Dodd

• Dodd's Kerygmata

  1.       The age of fulfilment has dawned

  2.       This has happened throughout the death and resurrection of jesus

  3.       Jesus was confirmed as Messiah by ascending to the right hand of God

  4.       God’s spirit has been poured out on the church

  5.       Christ will return soon

  6.       Everyone should repent, receive forgiveness, and join the new Christian movement
• Dodd's proposition


  He proposed that it not only was the crucifixion a historical event, but it was one which was to re-shape the western world, and through a knock-on effect, every other culture without exception. Thus making Christianity a uniquely historical religion
• criticisms posed to Dodd

  Five is a problem as there had been no second coming, and by the time the bible was compiled that was known.
• Dodd's responses

  Dodd says that as the second coming was only one element, and realised eschatology explained those sayings. Jesus had meant that the end times had already arrived when he had been on earth – he had never meant it would be in the future.
• Kerygmata


  the basic teaching / proclamation of Christianity.