Charles Harold Dodd (1884-1973)
C. H. Dodd 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. (C H Dodd Quotes)
“At its simplest, the parable is a metaphor or simile drawn from nature or common life, arresting the hearer by its vividness or strangeness, and leaving the mind in sufficient doubt to its precise application to tease the mind into active thought.”
C.H. Dodd
“Does truth prevail more if we are not on speaking terms with those whose view of truth differs from ours?”
C.H. Dodd
“No circumstance of daily life is too trivial or commonplace to serve as a window into the realm of ultimate values, and no truth is too profound to find its analogue in common experience.”
C.H. Dodd
“The absorption of the individual in the universal is only another term for its destruction.”
C.H. Dodd
“There is no real religious experience that does not express itself in charity.”
C.H. Dodd
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