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, The Parables of the Kingdom

“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 Founder of Christianity

“No circumstance of daily life is too trivial or commonplace to serve as a window into the realm of ultimate values, and not truth too profound to find its analogue in common experience.”
― C.H. Dodd, The Founder of Christianity

“The ideal interpreter should be one who has entered into that strange first-century world, has felt its whole strangeness, has sojourned in it until he has lived himself into it, thinking and feeling as one of those to whom the Gospel first came, and who will then return into our world, and give to the truth he has discovered a body out of the stuff of our own thought.

-- The Present Task in New Testament Studies”
― Charles Harold Dodd