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Charles Francis Digby Moule CBE FBA (3 December 1908 - 30 September 2007), was an Anglican priest and theologian. He was a leading scholar of the New Testament, and was Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge for 25 years, from 1951 to 1976.
Moule was born in China, in Hangchow (now Hangzhou) near Shanghai, where his father, Rev. H.W. Moule, and mother were missionaries. He studied theology at Ridley Hall, and was ordained as a deacon in 1933 and as a priest in 1934.
He became a Fellow at Clare College, Cambridge in 1944, serving as Dean from 1944 to 1951. He remained a Fellow at Clare until his death. He was also a Lecturer in divinity at Cambridge University from 1944 to 1951, when he was appointed Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity in 1951. Founded as a readership by Lady Margaret Beaufort in 1502, it is the oldest chair in the University of Cambridge, and is traditionally held by a New Testament scholar.
He produced two main written works: The Birth of the New Testament, 1962, which explores the context in which the New Testament was written, and The Origin of Christology, 1977, which proposed that the church's understanding of Jesus had not evolved but rather developed and matured over the centuries.