“Your first love never leaves you, and JTF is positioned right in the middle of the history of ideas,” he told Religion News Service in an email.
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.”
He will miss his colleagues at CT, saying they are “vibrant, intelligent, and passionately committed to living a life of faithfulness.”
“It was mine to serve CT for a time, but the ministry has a far grander story that began long before me and will endure long after me,” he “The future for CT is as bright as it’s ever been.”
(This article originally appeared here and has been updated with more comments from Dalrymple)
