Dr. Doug Foster
Dr. Douglas Foster is Scholar in Residence at Abilene Christian University. He served as Professor of Church History and Director of the Center for Restoration Studies at ACU from 1991-2017. Previously he served as professor of history at Lipscomb University in Nashville. He received a PhD in Church History from Vanderbilt University in 1986, and an MA in Theology in 1980 from Scarritt College, both in Nashville, TN. Foster’s scholarly work has centered in three areas: the place of the Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement in American and global Christianity; the development of the idea of Christian unity in Christianity; and the history of white supremacy and racial oppression in Christianity. He served as General Editor and a contributor for the Encyclopedia of the Stone Campbell Movement (2004), as well as The Stone-Campbell Movement: A Global History (2013). In 2013 he published The Story of Churches of Christ, a brief introduction to the movement, and in 2014 recorded a video series with the same title. In June 2020 Eerdmans published his A Life of Alexander Campbell, the first critical biography of the American religious leader. His chapter on the history of white supremacy in America titled “White Supremacy and the Church: How White Christians Created and Perpetuate the Ideology of White Supremacy,” appeared in 2017 in Thinking Theologically About Mass Incarceration: Biblical Foundations and Justice Imperatives, Paulist Press. In 2020 his article “Reclaiming Reconciliation: The Corruption of ‘Racial Reconciliation’ and How It Might be Reclaimed for Racial Justice and Unity” appeared in The Journal of Ecumenical Studies 55 (Winter 2020). Married in 1979 to the former Linda Grissom, Doug and Linda have two children, Mary Elizabeth Riedel (38) and Mark (33); and two grandchildren, Gavin Riedel (11) and Gwyneth Riedel (8).
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