Michael Foster (philosopher)

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Michael Beresford Foster (1903–1959)

doctrine of creation) have influenced philosophers such as George Grant, who had, when writing his doctoral thesis, in fact visited with Foster in England.[4]

Education

His elementary schooling took place at a Merchant Taylors' School. He then proceeded to St John's College, Oxford, gaining a lifetime friend and colleague John Mabbott. In 1927–1928 he studied under Richard Kroner in Dresden, Germany.[5]

Foster's creation-science thesis

Foster is remembered for his thesis that the idea of Christian creation and its view of nature—especially in contrast to various Greek views of nature—deeply influenced the development of

rationalists.[11]

Mystery and philosophy

In his book Mystery and Philosophy (SCM Press, 1957), Foster seeks to explore the existence of mystery in various secular and religious disciplines in order to discover whether it serves a legitimate function in theology and philosophy when possibly applied to scientific and political realities. Foster asserts that realities exist (i.e., those found in revelation and appealed to in prayer

philosopher Ann Hartle, for example.[16][17][18]

Works

Works of his that remain important to the history of science include "The Christian Doctrine of Creation and the Rise of Modern Natural Science" (Mind, Volume 43, 1934, p. 446–468), "Christian Theology and Modern Science of Nature." (Mind, Volume 44, 1935, pp. 439–466 (part I) and Volume 45, 1936, pp. 1–27 (part II)).

  • Mystery and Philosophy, Michael Beresford Foster, SCM Press, 1957, pages 96
  • "Man's Idea of Nature", The Christian Scholar, Volume 41, Number 3, September 1958, pages 361–366
  • The Political Philosophies of Plato and Hegel, Michael Beresford Foster, Major Bronson Foster,
    Russell & Russell
    , 1965 (originally published 1935), 207 pages
  • Michael B. Foster. Ed. Edward McChesney Sait. Masters of Political Thought (Volume 1): Plato to Machiavelli. Houghton Mifflin, 1941. (a 1974 edition has
    ISBN 0-518-10154-1
    )
  • "The Christian Doctrine of Creation and the Rise of Modern Natural Science" in "Daniel O'connor and Francis Christopher Oakley (eds.), Creation: The Impact of an Idea, 1969, Charles Scribner's Sons set of 36 contemporary book citations

See also

References

  1. S2CID 144830862
  2. ^ biographical paragraph in The Christian Scholar, Volume XLI, Number 3, September 1958, page 361
  3. ISBN 978-0-8021-3869-9
    . 416 pages. pp.52, 54–55, 76, 114–115
  4. ISBN 0-8020-3904-9
    . p.753n.19
  5. ^
    ISBN 978-0-7734-9207-3
    , retrieved 2008-11-11
  6. ^ A Scientific Theology: Nature. Alister E. McGrath, Continuum International Publishing Group, 2001.
    ISBN 0-567-08791-3
    . p.90, p.138-140
  7. Edward B. Davis. "Christianity and Early Modern Science: The Foster thesis Reconsidered" (pp.75–95) Evangelicals and Science in Historical Perspective. Oxford University Press
    , 1999.
  8. ^ Scholarship and Christian faith: enlarging the conversation. Rhonda Hustedt Jacobsen, Rodney Sawatsky, Martin E. Marty. Oxford University Press US, 2004.
    ISBN 0-19-517038-5
    . pp.71–74.
  9. ISBN 0-567-08100-1
    . pp. 147–148.
  10. ^ a b Michael B. Foster. "The Opposition Between Hegel and the Philosophy of Empiricism". Given at the Third Congress of the International Hegel Society. Rome, 1933. Appeared in Verhandlungen des dritten Hegelkongresses vom. 19 bis 23. April 1933 in Rom.
  11. ^ Peter Harrison. The Fall of Man and the Foundations of Science. Cambridge Press, 2007. p.220n.123
  12. ^ Temple Kingston. "Mystery and Philosophy: Michael Foster and Babriel Marcel" (pp.297–316). Creation, Nature, and Political Order in the Philosophy of Michael Foster (1903–1959): The Classic Mind Articles and Others, with Modern Critical Essays. Edwin Mellen Press, 1992.
  13. ISBN 9780598735034
  14. ISBN 1-58134-792-8
    . p. 43, 44.
  15. ISBN 9780598735034
  16. ISBN 0-521-82168-1
    . pp.157, 162, 163, 168, 268, 270, 271, 287, 299.
  17. ISBN 0-8476-8418-0
    . pp. 137, 166n105.
  18. ISBN 0-88706-285-7
    . p.231n4.

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