John Templeton Award for Theological Promise

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 evaluates the prize nominations. While primarily a theological prize, contributions from all academic disciplines and religious traditions are considered.

Grant Amount:

$2,153,000

Start Date:

March 2006

End Date:

May 2011

Grant ID:

11892, 12195

Suite of 2 separate grants totaling $2,153,000

2010 Winners

Christopher Beeley, Walter H. Gray Associate Professor of Anglican Studies and Patristics
Yale University Divinity School and Berkeley Divinity School at Yale (New Haven, Connecticut)

Dominic Doyle, Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology
Boston College's School of Theology and Ministry (Chestnut Hill, Massachussets)

Brent Hege, Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and Religion
Butler University (Indianapolis, Indiana)

Paul Dafydd Jones, Assistant Professor of Western Religious Thought
Department of Religious Studies, University of Virginia (Charlottesville, Virginia)

John Kaufman, Consultant, Continuing education for clergy in the Church of Norway
The Norwegian Ministers' Association (Presteforeningen) (Oslo, Norway)

Chris Keith, Assistant Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins
Lincoln Christian University (Lincoln, Illinois)

Wai Hang Ng, Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion and Philosophy
Hong Kong Baptist University (Hong Kong)

Christophe Nihan, Associate Professor for Biblical Studies
University of Lausanne (Lausanne, Switzerland)

Christian Polke, Research Assistant, Department of Humanities, Institute for Systematic Theology
University of Hamburg (Hamburg, Germany)

Benjamin Schließer, Pastor-in-training (Vikar) in Lichtenstein (Lutheran Evangelical Church of Württemberg) and Assistant Head of Studies (Studienassistent) at the Preaching Seminar in Stuttgart of the Protestant Church of Württemberg (Stuttgart, Germany)

Jeffrey Stackert, Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible
University of Chicago Divinity School (Chicago, Illinois)

Alexandra Wörn, Curate, Evangelical Lutheran Church of Württemberg (Evangelische Landeskirche in Württemberg) (Stuttgart, Germany)

2009 Winners

Whitney Albert Bauman, Assistant Professor of Religion and Science
Department of Religious Studies, Florida International University (Miami, Florida)

J. Todd Billings, Assistant Professor of Reformed Theology
Western Theological Seminary (Holland, Michigan)

Markus Höfner, Postdoctoral teaching assistant
Faculty of Protestant Theology, Ruhr University Bochum (Bochum, Germany)

Alex P. Jassen, Assistant Professor of Early Judaism
University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota)

Willis Jackson Jenkins, Margaret A. Farley Assistant Professor of Social Ethics
Yale Divinity School, and Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (New Haven, Connecticut)

Charlotte Köckert, Postdoctoral Position (research and teaching) in Church History of Late Antiquity and Medieval Times
Faculty of Theology, University of Heidelberg (Heidelberg, Germany)

Marius Timmann Mjaaland, Postdoctoral research fellow
Coordinator of the John Templeton Award for Theological Promise - FIIT
Philosophy of Religion in Northern Europe (PRINE)
President of the Nordic Society for Philosophy of Religion (NSPR)
Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo (Oslo, Norway)

Paul T. Nimmo, Lecturer in Theology
New College (Edinburgh, Scotland, UK)

Alyssa Lyra H. Pitstick, Assistant Professor of Religion
Hope College (Holland, Michigan)

C. Kavin Rowe, Assistant Professor of New Testament
Duke University Divinity School (Durham, North Carolina)

Jan Stievermann, Junior Professor of American Studies
University of Tübingen (Tübingen, Germany)

Claudia Welz, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Center for Subjectivity Research
University of Copenhagen (Copenhagen, Denmark)

2008 Winners

Dörte Bester, Pastor and Assistant Head of Studies
Seminary for the Training for Ministry, and the Centre for Pedagogy and Theology of the Lutheran Evangelical Church of Württemberg (Stuttgart, Germany)

Gönke Eberhardt, postdoctoral student
Theological Faculty, University of Tübingen (Tübingen, Germany)

Michael Stephen Hogue
Assistant Professor of Theology
Meadville Lombard Theological School (Chicago, Illinois)

Henning Hupe, Teacher of religious studies, and French language and literature
Schwetzinger Gymnasium, and Wissenschaftlich-Theologisches Seminar (Heidelberg, Germany)

Tomi Petteri Karttunen, Pastor (Kangasala) and Lecturer in Systematic Theology
University of Joensuu (Joensuu, Finland)

Benjamin Lazier, Assistant Professor of History and Humanities
Reed College (Portland, Oregon)
Fellow at Stanford Humanities Center (Stanford, California)

Bo Karen Lee, Assistant Professor of Spirituality and Historical Theology
Princeton Theological Seminary (Princeton, New Jersey)

Hanne Løland, Associate Professor of Old Testament Studies
MF Norwegian School of Theology (Oslo, Norway)

Yujin Nagasawa, Lecturer
Department of Philosophy, University of Birmingham (Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK)
Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Australian National University (Canberra, Australia)

Heike Springhart, postdoctoral teaching assistant
Pastor of the Evangelical Church of Baden, and Wissenschaftlich-Theologisches Seminar (Heidelberg, Germany)

Martin Wendte, Assistant Professor
Institut für Hermeneutik und Dialog der Kulturen (IHDK), Faculty of Protestant Theology, University of Tübingen (Tübingen, Germany)

Jacob L. Wright, Assistant Professor
Candler School of Theology and the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies
Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia)

2007 Winners

Christine Büchner
Institute of Dogmatics and History of Dogmatics
Theological Faculty, University of Tübingen (Tübingen, Germany)

Julie Canlis
Methlick Parish Kirk
University of St. Andrews (St. Andrews, Scotland)

Alexander Dietz, Scientific Assistant
Department of Theology/Ethics
University of Heidelberg (Heidelberg, Germany)

Eva Harasta, Postdoctoral Teaching Assistant
Department of Theology
University of Bamberg (Bamberg, Germany)

Eunny Lee, Assistant Professor
Princeton Theological Seminary (Princeton, New Jersey)

Timothy Ling, Ministry Development Officer
Canterbury diocese of the Church of England (Canterbury, UK)

Nathan MacDonald, Lecturer in Old Testament and Director of Operations
University of St Andrews (St. Andrews, Scotland, UK)

Lidija Matoševic, Lecturer in Systematic and Ecumenical Theology
Theological Faculty
University of Zagreb (Zagreb, Croatia)

Daniel Munteanu, Associate Lecturer in Systematic Theology
Department of Theology
University of Bamberg (Bamberg, Germany)

Karin Scheiber
Institute for Hermeneutics and Philosophy of Religion
University of Zürich (Zürich, Switzerland)

Ulrike Vollmer, Teaching Fellow
Department of Theology and Religious Studies
University of Wales, Lampeter (Lampeter, UK)

Graham Wood, Associate Lecturer in Philosophy
University of Tasmania (Launceston, Australia)