George Burman Foster

Background

Foster, George Burman was born on April 2, 1858 in Alderson, West Virginia, United States. Son of Oliver Harrison and Helen Louise (Skaggs) Foster.

Education

Educated Shelton College, West Virginia, 1876-1879. Bachelor of Arts, West Virginia University, 1883, Master of Arts, 1884. Graduate Rochester Theological Seminary, 1887.

Universities Göttingen and Berlin, 1891-1892.

(honorary Doctor of Philosophy, Denison University, 1892).

Career

Professor Franklin Lyon, of West Virginia University, August 6, 1884. Ordained Baptist ministry, 1879. Pastor Saratoga Springs, New York, 1887-1891.

Professor philosophy, McMaster University, 1892-1895.

Associate professor, 1895-1897, professor systematic theology, 1897-1905, professor philosophy of religion, since 1905, University of Chicago. Author: The Finality of the Christian Religion, 1906.

The Function of Religion in Manitoba’s Struggle for Existence, 1909. The Function of Death in Human Experience, 1917.

Joint author: A Guide to the Study of the Christian Religion.

Achievements

• George Burman Foster has been listed as a noteworthy theologian by Marquis Who's Who.

Connections

Married Mary, daughter

Father:

Oliver Harrison Foster

Mother:

Helen Louise (Skaggs) Foster

Spouse:

Mary