Templeton Foundation Prize for Progress in Religion

The Templeton Prize, an award to encourage progress in religion, was established in 1972 by Sir John Templeton, a Tennessee-born financial analyst and Presbyterian layman, and first presented in 1973. Its value has increased over the years to nearly $1 million, depending on exchange rates.

1973: Mother Teresa of Calcutta, founder, the Missionaries of Charity

1974: Brother Roger, founder and prior, the Taize Community in France

1975: Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, former president of India and Oxford Professor of Eastern Religions and Ethics

1976: H. E. Leon Joseph Cardinal Suenens, Archbishop of Malines-Brussels

1977: Chiara Lubich, founder of the Focolare Movement, Italy

1978: Prof. Thomas F. Torrance, president of International Academy of Religion and Sciences, Scotland

1979: Nikkyo Niwano, founder of Rissho Kosel Kai and World Conferences on Religion and Peace, Japan

1980: Prof. Ralph Wendell Burhoe, founder and editor of Zygon, Chicago

1981: Dame Cicely Saunders, originator of Modern Hospice Movement, England

1982: The Rev. Dr. Billy Graham, founder, The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association

1983: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, U.S.

1984: The Rev. Michael Bourdeaux, founder, Keston College, England

1985: Sir Alister Hardy, Oxford, England

1986: Rev. Dr. James McCord, Princeton, N.J.

1987: Rev. Professor Stanley L. Jaki, Princeton, N.J.

1988: Dr. Inamullah Khan, secretary-general, World Muslim Congress

1989: The Very Reverend Lord MacLeod of the Iona Community, Scotland, and Professor Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, Starnberg, West Germany

1990: Baba Amte, India, and Professor Charles Birch, Sydney, Australia

1991: The Rt. Hon. Lord Jakobovits, chief rabbi of Great Britain and the Commonwealth

1992: Dr. Kyung-Chik Han, founder, Seoul's Young Nak Presbyterian Church

1993: Charles W. Colson, founder, Prison Fellowship, Virginia

1994: Michael Novak, scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C.

1995: Dr. Paul Davies, professor, University of Adelaide, Australia

1996: William R. “Bill” Bright, president and founder, Campus Crusade for Christ International, California

1997: Pandurang Shastri Athavale, founder and leader of Swadhyaya, a spiritual movement credited with improving the lives of 20 million people

1998: Sir Sigmund Sternberg, founder and chairman, Sternberg Centre for Judaism, London

1999: Ian Barbour, professor emeritus, Carleton College, Minnesota

2000: Freeman J. Dyson, professor emeritus, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J.

2001: Arthur Peacocke, physical biochemist and Anglican priest, Oxford, England

2002: John C. Polkinghorne, mathematical physicist and Anglican priest, Cambridge, England

2003: Holmes Rolston III, professor of philosophy and Presbyterian minister, Colorado State University

2004: George F. R. Ellis, professor of applied mathematics, University of Cape Town, South Africa

2005: Charles Hard Townes, professor of physics, University of California, Berkeley, California

2006: John D. Barrow, professor of mathematical sciences, University of Cambridge, England

2007: Charles Taylor, professor of law and philosophy, Northwestern University, Illinois

2008: Michael Heller, professor of philosophy, Pontifical Academy of Theology, Cracow, Poland

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