“…the Foundation chooses to design large-scale, cost-effective, and high-impact projects, determining the best individual or organization to administer and implement these initiatives… Sir John Templeton is most interested in supporting projects which have a clear purpose and which are likely to have a significant strategic impact on the field of science and religion, spirituality and health, free enterprise, or character development… for JTF granting purposes there is a need to consider the results in a more strategic manner - how will your project further the field broadly or at your institution. How might it benefit another discipline or the wider scholarly community? Will it influence opinion leaders, decision makers or representatives of the media who might otherwise be skeptical of the value of religion, or will it help to institutionalize the dialogue on a particular campus?”
Spiritual Information
Through Science
Working closely with scientists, theologians, medical
professional, philosophers and other scholars, the Foundation encourages
substantive dialogue in order to stimulate research and reflection in the
relationship between science and religion.
John Templeton was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1987 for his
philanthropic efforts, including his endowment of Templeton College, Oxford.
John
M. Templeton, Jr., M.D.,
President of the John Templeton Foundation and Sir John's son…
Include:
Elizabeth Peale/Chairman of
the Board of the Positive Thinking Foundation
[husband Norman Vincent Peale was a 33º Freemason and an associate of
Robert Schuller, also a 33º Mason]
Freeman Dyson a fellow of the Royal Society of London
Dr. Lindon J. Eaves ––Distinguished Professor of Human Genetics Psychiatry at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
Mr. Foster Friess––Founder of firm that
manages approximately $7 billion in equities including the Brandywine mutual
funds…past president of the Council for National Policy
Dr. Philip Hefner–– serves as Co-Director of the Chicago Center for Religion and Science
and is Editor-in-Chief of Zygon Journal
of Religion and Science [See”
Transformation of the
Church: Zygon Religion
Dr. Robert L. Herrmann on the staff at Gordon College in Wenham, MA, where he
directs several projects for the John Templeton Foundation;
William H. Hurlbut M.D.––Director of the Human Genome Diversity Project;
Mr. Sanford N. McDonnell ––Chairman of the Board of The Character Education Partnership, Inc…,
a national organization dedicated to developing moral character and civic
virtue in our young people. [ See Watch Unto Prayer
report Charter Schools, Character Education & The Eugenics Internationale/ Good Genes Not Enough: Character
Education needed for Race Betterment]
Rev. Glenn R. Mosley –– President and CEO of the Association of Unity Churches.
Dr. Nancey Murphy ––Professor
of Christian Philosophy at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, CA
Dr. David G. Myers––John Dirk Werkman Professor of
Psychology at Hope College, Holland, MI;
Hope College is funded generously––$7.5
MILLION––by Rich and Helen DeVos Foundation [CNP]; trustees of Hope College
include the DeVos and the Van Andels [Van Andel Institute]. Van Andel Institute
is a participating center for the
eugenics-related, Nat’l Institute of Health’s Human Genome Project.
Robert Pollack Ph.D.–– Director of the Center
for the Study of Science and Religion, at Columbia University
Dr. Stephen G. Post ––Dr. Post received his doctorate in
religious ethics and moral philosophy from the University of Chicago Divinity School;
Assn.
of Theological Schools-ATS/Rockefeller affiliated]
Jeffrey P. Schloss Ph.D.–– Professor of Biology at Westmont
College and a Fellow of the Discovery
Institute; He has been recognized with (two) Templeton Awards
and a Pew Foundation Project in Curriculum Development; Discovery Institute has
a number of “fellows” who interface with Christian education––Discovery’s
Center for the Renewal of Science of Religion; See TOC Database, Control over
Christian Educational Institutions,
Karen Armstrong is an honorary member of the Association of Muslim
Social Scientists; Dr. M
A Zaki Badawi ––Principal of The
Muslim College in London. He is Chairman of the UK Imams and Mosques
Council and the UK Muslim Law (Shariah) Council. Rev. Stephen Orchard––Director
of the
Christian Education Movement [merged with
the National Christian Education Council (NCEC, formerly the National Sunday
School Union) to form Christian Education, UK…
Templeton
Honors College At Eastern University ––Eastern College
Templeton Honors College
includes representation:
Donald Bartel/Navigators,
T. Kenneth Cribb/former Heritage Foundation
Trustee
Dr. Harold Heie/Center for Christian
Studies, Gordon College/Academic Policy Council for CCCU/Council of Christian
Colleges and Universities
Dr. D. Bruce Lockerbie/Paideia, Inc.
Michael Novak/member of the globalist Council on Foreign Relations/CFR/American Enterprise
Institute-AEI
Rick Santorum/ US Senator [PA]
Dr.
David E. Schroeder / President,
Nyack College / Christian & Missionary Alliance
Dean Trulear/Public Private
Ventures/InterVarsity Christian Fellowship Board of Trustees
John Templeton Oxford Seminars
on Science and Christianity with CCCU/
John Templeton Oxford Seminars on Science and Christianity
Volume No. 5, January
2001Editors: Alistair McGrath…
See TOC Database, Mission Mobilization, United Kingdom, Oxford
University, Wycliffe Hall, Principal Alistair McGrath
Templeton Science and Religion
grants––Expanding Humanity's Vision of God
Templeton Character Development––Colleges
& Character grants
common set of core values: honesty, self-control, perseverance,
respect, compassion, and serving others.
Spiritual Growth Programs 40 college programs, not all faith-related,
that provide opportunities for students to develop a coherent vision of moral
integrity that connects belief to behavior
The Templeton Guide profiles 50 college and university presidents who are setting the
standard in higher education for what a leader can do to establish priorities
and programs that help prepare students for lives of personal and civic
responsibility.
•Templeton Award for Progress in
Religion
UNITED NATIONS NEWS
CONFERENCE WILL ANNOUNCE 2002 TEMPLETON PRIZE
Leading religion prize, among
the world's largest, honors discoveries and breakthroughs in expanding
perceptions about divinity.
A news conference to announce the 2002 Templeton Prize will be
held on Thursday, March 14 at 11:00 AM at the Church Center for
the United Nations, 44th Street and First Avenue in New York City. The prize each
year is awarded to a living individual who has shown extraordinary originality
in research or discoveries to advance understanding of God and spiritual
realities.…
The Duke of Edinburgh will present the award to the recipient at a
private ceremony at Buckingham Palace on Monday, April 29.
The prize, valued at 700,000 pounds sterling, approximately one
million dollars, is the world's largest annual monetary award given to an
individual. Created by global investor and philanthropist Sir John Templeton in
1972, the prize seeks to encourage and honor those who advance religion and
spiritual matters in much the same way the Nobel Prizes honor scientists and
economists. The monetary value of the Templeton Prize is always kept at a level
that exceeds the Nobels as a way to underscore Templeton's belief that benefits
from advances in spiritual discoveries can be quantifiably more vast than those
from other worthy human endeavors.
To that end, in an effort to more clearly define the prize, the
award has been renamed the Templeton Prize for Progress Toward Research or
Discoveries about Spiritual Realities, though it will continue to be referred
to as the Templeton Prize.
Last year's recipient was the Rev. Canon Dr. Arthur Peacocke, an
ordained Anglican priest, Oxford University faculty member and a biochemist who
pioneered early research into DNA. He has led a worldwide movement for creative
interaction between theology and science. He strongly challenges the notion
that scriptural authority is automatic or self-authenticating and has earned a
reputation as a no-nonsense proponent for reasoned, fact-based debate on issues
of science and religion.
The Templeton Foundation, which funds the Tempeton Prize, asks the
prize's international, interfaith panel of judges to consider all religions
when making the award.
John M. Templeton, Princeton Theological
Seminary Board of Trustees Emeriti/ae [and Princeton’s Templeton Hall!]
John Templeton––The National
Bible Week and the American Bible Society
John M. Templeton, the son of Sir John Templeton, is on the board
of the Nat’l. Bible Week [USA].
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