The Reverend Professor C. F. D. Moule, known to all as 'Charlie', was from 1951 to 1976 the Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity, the oldest Chair in Cambridge University, once held by Erasmus.
The Reverend Professor C. F. D. Moule, known to all as 'Charlie', was from 1951 to 1976 the Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity, the oldest Chair in Cambridge University, once held by Erasmus.
He was continuously a Fellow of Clare College from 1944 until his death, two months short of his 99th birthday.
He was Dean of Clare from 1944 to 1951, and continued in a supportive role with his successors, John Robinson, Maurice Wiles and Mark Santer.
As an undergraduate at Emmanuel College, he had won prizes and a first class degree in Classics. He trained for the priesthood at Ridley Hall (where he would later be Vice-Principal) and was ordained priest in 1934.
In his field of New Testament studies, he was one of the leading scholars of his generation, and will be remembered with gratitude by a long succession of PhD students who now hold academic positions around the world.
His writings have been influential, in particular his 'Birth of the New Testament' and 'The Origin of Christology', which won the Collins Theological Book Prize.
He played a leading role in the translation of the New Testament for the New English Bible.
Generations of Clare undergraduates found him to be an energetic and wise pastor, and he sustained an astonishing amount of correspondence and visits with a wide circle of friends.
He retired, first to Pevensey and then to Dorset, but retained an active concern for the life of Clare College, to which he was completely devoted.
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