Charles Harold Dodd CH FBA (7 April 1884 – 21 September 1973) was a Welsh New Testament scholar and influential Protestant theologian.
[5] 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.
After graduating in 1906 he spent a year in Berlin, where he studied under the influential Adolf von Harnack.
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.
His daughter Rachel married the Old Testament scholar Eric William Heaton in 1951.