Cranfield was born in Winchmore Hill, London on 13 September 1915 to parents Charles Ernest Cranfield (a town clerk and Methodist preacher) and Beatrice Mary, née Tubbs (an artist). Cranfield attended Mill Hill School and gained a first class degree in classics in 1936 from Jesus College, Cambridge. he went on to study Theology at Wesley House, Cambridge until 1939.[1]
He was ordained as a Methodist minister in 1941, served as a military chaplain during the Second World War, and then worked with prisoners-of-war and as a parish minister during the post-war period. He moved into academia and was appointment a lecturer in theology at the University of Durham in 1950. He was awarded a personal chair as Professor of Theology in 1978, and maintained his links with the university as Emeritus Professor from his retirement in 1980. He moved away from Methodism and became a minister in the Presbyterian Church of England (which later became the United Reformed Church) in 1954.[2][3][4][5][6]
On 7 April 1953, Cranfield married Ruth Elizabeth Gertrude Bole in Bath. They had twin daughters who both went on to become Church of Scotland ministers. Cranfield died on 27 February 2015 as a result of pneumonia and was buried at South Road Cemetery.[1]
Cranfield, Charles E. B. (1950). The First Epistle of Peter. London: SCM Press. OCLC3087616.
——— (1959). The Gospel according to Saint Mark: an introduction and commentary. Cambridge Greek testament commentary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. OCLC378578.
——— (1960). I & II Peter and Jude: introduction and commentary. Torch Bible commentaries. London: SCM Press. OCLC635843.
——— (1962). The Christian's Political Responsibility According to the New Testament. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd. OCLC603616627.
——— (1965). The Service of God. London: Epworth Press. OCLC4058767.
——— (1975). A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans I-VIII. International critical commentary on the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments (ICC). Vol. 28. Edinburgh: T & T Clark. ISBN9780567050403. OCLC1843858.
——— (1979). A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans IX-XVI and essays. International critical commentary on the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments (ICC). Vol. 28. Edinburgh: T & T Clark. ISBN9780567050410. OCLC1843858.
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