Sample Grants
Grant Title Award Date Grant Amount
 
John Templeton Award for Theological Promise

Michael Welker, Professor of Theology
Universitat Heidelberg (Heidelberg, Germany)

This grant selects and awards annual prizes to the 12 best post-doctoral young scholars globally on the basis of their doctoral dissertations related to the topic of God and spirituality.  An international and inter-religious panel of 25 judges evaluate the pirze nominations.  While primarily a theological prize, contributions from all academic disciplines and religious traditions are considered.
 March 2006 $3,533,000
Religious Evolution Research

Professor Robert N. Bellah, Elliott Professor of Sociology Emeritus
Department of Sociology
University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley CA)

This grant provides support for a book Professor Bellah is writing on religious evolution from prehistory to the Axial Age. His research will primarily focus on Israel, Greece and China.
 May 2004 $22,500
Does God Matter? An Interpretation of Whitehead's Philosophy as a Contribution to a Theology of God's Agency

Professor Dr. Palmyre M. F. Oomen, Director of Theology and Science Section
Heyendall Institute
Radboud University Nijmegen (Nijmegen The Netherlands)

This grant helped support the translation of the 1998 book, Doet God ertoe?, from Dutch to English. Does God Matter?: An Interpretation of Whitehead's Philosophy as a Contribution to a Theology of God's Agency was accepted for publication by Peeters Publishers as part of the series Studies in Philosophical Theology.
 January 2003 $12,000
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