Moule, C.F.D. 1908–2007
Moule, C.F.D. 1908–2007
(Charles Francis Digby Moule)
OBITUARY NOTICE—
See index for CA sketch: Born December 3, 1908, in Hangzhou, China; died September 30, 2007. Priest, theologian, educator, administrator, and author. Moule was ordained a minister of the Church of England in 1933. He spent most of his professional life in Cambridge, England, first as a parish curate, then as a lifelong fellow of Clare College, as Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity at Cambridge University, and as a college administrator, ending his career at Ridley Hall after 1976. For twenty years concurrent with his teaching responsibilities, Moule also served the church as canon theologian of Leicester Cathedral. Most of Moule's scholarly activity was devoted to studies of the New Testament, and he wrote or edited at least fifty books on that and other religious topics. These include An Idiom Book of New Testament Greek(1953),The Birth of the New Testament(1962), which has since been widely translated,The Origin of Christology(1977), which was awarded the Collins Theological Book Prize,Essays in New Testament Interpretation(1982), and Forgiveness and Reconciliation: And Other New Testament Themes(1998).
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PERIODICALS
Times(London, England), October 5, 2007, p. 67.