Realized Eschatology Realized eschatology is associated primarily with the name C. H. Dodd (1884–1973), the Cambridge scholar. Vigorously reacting to Schweitzer’s one-sided “consistent eschatology,” Dodd in his The Parables of the Kingdom (1935) and The Apostolic Preaching and Its Developments (1936) went to the other extreme and contended that biblical eschatology has been realized, that Jesus did in fact bring in the kingdom of God. His ministry, death, resurrection, ascension, and Parousia—a