Oliver Chase Quick was an English theologian and Anglican priest.

Oliver Quick was educated at Harrow

Harrow School

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 and Corpus Christi College, Oxford

Corpus Christi College, Oxford

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, 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

Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford

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, 1939-44. He was Chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury

Archbishop of Canterbury

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, and from 1939 to 1944 Regius Professor of Divinity

Regius Professor of Divinity

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 at the University of Oxford

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. In his works advocated the doctrines of soul sleep and conditional immortality

Conditional immortality

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. 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)
• 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); introd. by F. Winifred Quick. London: Nisbet (posthumous)

Further reading

• Mozley, John Kenneth (1945) Oliver Quick as a Theologian. 16 p. London : S.P.C.K.