George Burman Foster

George Burman Foster (1858–1919) was part of the faculty in the Divinity School (Baptist) at the University of Chicago under the leadership of William Rainey Harper.^[1] His views were often thought by his contemporaries to support scientific naturalistic and humanistic views that contradict a Baptist view. A friendship with Clarence Darrow shows that despite Foster's progressive views he still valued and respected the views of a traditional Christian community.^[2]

Selected publications

• The finality of the Christian religion. University of Chicago Press, 1906.
• The function of religion in man's struggle for existence. University of Chicago Press, 1909.
• Christianity in its modern expression. Macmillan, 1921.

References

1. George M. Marsden. Fundamentalism and American culture. Oxford University Press US, 2006. ISBN 0-19-530047-5. p. 105.
2. Leslie A. Muray.Liberal Protestantism and Science Contributor John B. Cobb, Jr. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2008. ISBN 0-313-33701-2. pp. 43-

Further reading

• Gary J. Dorrien. The making of American liberal theology: idealism, realism, and modernity, 1900–1950. Westminster John Knox Press, 2003. ISBN 0-664-22355-9. pp. 156–161.