Tim Dalrymple leaves Christianity Today to become new president of Templeton Foundation

[TBC: For years we have seen how Sir John Templeton has been part of the seduction that draws believers from the Truth and Eternal promises of the Lord. Instead, there are a growing number of those who fail to see what Templeton so often “preached. Apostasy, like evil clearly “never sleeps.”]

Tim Dalrymple leaves Christianity Today to become new president of Templeton Foundation

Tim Dalrymple, currently the CEO and president of Christianity Today magazine, will become the third president of the Templeton Foundation, based in West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, at the end of July. The foundation, which controls more than $3 billion in assets and distributes more than $130 million in grants each year, funds “interdisciplinary research and catalyzes conversations that enable people to pursue lives of meaning and purpose.”

“We are working to create a world where people are curious about the wonders of the universe, free to pursue lives of meaning and purpose, and motivated by great and selfless love,” reads the foundation’s job description for the CEO.”

Ryan Burge, an associate professor of political science at Eastern Illinois University who studies the religious landscape, said Dalrymple’s hiring at Templeton made sense. Dalrymple has the academic credentials and the institutional leadership experience the role requires — along with a sincere interest in spirituality and an active faith practice.

Dalrymple, though he is an evangelical Christian, is not a culture warrior.

“There is still a lot of respect in America for religious people who really live out their convictions but are not trying to beat you over the head with their convictions,” Burge said.

Dalrymple said he sees overlap between his doctoral work at Harvard, where he studied religion and the nature of suffering, and the mission of the foundation. He called Templeton’s mission “soul stirring.”

“We live in a world hungry for purpose, where the lines between science, spirituality, and moral imagination are converging in new ways,” he said. “The insights we gain and decisions we make in the next ten years could have profound civilizational effects.”

He said that his work at Templeton will be inspired by the same kinds of questions that the foundation’s founder pursued and will follow Sir John Templeton’s “sense of awe before the majesty and mystery of the universe.”

Dalrymple said the foundation “invests in human dignity and flourishing, in character and moral formation, amid rapid social and technological change.”

“I find all these questions fascinating, important, and deeply spiritual,” he said. “In an age of artificial intelligence, synthetic biology, and interreligious conflict, our answers to these questions will have profound consequences for the whole of humankind.”

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[TBC: Templeton very clearly stated he believed that “everything is God.” As Dave Hunt pointed out, “It is pantheism. It is also a basic tenet of cults such as Science of Mind, Religious Science, and Christian Science. What they teach is basically the same as Peale’s positive thinking and Schuller’s possibility thinking, which explains why the latter would promote it in his magazine. Here is how “nothing exists except God” works in the mind science and positivity/possibility thinking arena: God is good and God is all. Therefore, all is good. Thus, anything that isn’t good—sin, sickness, suffering, death, etc.—is not real but a delusion of one’s negative thinking. The way to be delivered from these negative delusions is to become a positive or possibility thinker.

“Our deliverance from sin and death comes not by denying the reality of these evils through the power of the mind, but by faith in Christ, who suffered the agony of the Cross and paid the penalty which His own justice had pronounced upon sin. He died for our sins and “was raised again for our justification” (Romans:4:25Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.
See All...). If sin and death don’t exist, then the death of Christ for our sins and His resurrection are merely allegories and not real events—contrary to the historical facts” (In Defense of the Faith).

Dalrymple said nothing about the Gospel gained by the sacrifice of the Lord. Instead, he spoke of a modernized version of the Tower of Babel “We are working to create a world where people are curious about the wonders of the universe, free to pursue lives of meaning and purpose, and motivated by great and selfless love…”

All this is just an echo of Genesis:11:4And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
See All..., “And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.”]