Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion, 1994

A million-dollar purse awarded at Buckingham Palace. Michael Novak’s Templeton address in Westminster Abbey: “Awakening from Nihilism”

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Citation for Templeton Prize
No other philosopher or theologian has given such sustained attention to economic realities. No other major figure has given such sustained attention to the moral and religious dimension of the free economy. Novak is likely to be regarded as a progenitor of a new discipline, the theology of economics.