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The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2 - Contents
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    VI. Cambridge’s Dodd-No Innate Immortality in Bible

    Prof. CHARLES H. DODD, 4242) CHARLES HAROLD DODD, trained at Magdalen College, Oxford, was ordained to the Congregational ministry in 1912. After a period of pastoral ministry he was called to teach New Testament at Mansfield Colle e. He then was elected professor of Biblical criticism and exegesis at Manchester, and in 135 was elected professor of divinity at Cambridge. His major published works are nine in number, various of which are widely known and esteemed as Christian classics. of Cambridge University, in discussing the “future life,” likewise stated that it was in the “strongly Hellenized book,” The Wisdom of Solomon, that the “Platonic doctrine of the immortality of the soul” emerged among the Jews. He then comments that while the New Testament is “full of the assurance of everlasting life,” there is “no discussion of immortality as a philosophical theory”—that is, of Innate Immortality. Paul is not attempting in 1 Corinthians 15:12-58 to “prove the immortality of the soul.” 4343) C. H. Dodd, The Authority of the Bible (Harper and Row), p. 217. Professor Dodd adds that Paul teachesCFF2 763.1

    “A dead man really is dead and done for unless and until God makes him alive by an act of creative power [the resurrection, and that this miracle will take place when the New Age dawns.” 4444) Ibid., p. 218.CFF2 763.2

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