Oliver Chase Quick

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^{[citation needed]} 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]

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

"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.

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

^ MacKinnon 1993, p. 101; Robbins 2008, p. 168.
^ Chapman 2004; Lindgren 2004; Sell 2010, p. 143.
^ Chapman 2004; Lucas 1993, p. 4.
^ Sell 2010, p. 144.
^ Chapman 2004; Chapman 2006, p. 830.
^ a b c d Chapman 2006, p. 830.
^ Chapman 2006, p. 830; Lucas 1993, p. 17; Sell 2010, p. 144.
^ Chapman 2017, p. 39.
^ Quick 1938, pp. 260–261.
^ Chapman 2006, pp. 830–831; Mozley 1945, p. 36.
^ Sell 2010, p. 147.

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.