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
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and studied classics and theology at
Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
Quick married Frances Winifred Pearson, a niece of
Karl Pearson
Karl Pearson (; born Carl Pearson; 27 March 1857 – 27 April 1936) was an English mathematician and biostatistician. He has been credited with establishing the discipline of mathematical statistics. He founded the world's first university st ...
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Ecclesiastical and academic career
Quick was ordained in 1911 and to the priesthood in 1912. Prior to becoming chaplain to the
Archbishop of Canterbury
The archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and a principal leader of the Church of England, the ceremonial head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury. The current archbishop is Justi ...
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
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(1923), and
St Paul's (1930). He became a professor of theology at
Durham University
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in 1934 and was appointed to a canonry of
Durham Cathedral
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''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.
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* "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.
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Quick, Oliver Chase
1885 births
1944 deaths
20th-century Anglican theologians
20th-century English Anglican priests
20th-century British philosophers
Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Anglican philosophers
Annihilationists
English Anglican theologians
English philosophers
People educated at Harrow School
Regius Professors of Divinity (University of Oxford)