The Templeton Prize for Progress Toward Research or Discoveries about Spiritual Realities was until 2001 awarded for Progress in Religion. 2001: A Space Odyssey. ...

The Templeton Prize was established in 1972 and is awarded annually by the Templeton Foundation to a living person who, in the estimation of the 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," ...including research in love, creativity, purpose, infinity, intelligence, thanksgiving and prayer. 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... The John Templeton Foundation was established in 1987 by international investment banker John Templeton; it is usually referred to as the Templeton Foundation. Its mission, according to its website, is to pursue new insights at the boundary between theology and science through a rigorous, open-minded and empirically focused methodology...

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. John Marks Templeton was born on 29 November 1912, in the town of Winchester, Tennessee. ... Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor), born 21 April 1926, is the Queen regnant of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Antigua and Barbuda...

The monetary value of the prize (795,000 GBP in 2003) is adjusted so that it is at least the equal of the Nobel Prizes. The pound sterling is the official currency of the United Kingdom (UK). ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ...

Prize winners

• 1973 - Mother Teresa of Calcutta
• 1974 - Frère Roger, founder of the Taizé Community
• 1975 - Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, President of India
• 1976 - Leon Joseph Cardinal Suenens
• 1977 - Chiara Lubich, founder of the Focolare Movement
• 1978 - Thomas Torrance
• 1979 - Rev. Nikkyo Niwano
• 1980 - Ralph Wendell Burhoe, founder of Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science
• 1981 - Cicely Saunders, hospice founder
• 1982 - Billy Graham, evangelist
• 1983 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Soviet dissident novelist
• 1984 - Rev. Michael Bourdeaux
• 1985 - Alister Hardy, founder of the Religious Experience Research Centre
• 1986 - Rev. James I. McCord of the Princeton Theological Seminary
• 1987 - Stanley Jaki
• 1988 - Dr. Inamullah Khan
• 1989 - Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, physicist, and Lord MacLeod of Fuinary, founder of the Iona Community
• 1990 - Baba Amte and L. Charles Birch
• 1991 - Rabbi Immanuel Jakobovits
• 1992 - Kyung-Chik Han
• 1993 - Charles Colson, founder of the Prison Fellowship
• 1994 - Michael Novak, philosopher and diplomat
• 1995 - Paul Davies, theoretical physicist
• 1996 - Bill Bright, founder of Campus Crusade for Christ
• 1997 - Pandurang Shastri Athavale
• 1998 - Sigmund Sternberg, philanthropist
• 1999 - Ian Barbour
• 2000 - Freeman Dyson, physicist
• 2001 - Rev. Arthur Peacocke
• 2002 - Rev. John Polkinghorne
• 2003 - Holmes Rolston III
• 2004 - George Ellis, cosmologist
• 2005 - Charles Townes, Nobel laureate , physicist (inventions include the maser and laser)

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Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan (September 5, 1888 – April 17, 1975) is best known as the man who introduced the thinking of western idealist philosophers into Indian thought. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ... Chiara Lubich Chiara Lubich was born in 1920 in Trent, Italy. ... Founded 1943 in Trento, northern Italy by Chiara Lubich as a religious movement, the Focolare Movement, though primarily Roman Catholic, now has strong links to the major Christian denominations and other religions and even those with no religion. ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... Thomas Forsyth Torrance (1913- ) is a 20th century Christian theologian born to Scottish missionary parents in Chengtu, Szechuan, China. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science is an academic journal published by Blackwell Publishing Limited of Oxford, England. ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Dame Cicely Saunders Dame Cicely Mary Strode Saunders, OM, DBE (22 June 1918–14 July 2005) was a prominent British nurse, physician and writer, involved with many international universities. ... Palliative care is any form of medical care or treatment that concentrates on reducing the severity of the symptoms of a disease or slows its progress rather than providing a cure. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The neutrality of this article is disputed. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (Russian: ; born December 11, 1918) is a Russian novelist, dramatist and historian. ... Soviet redirects here. ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year. ... Sir Alister Hardy (1896 - 1985) was an Oxford-educated marine biologist, expert on zooplankton and marine ecosystems. ... The Religious Experience Research Centre was founded by the distinguished marine biologist Professor Alister Hardy FRS in 1969 as The Religious Experience Research Unit. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The steeple of Alexander Hall Princeton Theological Seminary is one of the worlds leading institutions for graduate theological education and home of the largest theological library in the United States. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Stanley L. Jaki (b. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (born 28 June 1912) is a German physicist. ... George Fielden MacLeod (June 17, 1895 - September, 1991), the Lord MacLeod of Fuinary. ... The Iona Community, founded in 1938 by the Rev George MacLeod, is an ecumenical Christian community of men and women from different walks of life and different traditions in the Christian church that is committed to seeking new ways of living the gospel of Jesus in todays world. ... This article is about the year. ... Murlidhar Devidas Amte (born December 24, 1914), or Baba Amte, as he is fondly known, was born in Wardha in a family of jagirdars. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Immanuel Jakobovits, also Baron Jakobovits (8 February 1921 - 31 October 1999) was the Orthodox Judaism Chief Rabbi of Great Britain and the Commonwealth from 1967 to 1991. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... Booking photos of Charles Colson, 1974 . Charles Wendell Chuck Colson (born October, 1931) was the chief counsel for President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1973. ... Prison Fellowship International (PFI) is an international non-governmental organisation (NGO) comprised of national Prison Fellowship (PF) organisations from 112 countries. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... Michael Novak (born September 9, 1933) is a conservative Roman Catholic American philosopher and diplomat. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Paul Charles William Davies (born April 22, 1946) is a British-born, internationally acclaimed physicist, writer and broadcaster, who holds the position of Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Australian Centre for Astrobiology at Macquarie University, Sydney. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Bill and Vonette Bright, 1951 Dr. William R. Bill Bright (October 19, 1921 _ July 19, 2003) was an American evangelist. ... Campus Crusade for Christ is an interdenominational Christian mission organization, focusing on evangelism and discipleship in over 190 countries around the world. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Pandurang Shastri Vaijnath Athavale (1920-2003, affectionately known as dadaji, meaning grandfather or elder brother) was an Indian guru and social reformer who created the Swadhyay movement in India. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Ian Graeme Barbour He was born in Beijing, 1923. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... Freeman Dyson in San Francisco in 2005 (Photo: Jacob Appelbaum) Freeman John Dyson (born December 15, 1923) is an English-born American physicist and mathematician, famous for his work in quantum mechanics, nuclear weapons design and policy, and for his serious theorizing in futurism and science fiction concepts, including the... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... Dr. Arthur Peacock was born in 1924. ... 2002 (MMII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... John Polkinghorne (October 16, 1930 - ) is a British scientist and theologian. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Biography Holmes Rolston III is University Distinguished Professor of philosophy at Colorado State University. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... George Ellis is the Distinguished Professor of Complex Systems at the University of Cape Town (South Africa), in the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Charles Hard Townes (born July 28, 1915) is an American physicist and educator. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... A physicist is a scientist trained in physics. ... A Hindu (archaic Hindoo) is an adherent of philosophies and scriptures of Hinduism, also known as Sanatan (सनातन) Dharma or Vedic Dharma. ... As a noun, Christian is an appellation and moniker deriving from the appellation Christ, which many people associate exclusively with Jesus of Nazareth. ... A replica of an ancient statue found among the ruins of a temple at Sarnath Buddhism is a philosophy based on the teachings of the Buddha, Siddhārtha Gautama, a prince of the Shakyas, whose lifetime is traditionally given as 566 to 486 BCE. It had subsequently been accepted by... A Muslim (Arabic: مسلم) (sometimes also spelled Moslem) is an adherent of Islam. ...

External links

• Templeton Foundation
• Templeton Prize
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