The Rev. Benjamin John King, assistant professor of church history at the School of Theology at Sewanee, and recent Episcopal Cafe Essayist, was awarded a John Templeton Award for Theological Promise.
Read his Episcopal Cafe essay, “John Henry Newman and the bending and shaping of church history” on John Newman HERE:
Sewanee professor receives 2011 John Templeton Award for Theological Promise
The Rev. Benjamin John King, assistant professor of church history for the School of Theology at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, is one of 12 post-doctoral scholars who have received the 2011 John Templeton Award for Theological Promise.
The award will be presented to King at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, on May 20, 2011.
“I haven’t stopped smiling since I heard the news,” King said in a Sewanee press release. “I look forward to meeting the other award recipients at the ceremony in Heidelberg. It will be great to put Sewanee on the map for a new generation of scholars.”
Annually, 12 post-doctoral scholars from all over the world are awarded $10,000 each for the best doctoral dissertation or first post-doctoral book related to the topic “God and Spirituality.” King was recognized for his book, “Newman and the Alexandrian Fathers,” Oxford University Press, 2009. The book analyzes the way in which John Henry Cardinal Newman, a 19th century cleric and theologian, altered his account of church history and reshaped his own theology to conform to the popes of his day, the release said.