{"id":2555,"date":"2007-03-15T13:38:43","date_gmt":"2007-03-15T13:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2007\/03\/and-the-winner-is.html"},"modified":"2007-03-15T13:38:43","modified_gmt":"2007-03-15T13:38:43","slug":"and-the-winner-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/03\/and-the-winner-is.html","title":{"rendered":"And the winner is…"},"content":{"rendered":"

The winner of the 2007 Templeton Prize has been announced. The prize:<\/a> <\/p>\n

\n
\n

How might humankind’s spiritual information and advancement increase by
\nmore than a hundredfold? This is the challenge presented by the
\nTempleton Prize. Just as knowledge in science, medicine, cosmology and
\nother disciplines has grown exponentially during the past century, the
\nTempleton Prize honors and encourages the many entrepreneurs trying
\nvarious ways for discoveries and breakthroughs to expand human
\nperceptions of divinity and to help in the acceleration of divine
\ncreativity.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Past winners have included<\/a> Michael Novak, Charles Colson, Stanley Jaki, Billy Graham, Chiara Lubich (Focolare Movement), Cicely Saunders (hospice movement), Brother Roger (Taize), Mother Teresa, nad various scientists, including John Polkinghorne. This year’s awardee is Canadian (and Catholic) philosopher Charles Taylor, who teaches at Northwestern.<\/a> From the Catholic Register:<\/a> <\/p>\n

\n
\n

\u201cA blindness to the spiritual dimension of human life makes us
\nincapable of exploring issues which are vital to our lives,\u201d said the law and
\nphilosophy professor at Northwestern University in Chicago, Ill., on winning the
\nprize. The announcement on Taylor being named to receive the award was made
\nMarch 14.<\/p>\n

Taylor will formally receive the prize from Prince Philip, duke of
\nEdinburgh, at Buckingham Palace in London on May 2. <\/p>\n

Taylor\u2019s career of dissent from post-Enlightenment, secular
\nthinking began in the 1950s while at Oxford studying under philosopher Isaac
\nBerlin. His first attack on secular rationalism was a doctoral thesis which
\ncritiqued psychological behaviorism, published as The Explanation of
\nBehaviour<\/em> in 1964.<\/p>\n

snip<\/em><\/p>\n

In the 1999 book A Catholic Modernity?<\/em>, based on 1997
\nMarianist Lectures delivered in Dayton, Ohio, Taylor declared that the Catholic
\nChurch could find its place within the modern world by seeing Western modernity
\nas one among the many civilizations in which Christianity has been preached and
\npracticed. <\/p>\n

He warned against a total identification of Catholicism with
\nEuropean civilization because it would blunt the Christian message. On the other
\nhand, rejecting modernity as the enemy of the Christian faith similarly narrows
\nthe possibilities for the Christian message. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere can never be a total fusion of the faith and any particular
\nsociety, and the attempt to achieve it is dangerous for the faith,\u201d Taylor
\nwrote. <\/p>\n

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