Too Many Guys Named Dods!

[bookslover]

Well, there was the good Marcus Dods (1786-1838). Then, there was the bad Marcus Dods (1834-1909). The bad Marcus Dods had a son - also named Marcus Dods (don't know his dates).

Then there was another Marcus Dods (1918-1984). This one was a film composer: Murder on the Orient Express
(1974), Life of Brian (1979), The Dark Crystal (1984), etc.

I think all of these Dods's were from Scotland. Could they all be related?

For a good example of the work of the good Marcus Dods, go here (top post - "Grow in Knowledge"): www.ninetysixandten.wordpress.com.

 

[MW]

I only know of the first two. The one called "good MD" was the father of the one called "bad MD." There are some interesting personal reminiscences of the father in the letters of the son. The father had died when the son was young. There is also an interesting work published during the controversy surrounding the younger MD. Senior MD had written on the Scriptures during the apocrypha controversy, and his testimony to the authority of Scripture was republished to refute the opinion put forward by junior MD.

The Incarnation of the Eternal Word was renowned in its time as a solid refutation of Irving's doctrine that the Son assumed a sinful nature.

 

[Reformed Covenanter]

The Incarnation of the Eternal Word was renowned in its time as a solid refutation of Irving's doctrine that the Son assumed a sinful nature.

Thanks for this reference, as it is a subject that I am very interested in reading more about. I recently came across some interesting (even if somewhat anecdotal) comments by Thomas Chalmers about Edward Irving in a memoir by the evangelical Quaker, J. J. Gurney. Here is a link to The Incarnation of the Eternal Word: https://archive.org/details/onincarnationofe00dods

 

[bookslover]

The Incarnation of the Eternal Word was renowned in its time as a solid refutation of Irving's doctrine that the Son assumed a sinful nature.

Thanks for this reference, as it is a subject that I am very interested in reading more about. I recently came across some interesting (even if somewhat anecdotal) comments by Thomas Chalmers about Edward Irving in a memoir by the evangelical Quaker, J. J. Gurney. Here is a link to The Incarnation of the Eternal Word: https://archive.org/details/onincarnationofe00dods

Daniel, if you'd like to know more about the relationship between Chalmers and Irving, you should read Reminiscences (1881) by Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), which is Carlyle's memoirs. Carlyle was a close friend of Irving when both men were young adults and Carlyle devotes an entire chapter to Irving in his memoirs, a chapter that runs to nearly 150 pages. Chalmers is also mentioned extensively in that chapter.

Reminiscences is available as an Oxford World's Classics paperback, edited by K. J. Fielding and Ian Campbell in 1997. It's the very first time that the volume has been published complete and unexpurgated.

Highly recommended.

 

[bookslover]

The Incarnation of the Eternal Word was renowned in its time as a solid refutation of Irving's doctrine that the Son assumed a sinful nature.

Thanks for this reference, as it is a subject that I am very interested in reading more about. I recently came across some interesting (even if somewhat anecdotal) comments by Thomas Chalmers about Edward Irving in a memoir by the evangelical Quaker, J. J. Gurney. Here is a link to The Incarnation of the Eternal Word: https://archive.org/details/onincarnationofe00dods

I followed that link. They've attributed the book to the wrong Dods. That's a pretty good trick: publishing a book 3 years before you're born. Heh.

 

[Reformed Covenanter]

Daniel, if you'd like to know more about the relationship between Chalmers and Irving, you should read Reminiscences (1881) by Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), which is Carlyle's memoirs. Carlyle was a close friend of Irving when both men were young adults and Carlyle devotes an entire chapter to Irving in his memoirs, a chapter that runs to nearly 150 pages. Chalmers is also mentioned extensively in that chapter.

Reminiscences is available as an Oxford World's Classics paperback, edited by K. J. Fielding and Ian Campbell in 1997. It's the very first time that the volume has been published complete and unexpurgated.

Highly recommended.

Great; thanks for the recommendation.

 

[MW]

There is a second edition available on googlebooks with a brief notice by Thomas Chalmers.