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From Authority Religion to Spirit Religion
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From Authority Religion to Spirit Religion

An Intellectual Biography of George Burman Foster, 1857-1918
By: W. Creighton Peden

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George Burman Foster was a key figure in the “Chicago School.” This volume explores his religious thought through his major writings and diverse shorter works, discovering that Foster was laying the foundation for the emergence of American humanism.

George Burman Foster (1857–1918) was a key figure among the philosophers and theologians who composed the early “Chicago School.” This volume makes available the development…
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George Burman Foster (1857–1918) was a key figure among the philosophers and theologians who composed the early “Chicago School.” This volume makes available the development of Foster’s religious thought by exploring his major writings as well as diverse shorter works. Conclusions are provided following each major section of the book. Through this approach we discover that Foster was laying the foundation for the emergence of American humanism.

W. Creighton Peden is Fuller E. Callaway Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Georgia Regents University, USA, and President Emeritus of the Highlands Institute for American Religious and Philosophical Thought. Peden received a BA from Davidson College, an MA from the University of Chicago, and a PhD from St Andrews University, Scotland.

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  • ISBN: 1-4438-4853-0
  • ISBN13: 978-1-4438-4853-4
  • Date of Publication: 2013-07-04

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  • ISBN: 1-4438-5017-9
  • ISBN13: 978-1-4438-5017-9
  • Date of Publication: 2013-07-04
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  • BIC: YQRC, JFCX, HRLB
  • BISAC: REL067080, REL051000, REL015000, BIO018000, BIO009000, BIO006000
  • THEMA: YPJN4, JBCC9, QRVG
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  • Foster was one of the great religious skeptics. The Fundamentalist movement in American probably started in reaction to him. Controversy around him hit the front pages of the newspapers and resulted in attempts to remove him from the ministry and his teaching position. Peden has given us a wonderful look into the mind of this important thinker.
    - – Jerome A. Stone Author of Religious Naturalism Today; Adjunct Faculty Member, Meadville Lombard Theological School
  • More essential scholarship from Creighton Peden, adding to his prodigious historical biographies of eight later scholars of the ‘Chicago School' of theological liberalism, naturalism, and humanism. Knowing more of the trials and courage of George Burman Foster will help the academic community appreciate those religious attempts to stay parallel with modern science. Whether the anti-intellectual religiosity now dominating America can be transformed is, unfortunately, unlikely.
    - – Robert B. Tapp Professor Emeritus of Humanities, Religious Studies, and South Asian Studies, University of Minnesota; Dean and Faculty Chair Emeritus, The Humanist Institute, New York City

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