Douglas Allen Foster is professor of church history at Abilene Christian University

Abilene Christian University

Abilene Christian University is a private university located in Abilene, Texas, affiliated with Churches of Christ. ACU was founded in 1906, as Childers Classical Institute...

 and Associate Dean of Abilene Christian's Graduate School of Theology. He has taught at Abilene Christian since August 1991. He was appointed Associate Dean of the Graduate School of Theology in June 2006 and served until the Fall semester of 2007. He also serves as Director of the Center for Restoration Studies located in Abilene Christian's Brown Library. Foster is best known for his scholarly work on the Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement

Restoration Movement

The Restoration Movement is a Christian movement that began on the American frontier during the Second Great Awakening of the early 19th century...

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Education

B.A. Lipscomb University

Lipscomb University

Lipscomb University is a private, coeducational, liberal arts university in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. It is affiliated with the Churches of Christ. The campus is located in the Green Hills neighborhood of Nashville between Belmont Boulevard to the west and Granny White Pike on the east...

 (1974)

M.A. Central Methodist University

Central Methodist University

Central Methodist University is a private, coeducational, liberal arts university located in Fayette, Missouri. CMU is an accredited four year institution of higher education and offers masters, bachelors, and associates degrees...

 (1980)

Ph.D. Vanderbilt University

Vanderbilt University

Vanderbilt University is a private research university located in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Founded in 1873, the university is named for shipping and rail magnate "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provided Vanderbilt its initial $1 million endowment despite having never been to the...

 (1987)

Publications

• The Encyclopedia of the Stone-Campbell Movement. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2004. ISBN 0802838987,

ISBN 978-0802838988. (Editor)

• The Crux of the Matter. Abilene, TX
  Abilene, Texas
  Abilene is a city in Taylor and Jones counties in west central Texas. The population was 117,063 at the 2010 census. It is the principal city of the Abilene Metropolitan Statistical Area, which had a 2006 estimated population of 158,063. It is the county seat of Taylor County...
  
  : ACU Press, 2002. ISBN 089112036X, ISBN 978-0891120360.
• The Stone-Campbell Movement: An International Religious Tradition. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press
  University of Tennessee Press
  The University of Tennessee Press is a university press associated with the University of Tennessee.UT Press was established in 1940 by the University of Tennessee Board of Trustees.The University of Tennessee Press issues about 35 books each year...
  
  , 2002. ISBN 1-57233-179-8. (Editor)
• Will the Cycle Be Unbroken?: Churches of Christ Face the 21st Century. ACU Press, 1994. ISBN 1-57233-179-8.

Personal life

Foster is married to Mary Linda Grissom Foster (née 1948). They have a daughter (Mary Elizabeth) and a son (Mark).

External links

• Foster's Bio on Abilene Christian web-site