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From soul science to spiritual information: John Templeton on science and its religious potential
- Abstract:
- John Templeton's philanthropic organisations provide funding for research at the frontiers of the natural and human sciences. That funding is consistent with Templeton's longstanding personal interest in science. This article examines why Templeton, a world-renowned investor, was so interested in science. Templeton's writings indicate that science mattered primarily because of its profound religious and theological potential. By promoting a variety of ideas about how science might interact with and be beneficial to religion, Templeton sought to catalyse interest in and appreciation for science's religious potential, rather than to defend a specific view about how that potential should be understood.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1080/14746700.2022.2155908
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- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Journal:
- Theology and Science More from this journal
- Volume:
- 21
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 10-28
- Publication date:
- 2022-12-30
- Acceptance date:
- 2021-11-10
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1474-6719
- ISSN:
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1474-6700
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- Copyright holder:
- Peter N Jordan
- Copyright date:
- 2022
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- © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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