Oliver Chase Quick

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

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.

Quick was ordained to the diaconate in 1911^[5] 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.^[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]

• 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.

• "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.

• "The Humanist Theory of Value: A Criticism". Mind. 19 (74). Oxford University Press: 218–230. 1910. doi:10.1093/mind/XIX.1.218. ISSN 0026-4423. JSTOR 2248191.
• "The Humanist Theory of Value". Mind. 20 (78). Oxford University Press: 256–257. 1911. doi:10.1093/mind/XX.78.256. ISSN 0026-4423. JSTOR 2248789.
• "Mysticism: Its Meaning and Danger". The Journal of Theological Studies. 14 (53). Oxford University Press: 1–9. 1912. doi:10.1093/jts/os-XIV.1.1. ISSN 0022-5185. JSTOR 23947295.
• "Bergson's 'Creative Evolution' and the Individual". Mind. 22 (4). Oxford University Press: 217–230. 1913. doi:10.1093/mind/XXII.4.217. ISSN 0026-4423. JSTOR 2248801.
• "God as King and Father: Address to the 10th Conference of Modern Churchmen". The Modern Churchman. 13: 409–418. 1923.
• "The Fact and Doctrine of the Resurrection". Anglican Theological Review. 8: 114–123. 1925. ISSN 0003-3286.
• "The Jerusalem Meeting and the Christian Message". International Review of Mission. 17 (3): 417–576. 1928. doi:10.1111/j.1758-6631.1928.tb04485.x. ISSN 1758-6631.
• "Books That Have Influenced Our Epoch: Canon Streeter's 'Reality'". The Expository Times. 40 (8): 344–348. 1929. doi:10.1177/001452462904000802. ISSN 0014-5246. S2CID 169419105.
• "Christian Theology and Moral Principles". The Expository Times. 47 (5): 200–207. 1937. doi:10.1177/001452463704800502. ISSN 0014-5246. S2CID 170926432.
• "Dogmatic Theology". Theology. 38 (226): 246–254. 1939. doi:10.1177/0040571X3903822602. ISSN 0040-571X. S2CID 221074195.
• "Justice and Love". Theology. 39 (229): 5–14. 1939. doi:10.1177/0040571X3903922902. ISSN 0040-571X. S2CID 171886571.
• "The Doctrine Report and the Sacraments". Theology. 39 (233): 344–353. 1939. doi:10.1177/0040571X3903923304. ISSN 0040-571X. S2CID 172037440.

• 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.