Tyne . Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas . 1953 . 2057337 . none.
• Book: Dodd . Charles H. . 3 . The Old Testament in the New . Ethel M. Wood Lecture delivered before the University of London on 4 March 1952 . London . The Athlone Press . 1952 . none.
• Book: Dodd . Charles H. . 3 . The Interpretation of the Fourth Gospel . registration . Cambridge . Cambridge University Press . 1953 . 9780521095174 . 383172 . none.
• Book: Dodd . Charles H. . 3 . New Testament Studies . Manchester . Manchester University Press . 1953 . 4644418 . none.
• Book: Dodd . Charles H. . 3 . Benefits of His Passion . New York . Abingdon Press . 1956 . 1375926 . none.
• Book: Dodd . Charles H. . 3 . The Leader: A Vivid Portrayal of the Last Years of the Life of Jesus . London . Independent Press . 1958 . 810737417 . none. - fiction
• Book: Dodd . Charles H. . 3 . A New Testament Triptych: On Christ's Coming, His Gospel, His Passion . Cincinnati, OH . Forward Movement Publications . 1965 . 4596408 . none. - called Triptych on spine
• Book: Dodd . Charles H. . 3 . Historical Tradition in the Fourth Gospel . Cambridge . Cambridge University Press . 1963 . 9780521291231 . 383174 . registration . none.
• Book: Dodd . Charles H. . 3 . More New Testament Studies . Manchester . Manchester University Press . 1968 . 9780719003332 . 468418 . none.
• Book: Dodd . Charles H. . 3 . The Founder of Christianity . registration . London, ON . Macmillan . 1970 . 9780020846406 . 150285484 . none. ^[4]

Journal articles

• Dodd . Charles H. . 3 . The Framework of the Gospel Narrative . . 43 . 1932 . 9 . 396–400 . 10.1177/001452463204300903 . 171035798 . none.
• Dodd . Charles H. . 3 . A New Gospel . . 20 . 1 . January 1936 . 56–92 . 10.7227/BJRL.20.1.3 . none.
• Dodd . Charles H. . 3 . The First Epistle of John and the Fourth Gospel . Bulletin of the John Rylands Library . 21 . 1 . 1937 . 129–156 . 10.7227/BJRL.21.1.5 . none.
• Dodd . Charles H. . 3 . The Gospel as History: A Reconsideration . Bulletin of the John Rylands Library . 22 . 1 . 1938 . 122–143 . 10.7227/BJRL.22.1.5 . none.
• Dodd . Charles H. . 3 . The Dialogue Form in the Gospels . Bulletin of the John Rylands Library . 37 . 1 . September 1954 . 54–67 . 10.7227/BJRL.37.1.4 . none.

References

Bibliography

• Burley. Mikel. Mikel Burley. 2017. Dislocating the Eschaton? Appraising Realized Eschatology. Sophia. 56. 3. 435–452. 10.1007/s11841-016-0534-0. free. 1873-930X.
• Caird. George B.. G. B. Caird. 1974. Charles Harold Dodd, 1884–1973. Proceedings of the British Academy. 60. 497–510. 978-0-19-725958-0. 24 October 2021.
• Book: Dillistone , F. W. . Frederick Dillistone. 1977. C. H. Dodd: Interpreter of the New Testament.
• Book: Dodd , C. H. . 1965. According to the Scriptures. Fontana Books.
• Book: Painter , John . John Painter (theologian). 2013. The Fourth Gospel and the Founder of Christianity: The Place of Historical Tradition in the Work of C. H. Dodd. Thatcher. Tom. Williams. Catrin H.. Engaging with C. H. Dodd on the Gospel of John: Sixty Years of Tradition and Interpretation. Cambridge, England. Cambridge University Press. 257–284. 10.1017/CBO9781139565165.017. 978-1-107-03566-9.
• Wiens. Adelia Grace Neufeld. 1984. The "Law of Christ" as a Pauline Label for Christian Ethical Responsibility: A Reconsideration of the Arguments of C. H. Dodd and W. D. Davies. MA. Winnipeg, Manitoba. University of Manitoba. 1993/24257. free.

Further reading

• Book: Court , John M. . 2012. A Generation of New Testament Scholarship: British Scholars of the 1920s and 1930s. Blandford Forum, England. Deo Publishing. 10.1163/9789004397545. 978-1-905679-16-4.
• Jones. Iwan Rhys. 2008. C. H. Dodd and the Welsh Bible: A Fading Influence. The Expository Times. 119. 8. 380–384. 10.1177/0014524608091189. 170783524.

External links

• • Biography (National Library of Wales)
• Radical Faith
• Preaching and Teaching in the Early Church Chapter 1 of Gospel and Law: The Relation of Faith and Ethics in Early Christianity (1951)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Page 4143 | Supplement 42370, 2 June 1961 | London Gazette | the Gazette.
2. Web site: The Apostolic Preaching and Its Developments: Three Lectures with an Eschatology and History: three lectures with an appendix on eschatology and history . https://web.archive.org/web/20060911081013/http://www.religion-online.org/showbook.asp?title=539 . dead . 11 September 2006 . 1 May 2019 . none.
3. Web site: The Bible Today . https://web.archive.org/web/20060912044029/http://www.religion-online.org/showbook.asp?title=689 . dead . 12 September 2006 . 1 May 2019 . none.
4. Web site: The Founder of Christianity . https://web.archive.org/web/20060911142546/http://www.religion-online.org/showbook.asp?title=2241 . dead . 11 September 2006 . 1 May 2019 . none.