Charles R. Foster

Charles R. Foster is professor of religion and education emeritus at the Candler School of Theology, Emory University. Previously he taught at the Scarritt Graduate School in Nashville and the Methodist Theological School in Ohio. A native of the Pacific Northwest he graduated from Willamette University before heading east to Union Theological Seminary and Teachers College-Columbia University. Throughout his career questions about the relationship of religion and education in the formative practices of Christian congregations and American culture have dominated the agenda of his teaching, research and writing. He took up those questions in several books and many articles. They further prompted his participation in the Emory University Commission on Teaching as its co-chair, the advisory committee of the Wabash Center for Teaching Theology and Religion, and in his leadership of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching study of teaching practices in theological education.