Templeton approach to grantmaking Annotations: projects likely to generate a significant return on investment We try to give great minds the space and resources to stretch their imaginations. Interest in Cross disciplinary approach to big questions detailed grant proposals and comprehensive expert review. we try to get involved early enough in people’s caree […]
Project description: The challenges that moral and natural evils pose for belief in the existence of a loving God have been collected under the name "the problem of evil." In its most general form, the problem of evil concerns the relation between God and the broken world around us. If God is all-powerful and all-loving, whence evil? Activities inc […]
Research project combines three disciplines to better understand character - psychology, theology and philosophy. Seeks to answer the following questions: (i) Do character traits such as honesty or compassion really exist? (ii) If they do exist, how prevalent are they, and what is their underlying psychological nature? (iii) Should character traits such as […]
Annotations: the "basic forces, concepts, and realities" governing the universe and humankind's place in the universe fundamental scientific notions, including complexity, emergence, evolution, infinity, and time In the moral and spiritual sphere, his interests extended to such basic phenomena as altruism, creativity, free will, generosity, gr […]