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George Burman Foster was born on April 2, 1858 in Alderson, West Virginia. He was the son of Oliver Harrison Foster and Helen Louise (Skaggs) Foster.
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George Burman Foster was born on April 2, 1858 in Alderson, West Virginia. He was the son of Oliver Harrison Foster and Helen Louise (Skaggs) Foster.
George Foster obtained his collegiate education at Shelton College, West Virginia, 1876-79, and at West Virginia University where he received the degree of B. A. in 1883. He completed his theological studies at Rochester Theological Seminary and graduated in 1887.
From 1891 until 1892 he spent most fruitfully in the Universities of Gottingen and Berlin, and shortly after his return he was granted the degree of Ph. D. by Denison University.
Meanwhile, in 1879, George Foster had been ordained to the Baptist ministry, and in 1883-84 he was pastor at Morgantown, Pennsylvania. After completing his theological work at Rochester Theological Seminary where he graduated in 1887, Foster served as pastor at Saratoga Springs, New York, 1887-91. Essentially of scholarly rather than of ministerial temperament, he gave up his pastorate in the latter year in order to carry on theological studies in Germany.
The rest of his life was devoted to teaching and writing. He was professor of philosophy at McMaster University, 1892-95; associate professor and professor of systematic theology at the University of Chicago, 1895-1905; and professor of philosophy of religion at the University of Chicago from 1905 until his death at the age of sixty.
For this reason he was bitterly attacked in 1909 by the Reverend Johnston Myers, fundamentalist pastor of the Immanuel Baptist Church, Chicago. Delighting in debate, Foster sought rather than shunned controversy.
In 1917 and 1918 wide attention was given to his public debates with Clarence Darrow on the subjects, “Is Life Worth Living?” and “Resolved: that the Human Will is Free. ” Darrow is reported subsequently to have said that Foster was the most intellectual man he ever knew.
His chief writings were: The Finality of the Christian Religion (1906); The Function of Religion in Man’s Struggle for Existence (1909); The Function of Death in Human Experience (1915); “The Contribution of Critical Scholarship to Ministerial Efficiency, ” in G. B. Smith, Guide to the Study of the Christian Religion (1916); Christianity in its Modern Expression (1921).
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In his religious denomination Foster was a Baptist and in 1879, he had been ordained to the Baptist ministry.
Foster warred consistently against authority and tradition, and rejected the rationalistic arguments for religion, but defended eloquently the personal faith of the heart. Religion he regarded as something experimental, growing or declining with the age, but essential to man’s nature, and, in form, completely expressed in the life and legend of Christ. The sanctions of religion he considered almost wholly pragmatic.
On August 6, 1884, Foster was married to Mary Lyon, daughter of Prof. Franklin Lyon of West Virginia University.