Templeton Lecture on Religion and World Affairs

FPRI thanks John M. Templeton, Jr., M.D. for sponsoring this series.

The Templeton Lecture on Religion and World Affairs was established in 1996, with a gift from John M. Templeton, Jr., M.D., president of the John Templeton Foundation. In 1995, Dr. Templeton retired from his medical practice to serve full-time as president of the Foundation. After receiving a B.A. from Yale University, Dr. Templeton earned his medical degree from Harvard Medical School. He trained in pediatric surgery under Dr. C. Everett Koop at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. After serving two years in the U.S. Navy, in 1977 he returned to CHOP, where he served on the staff as pediatric surgeon and trauma program director. He also served as professor of pediatric surgery at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Templeton has published numerous papers in medical and professional journals, in addition to two books, A Searcher's Life and Thrift and Generosity: The Joy of Giving.