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George Burman Foster

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Name
  
George Foster


Died
  
December 22, 1918

Books
  
Do Human Beings Have Free Will: A Debate

Similar People
  
Clarence Darrow, Curtis W Reese, E Haldeman‑Julius

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George Burman Foster (1858–1918) was part of the faculty in the Divinity School (Baptist) at the University of Chicago under the leadership of William Rainey Harper. 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.

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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.

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