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	Templeton Prize for Progress Toward Research or Discoveries about Spiritual Realities
		The Prize is intended to help people see the infinity of the Universal Spirit still creating the galaxies and all living things and the variety of ways in which the Creator is revealing himself to different people.
		The Templeton Prize serves to stimulate this quest for deeper understanding and pioneering breakthroughs in religious concepts and knowledge by calling attention annually to achievements in this area.
		The Templeton Prize is awarded annually on the decision of a panel of judges from the major religions of the world today.
	www.templetonprize.org /purpose.html (817 words)

	Templeton Prize - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The prize is named after Sir John Templeton, an American-born British entrepreneur and businessman, who was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1987 for his philanthropic efforts.
		The prize is, as of 2006, the largest single annual financial prize award given to an individual for intellectual merit.
		The prize has been criticized by Richard Dawkins, a British ethologist and atheist, who labeled it "a very large sum of money given (...) usually to a scientist who is prepared to say something nice about religion" (Dawkins 2006).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Templeton_Prize (390 words)

	Templeton Positive Psychology Prize Winners-2000
		Lisa Aspinwall, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology at the University of Maryland, received the second place prize of $50,000 for her research that builds on earlier findings that optimists tend to be resilient, successful people and looks at the question of why optimists tend to do well.
		The First Place Award of $100,000 is divided as a prize of $30,000 to be used any way the recipient chooses and a grant of $70,000 to support research in the positive psychology field.
		The Second Place Award of $50,000 includes a prize of $15,000 and a grant of $35,000; the Third Place Award of $30,000 includes a prize of $10,000 and a grant of $20,000; and the Fourth Place Award of $20,000 includes a prize of $7,500 and a grant of $12,500.
	www.apa.org /releases/templetonwinner.html (582 words)

	Bible Colleges and Templeton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The John Templeton Foundation was founded in 1987 in the USA by billionaire Sir John Mark Templeton, a highly successful pioneer of globally diversified mutual funds, who also created the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion in 1973.
		Templeton are totally open about their evolution-based ethos, which sees belief in Genesis (as real history) as a major ‘stumbling block’ to ‘progress in religion’.
		Prize Judges: Former Judges of The Templeton Prize, 30 January 2002.
	www.answersingenesis.org /docs2002/0806templeton.asp (2340 words)

	Online NewsHour: The Templeton Prize -- May 28, 1999
		Ian Barbour, a Carleton College professor emeritus, was awarded the 1999 Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion in recognition of efforts to create a dialogue between the worlds of science and religion.
		Currently, the Templeton Prize is valued at 750,000 pounds sterling, approximately 1.24 million dollars and is the world's largest annual award.
		Although there are no restrictions on how the money may be spent, most prize winners have invested their awards into the pursuits that brought them to the attention of the Templeton Foundation -- extending the legacy of the prize beyond the recognition it bestows.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/forum/june99/templeton_history.html (1029 words)

	Templeton Prize winner defends Christianity’s credibility in a scientific age
		The Templeton Foundation announced March 14 in New York City that the 2002 Templeton Prize would go to the Rev. John C. Polkinghorne, a British mathematical physicist and Anglican priest, and a key spokesperson for belief in God in an age of science, defending that faith not against science but in concert with it.
		The Templeton Prize is the world’s largest annual monetary prize given to an individual.
		Polkinghorne was nominated for the prize by Thomas F. Torrance, a Presbyterian theologian retired from the University of Edinburgh and the recipient of the 1978 prize for his own work relating science and theology.
	www.natcath.com /NCR_Online/archives/041202/041202g.htm (1005 words)

	Three Templeton prize laureates to speak on common borders of science and theology
		Three world-renowned recipients of the Templeton Prize — a cosmologist, a philosopher, and a mathematical physicist and Anglican priest — will meet in Boston on Thursday, August 19 at 8 PM to engage in a dialogue on the common borders of science and theology.
		The 2004 Templeton Prize Laureate, Dr. George F. Ellis, is a theoretical cosmologist and Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.
		Sir John Templeton, the financier who pioneered global investment strategies, founded the Templeton Prize in 1972, stipulating that its monetary value always exceed the Nobel Prizes to underscore his belief that advances in spiritual discoveries can be quantifiably more significant than those honored by the Nobels.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2004-08/jtf-ttp081704.php (793 words)

	Science & Spirit
		The world's richest academic prize is now in the hands of a modern-day Renaissance man whose maverick intellect and philosophical sensibilities have won him acclaim from his peers and accolades from the public for nearly thirty years.
		Founded in 1972 by philanthropist and global financial pioneer Sir John Templeton, the 1.4 million dollar Templeton Prize is given yearly for “progress toward research or discoveries about spiritual realities.” Barrow is the second cosmologist educated in Britain to win the prize in the last three years.
		In establishing the prize's monetary value, Sir John Templeton stipulated that it always be worth more than the Nobel Prize as a way to underscore that research and advances in spiritual discoveries can be quantifiably more significant than achievements in disciplines recognized by the Nobel.
	www.science-spirit.org /webexclusives.php?article_id=621 (1325 words)

	Templeton Prize Management
		When Sir John Templeton founded the Prize in 1972, he felt that Alfred Nobel had overlooked the most important dimensions of humankind, religion and the pursuit of spiritual growth and progress.
		For this reason, the Templeton Prize has always been larger than the Nobel Prize, reflecting Sir John Templeton's sense of importance of religion and growth in spiritual knowledge was more important than any other field of endeavor.
		The Prize is given each year in honor of a living person who represents through his or her work a remarkable spirit of inquiry to understand not only the nature of these realities, but also the nature of the divinity which gives life to these spiritual realities.
	www.canyoninstitute.org /projects/temprize.html (327 words)

	Psychology's largest prize goes to four extraordinary scientists
		And as the top, $100,000 winner of this year's Templeton Positive Psychology Prize, she is just one example of the kind of researchers Sir John Templeton hoped to promote when he helped create the largest-ever psychology prize.
		This is the first year of the prizes, which Templeton's foundation funds and APA administers to foster research in the area of positive psychology.
		Through the Templeton funding--$30,000 to use any way she wants and $70,000 to support her research--she hopes to conduct daring field studies for which she might not have gained funding through traditional channels.
	www.apa.org /monitor/julaug00/templeton.html (1690 words)

	Templeton Prize - Philosopedia
		Since 1972, the Templeton Foundation has made annual grants to a living person who, in the estimation of its judges, best exemplifies "trying various ways for discoveries and breakthroughs to expand human perceptions of divinity and to help in the acceleration of divine creativity."
		The prize is named after Sir John Templeton, an American-born British entrepreneur and businessman, who was knighted (Knight Bachelor) by Queen Elizabeth II in 1987 for his philanthropic efforts.
		Templeton was born on 29 November 1912) in Winchester, Tennessee.
	philosopedia.org /index.php?title=Templeton_Prize (414 words)

	Templeton Foundation Press: Sir John Templeton
		This site, sponsored by Templeton Foundation Press, is a celebration of the life, inspiration, and achievements of Sir John Templeton as both a success in the financial world and forward thinking leader in the field of science and religion.
		Through the John Templeton Foundation, based in West Conshohocken, Pa., he gives away approximately $40 million a year — especially to projects, college courses, books, and essays on the benefits of cooperation between science and religion.
		Sir John Templeton, a student of benefits from free competition and disciplined work habits, is not the first wealthy investor to increase his giving to religion-related causes late in life.
	www.templetonpress.org /SirJohn (472 words)

	The Blinne Blog: Scientist Wins Templeton Prize
		Showing that science is not necessarily the enemy of religion or vice versa, the Templeton Prize was awarded to cosmologist, George Ellis.
		When he created the prize in 1972, Templeton stipulated that its monetary value always exceed the Nobel Prizes to underscore his belief that advances in spiritual discoveries can be quantifiably more significant than those honored by the Nobels.
		The 2003 Templeton Prize laureate was philosopher Holmes Rolston III, widely acknowledged as the "father of environmental ethics." John Polkinghorne, a mathematical physicist and Anglican priest, won the prize in 2002, and Arthur Peacocke, a biochemist who is also an Anglican priest, received the award in 2001.
	www.blinne.org /blog/2004/03/scientist_wins_.html (1322 words)

	Physicist gets the 2005 Templeton Prize
		More formally titled the Templeton Prize for Progress Toward Research or Discoveries about Spiritual Realities, it was announced today (Wednesday, March 9) at a news conference at the Church Center for the United Nations in New York.
		Founded in 1972 by pioneering global investor and philanthropist Sir John Templeton, the prize has become the world's best known religion prize and is certainly the largest annual monetary prize given to an individual.
		In creating the prize, Templeton stipulated that it always be worth more monetarily than the Nobel Prizes to underscore his belief that research and advances in spiritual discoveries can be quantifiably more significant than those recognized by the Nobels.
	www.physlink.com /news/0316052005TempletonPrize.cfm (411 words)

	Atlas Economic Research Foundation :: The Templeton Freedom Prize For Ethics And Values
		The Templeton Freedom Prize for Ethics and Values honors non-profit research institutes that study the symbiotic relationship between free enterprise and enlightened systems of ethics and values.
		The Templeton Freedom Prize for Ethics and Values recognizes think tanks that complement or add new insights to the understanding of the ethical benefits of the free society and free economy.
		The Templeton Freedom Prize for Ethics and Values is open to privately-funded, non-profit organizations that study and/or conduct programs about the relationship between ethics and values and the institutions of a free society.
	www.atlasusa.org /V2/main/page.php?page_id=166 (407 words)

	Physics Today August 2001
		Templeton awardees are probably no more likely to compromise their scholarly standards than are NSF grantees.
		As a Templeton Prize winner, I wish to reply to the letter of Mark Friesel, not to defend myself, but to defend the Templeton Foundation against the accusation that the prize "is a bribe.
		It may be true, for example, that Templeton awardees (or, more appropriately, those who aspire to such an award) are probably no more likely to compromise their scholarly standards than are NSF grantees, but the implications of such a saying are somewhat dark and unclear.
	www.physicstoday.org /pt/vol-54/iss-8/p72b.html (1269 words)

	PC(USA) - GA215 News - Presbyterian Wins Templeton Prize
		The Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion is awarded annually for advances in the understanding of spiritual issues.
		The prize, created in 1972 by Sir John Templeton, carries a cash award of $1.2 million and is the world’s largest monetary award to an individual.
		It is philosophy’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize.
	www.pcusa.org /ga215/news/ga03010.htm (401 words)

	John Templeton Foundation
		The Templeton Prize for Social Entrepreneurship recognizes think tank efforts to mix hands-on projects to benefit the poor with work in the realm of ideas to build a stronger civil society.
		The Templeton Prize for Ethics and Values honors research institutes that study the relationship between enterprise and enlightened systems of ethics and values.
		Templeton Freedom Award Grants for Institute Excellence are given to outstanding think tanks that show great future promise, especially in difficult parts of the world that have seen few efforts to improve the understanding of the free society.
	www.templeton.org /capabilities_2004/free02B.html (240 words)

	Biography: Sir John Templeton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Sir John M. Templeton, a student of benefits from free competition and disciplined work habits, is not the first wealthy investor to increase his giving to religion-related causes late in life.
		Templeton and his foundation work on the premise that scientific principles of evolution and the idea of God as Creator are compatible.
		The annual Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion grew out of the philanthropist's belief that honors equivalent to Nobel Prizes should be bestowed on living innovators in religious action and thought.
	www.meta-library.net /bio/johnt-body.html (1194 words)

	Who Is Sir John Templeton? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Templeton revels in the fact that while some prizewinners such as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and the Rev. Billy Graham are well known, winners such as Peacocke are little known.
		Templeton was born in the small Tennessee town of Winchester in 1912.
		Templeton says his first project was his prize, one he created because he believed that the Nobel Prizes had overlooked one of humanity's most important disciplines, religion.
	www.newsmax.com /archives/articles/2001/3/20/233718.shtml (933 words)

	THE TEMPLETON PRIZE FOR PROGRESS IN RELIGION AWARDED TO BILL BRIGHT
		Since its establishment in 1972, the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion has been awarded to a living person who has shown "extraordinary originality in advancing humankind's understanding of God and/or spirituality" in any religious tradition or movement.
		When Mother Teresa was chosen as the first recipient of the Templeton Prize in 1973, she was a little-known Missionaries of Charity sister laboring in the Calcutta slums.
		The Templeton Prize itself is the world's largest financial annual award, adjusted in value each year so as to always surpass both the Pulitzer and Noble Prizes.
	www.wwcmagazine.org /1996/templeton.html (508 words)

	John D Barrow wins Templeton Prize
		The 2006 Templeton Prize has been awarded to Professor John D Barrow, eminent cosmologist and director of the Millennium Mathematics Project, the family of educational initiatives which includes Plus.
		Previous prize winners include physicist and Nobel laureate Charles H Townes, cosmologist George FR Ellis and the well-known physicist and mathematician Freeman J Dyson.
		The Templeton Prize was founded in 1972 by Sir John Templeton, and is awarded annually to a living person to encourage and honour the advancement of knowledge in spiritual matters.
	plus.maths.org /latestnews/jan-apr06/templeton/index.html (794 words)

	OpinionJournal - Taste
		The most lucrative prize on the planet--the only one that pays winners more than Nobel laureates--used to be called the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion.
		Templeton, a "dedicated Presbyterian," is a 90-year-old Tennessee native who became a celebrated stock picker and now lives in the Bahamas as a naturalized British citizen.
		The challenge for the prize in the years ahead will be to avoid sliding into a theistic mire of sloppy thinking that isn't grounded in any religious tradition.
	www.opinionjournal.com /taste/?id=110003442 (689 words)

	Templeton Prize for Religion Writing - TruthBook
		The John Templeton prize for "European Religion Writer of the Year 2004" has been awarded to Dresden freelance journalist Dr Thomas Gaertner for his articles on the life of the local church in the German city.
		Dr Tomas Gaertner accepted the prize, which acclaims the work of journalists who write about religion in the secular press with “accuracy, impartiality and with an ecumenical spirit”, at an award ceremony in the historical Church of the Three Kings in Dresden on 21 September.
		The Dresden journalist was awarded the prize for his entry which included three articles published in the daily newspaper “Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten”.
	www.truthbook.com /16442.cfm (185 words)

	Edge:THE TEMPLETON FOUNDATION: A SKEPTIC'S TAKE by John Horgan
		The prize, which Templeton stipulated should exceed the Nobel Prize in monetary value, now totals almost $1.5-million and is awarded in Buckingham Palace.
		Templeton funds have even trickled down to atheists like the physicist Steven Weinberg, who once proclaimed during a AAAS conference sponsored by the foundation in 1999, "I am all in favor of a dialogue between science and religion, but not a constructive dialogue."
		The Templeton prize-winners John Polkinghorne and John Barrow argued that the laws of physics seem fine-tuned to allow for the existence of human beings, which is the physics version of intelligent design.
	www.edge.org /3rd_culture/horgan06/horgan06_index.html (2235 words)

	Seed: John D. Barrow Wins Templeton Prize
		The winner of the annually awarded Templeton Prize receives £795,000 for efforts in scientific research or another field that stimulate progress toward expanded human perception of divinity.
		Sir John Templeton, the mutual fund pioneer and noted philanthropist, established the award in 1972.
		Previous winners of the Templeton Prize include Nobel-winning physicist Charles Townes, Mother Theresa and Soviet author and playwright Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
	www.seedmagazine.com /news/2006/03/john_d_barrow_wins_templeton_p.php (437 words)

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