Oliver Chase Quick (21 June 1885 – 21 January 1944) was an English theologian, philosopher, and Anglican priest.[1]
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Born | Sedbergh, England | 21 June 1885
Died | 21 January 1944 Longborough, England | (aged 58)
Spouse | Frances Winifred Pearson |
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Church | Church of England |
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Alma mater | Corpus Christi College, Oxford |
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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[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]