Sir John Templeton: Successful stock investor who gave millions to encourage the rational...
                   
independent.co.uk     09-Jul-2008          

John Templeton was a highly successful stock investor who, starting in 1937, made a fortune on Wall Street and by mid life had become a philanthropist noted for encouraging rational exploration of spirituality. His name is synonymous with the annual Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion which this year stood at £820,000 and was awarded to the Polish physicist and theologian Father Michael Heller. The John Templeton Foundation, founded in 1987 currently dispenses tens of millions of dollars a year, mainly to university-based research projects. At a time when scientists like Professor Richard Dawkins have sought to challenge the reconciliation between religion and science, Templeton's foundation leads the world in funding research that seeks connections between science, spirituality and faith. Templeton once stated: "If... [read full story]                    


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