Oliver Chase Quick
Born(1885-06-21)21 June 1885
Sedbergh, England
Died21 January 1944(1944-01-21) (aged 58)
Longborough, England
SpouseFrances Winifred Pearson
Parents
Ecclesiastical career
ChurchChurch of England
Ordained
  • 1911 (deacon)
  • 1912 (priest)
Academic background
Alma materCorpus Christi College, Oxford
Academic work
Discipline
  • Theology
  • philosophy
Institutions

Oliver Chase Quick (21 June 1885 – 21 January 1944) was an English theologian, philosopher, and Anglican priest.[1]

Early life and education

Oliver Quick was born on 21 June 1885 in Sedbergh, Yorkshire, the son of the educationist Robert Hebert Quick and Bertha Parr.[2] He was educated at Harrow School and studied classics and theology at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.[3]

Quick married Frances Winifred Pearson,[4] a niece of Karl Pearson.

Ecclesiastical and academic career

Quick was ordained to the diaconate in 1911[5] and to the priesthood in 1912. Prior to becoming chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1915, he was a vice-principal of Leeds Clergy School and then a curate at St Martin-in-the-Fields, London.[6] He was given his first incumbency in 1918 in his appointment to the vicarage of Kenley, Surrey.[6] He went on to be appointed to residentiary canonries of Newcastle (1920), Carlisle (1923), and St Paul's (1930).[6] He became a professor of theology at Durham University in 1934 and was appointed to a canonry of Durham Cathedral ex officio.[6] He moved to Oxford in 1939, having been appointed to the Regius Professorship of Divinity at the University of Oxford, which carried with it a canonry of Christ Church Cathedral.[7] He remained in the post until his death in 1944.[8]

In his works he advocated the doctrines of soul sleep and conditional immortality.[9] He was one of the leading exponents of orthodox Anglicanism[10] and upheld a position similar to that of the authors of Essays Catholic and Critical (1926). He followed systematic and synthetic rather than historical methods and expressed his thought in a modern way.

Quick died on 21 January 1944 in Longborough, Gloucestershire, and was buried four days later in the churchyard in Longborough.[11]

Published works

Books

  • Catholic and Protestant Elements in Christianity. London: Longmans, Green & Co. 1913.
  • Modern Philosophy and the Incarnation. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 1915.
  • Essays in Orthodoxy. London: Macmillan. 1916.
  • The Testing of Church Principles. London: John Murray. 1919.
  • Liberalism, Modernism and Tradition: Bishop Paddock Lectures, 1922. London: Longmans, Green & Co. 1922.
  • Christian Beliefs and Modern Questions (1st ed.). London: SCM Press. 1923.
  • Christian Beliefs and Modern Questions (2nd ed.). London: SCM Press. 1924.
  • The Christian Sacraments. London: Harper & Brothers Publishers. 1927. (Reissued several times, including a Fontana Library edition in 1964.)
  • Philosophy and the Cross. London: Oxford University Press. 1931.
  • The Ground of Faith and the Chaos of Thought. London: Nisbet. 1931.
  • The Realism of Christ's Parables. London: SCM Press. 1931.
  • The Gospel of Divine Action. London: Nisbet. 1933.
  • Christian Beliefs and Modern Questions (3rd ed.). London: SCM Press. 1934.
  • Christian Beliefs and Modern Questions (4th ed.). London: SCM Press. 1936.
  • Doctrines of the Creed: Their Basis in Scripture and Their Meaning To-Day. London: Nisbet. 1938. (Reissued several times including a Fontana Library edition in 1963.)
  • Christianity and Justice. London: The Sheldon Press. 1940.
  • The Gospel of the New World: A Study in the Christian Doctrine of Atonement. Prefatory memoir by William Temple. Introduction by F. Winifred Quick. London: Nisbet. 1944.

Book chapters

  • "Goodness and Happiness". In A. D. Lindsay. Christianity and the Present Moral Unrest. London: George Allen & Unwin. pp. 73–86. 1926.
  • "The Doctrine of the Church of England on Sacraments". In R. Dunkerley. The Ministry and the Sacraments. London: SCM Press. pp. 124–137. 1937.

Journal articles

Other

  • Fasting Communion: A Discussion. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 1917.
  • Some Arguments for the New Prayer Book. London: League of Loyalty and Order. 1927.
  • Religion and Science as Ways of Knowledge. Edinburgh: T. and T. Clark. 1933.

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