As I understood what the author of the article was saying of Dodd's proposal of the "Wrath of God," it was an impersonal and almost automatic response to sin. To put it biologically, it is the white blood cells of God that act, but without the conscious decision to do so.
Such horrific acts of Exodus and the Flood, for example, are countered with the example of Jonah and his call of repentance for Nineveh. In this thought, God attempted to warn Nineveh that this act, this wrath, was coming and through repentance, it would, if you will, "pass over them," like the Angel of Death in the Passover narrative.
It reminds me of an interpretation of Rabbi Johanan, at the interpretation of the drowning of Pharaoh's men in the sea. The angels wished to rejoice, but God rebuked them saying "These are my children who are drowning, and you wish to rejoice?" In agreement with Dodd, as I understand it now, God does not derive pleasure from the necessary and dare I say regretful actions that is a consequence of sin.
