English theologian
Oliver Chase Quick (21 June 1885 – 21 January 1944) was an English theologian, philosopher, and Anglican priest.
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. He was educated at Harrow School and studied classics and theology at Corpus Christi College, Oxford .
Quick married Frances Winifred Pearson, a niece of Karl Pearson .
Ecclesiastical and academic career
Quick was ordained to the diaconate [citation needed ] in 1911 and to the priesthood in 1912.[citation needed ] 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. He was given his first incumbency in 1918 in his appointment to the vicarage of Kenley , Surrey. He went on to be appointed to residentiary canonries of Newcastle (1920), Carlisle (1923), and St Paul's (1930). He became a professor of theology at Durham University in 1934 and was appointed to a canonry of Durham Cathedral ex officio . 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 . He remained in the post until his death in 1944.
In his works he advocated the doctrines of soul sleep and conditional immortality . He was one of the leading exponents of orthodox Anglicanism 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.
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.
References
Citations
Works cited
Chapman, Mark D. (2004). "Quick, Oliver Chase (1885–1944)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi :10.1093/ref:odnb/35639 .
——— (2006). "Quick, Oliver Chase (1885–1944)". In Brown, Stuart (ed.). Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Philosophers . Vol. 2. Bristol, England: Thoemmes Continuum. pp. 830– 831. ISBN 978-1-84371-096-7 .
——— (2017). "The Evolution of Anglican Theology, 1910–2000". In Morris, Jeremy (ed.). The Oxford History of Anglicanism. Volume IV: Global Western Anglicanism, c. 1910–present . Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 25– 49. doi :10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199641406.003.0002 . ISBN 978-0-19-964140-6 .
Cross, F. L. , ed. (1957). The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church . London: Oxford University Press. p. 1132.
Lindgren, C. E. (2004). "Quick, Robert Hebert (1831–1891)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi :10.1093/ref:odnb/22954 .
Lucas, Paul (1993). "Oliver Quick". Theology . 96 (769): 4– 19. doi :10.1177/0040571X9309600102 . ISSN 0040-571X . S2CID 221013080 .
MacKinnon, Donald M. (1993). "Oliver Chase Quick as a Theologian". Theology . 96 (770): 101– 117. doi :10.1177/0040571X9309600202 . ISSN 0040-571X . S2CID 170394485 .
Mozley, John Kenneth (1945). "Oliver Quick as a Theologian – II". Theology . 48 (296): 30– 36. doi :10.1177/0040571X4504829602 . ISSN 0040-571X . S2CID 171802834 .
Quick, Oliver Chase (1938). Doctrines of The Creed (1st ed.). Welwyn, England: James Nisbet & Co. (published 1960).
Robbins, Keith (2008). England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales: the Christian Church, 1900–2000 . Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi :10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198263715.001.0001 . ISBN 978-0-19-826371-5 .
Sell, Alan P. F. (2010). Four Philosophical Anglicans: W. G. DeBurgh, W. R. Matthews, O. C. Quick, H. A. Hodges . Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock (published 2015). ISBN 978-1-4982-2008-8 .
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