Oliver Chase Quick
Oliver Chase Quick (21 June 1885, Sedberg, now Cumbria – 21 January 1944, Longborough, Gloucester) was an English theologian and Anglican priest.[1]
Life
Oliver Quick was the son of Robert Hebert Quick and Bertha Parr.[2] He was educated at Harrow and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and ordained priest in 1912. He was Canon successively of Newcastle (1920–23), Carlisle (1923–30), St Paul's (1930–34), Durham (1934-39), and Christ Church, 1939-44. He was Chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury, and from 1939 to 1944 Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford. In his works advocated the doctrines of soul sleep and conditional immortality.(Doctrines of The Creed, 1st Edition, James Nisbet & Co, Welwyn, 1938, Reprinted March 1960, pp. 260–261) 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.
Works (selected)
- 1913: Catholic and Protestant Elements in Christianity London: Longmans, Green
- 1916: Essays in Orthodoxy London: Macmillan
- 1919: The Testing of Church Principles London: John Murray
- 1922: Liberalism, Modernism and Tradition (Bishop Paddock Lectures 1922) London: Longmans, Green
- 1923: Christian Beliefs and Modern Questions. London: SCM Press (4 editions: also 1924, 1934, 1936)
- 1927: The Christian Sacraments London: Nisbet (reissued several times, including a Fontana Library edition in 1964)
- 1931: The Ground of Faith and the Chaos of Thought London: Nisbet
- 1933: The Gospel of Divine Action London: Nisbet
- 1938: Doctrines of the Creed: their basis in Scripture and their meaning to-day London: Nisbet (reissued several times including a Fontana Library edition in 1963)
- 1940: Christianity and Justice London : The Sheldon Press
- 1944: The Gospel of the New World: a study in the Christian doctrine of atonement; with a prefatory memoir by the ... Archbishop of Canterbury (William Temple); introduction by F. Winifred Quick. London: Nisbet (posthumous)
Family
Quick married Frances Winifred Pearson, a niece of Karl Pearson.
Further reading
- Mozley, John Kenneth (1945) Oliver Quick as a Theologian. 16 p. London : S.P.C.K.
References
- ↑ Robbins, Keith (2008) England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales: the Christian Church, 1900-2000. Oxford: Oxford University Press ISBN 0-19-826371-6; p. 168
- ↑ Lindgren, C. E. "Quick, Robert Hebert". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/22954. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- Cross, F. L., ed. (1957) The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. London: Oxford University Press; p. 1132