The annual Winifred E. Weter Faculty Award Lecture for Meritorious Scholarship provides a public platform form which the claims of the liberal arts in the Christian university are espoused. Delivered each year by a SPU faculty member selected by the Faculty Affairs Committee, the Weter Lecture honors Winifred E. Weter, SPU professor emerita of classics. Her teaching career spanning 40 years (1935-75) exemplifies a life of Christian character and integrity. Her love for the study of classical languages and literature inspired a similar enthusiasm in thousands of her students, and this lecture continues that tradition of inspiration.
Submissions from 2024
Redeeming Korean Constructs of Han, Nunchi, and Jeong: Lessons for Interpersonal and Communal Flourishing, Paul Youngbin Kim
Submissions from 2023
20 Years After the Iraq War: Stories and Perspectives, Alissa Walter
Submissions from 2022
Priests of a Fallen Creation: The Temple, Natural Theology, and Ecology in Dialogue, Eric Long
Artificial Intelligence and the Apocalyptic Imagination: The Ends of Artificial Agency, Michael J. Paulus Jr.
Submissions from 2021
Priceless: Art and Luxury in a Low-Res World, Katie Kresser
Submissions from 2019
The Inherently Quantitative Moral Landscape of our Global Neighborhood, Lane Seeley
Submissions from 2018
The Artists Will Be My Priests: A Theology of the Iconic Body, Brian Bantum
Submissions from 2017
The World is Our Parish: Struggling with Catholicity in Our Western Context, Daniel Castelo
Submissions from 2016
Reconciliation as Holistic Redemptive Transformation, Mike Langford
Submissions from 2015
Sects and Gender: Reaction and Resistance to Cultural Change, Jennifer McKinney
Submissions from 2014
Philosophical Reflects on the Atonement, Stephan Layman
Submissions from 2013
Youth, Faith, and the Christian University after Moral Therapeutic Deism, Jeff Keuss
Submissions from 2012
Resurrection of the Body?: Physicalism and the Possibility of Life After Death, Rebekah Rice
Submissions from 2011
A Two-talent Servant in a Five-talent World: Christian vs. Secular Views of Human Potential, Paul Yost
Submissions from 2010
The Chemical Constraints on Creation: Natural Theology and Narrative Resonance, Ben McFarland
Submissions from 2009
Toward a Theology of Mental Illness, Marcia Webb
Submissions from 2008
Multiplying Division: A Figural Reading of the Story of the Levite's Concubine, Frank Spina
Submissions from 2007
Evangelicals in American Film, Todd Rendleman
Submissions from 2006
Martin Buber's I and Thou: Implications for Reclaiming the Soul in Organizations, Margaret Diddams
Submissions from 2005
The People of Promise and the People of Hope: A Response to the American Dream, William Woodward
Submissions from 2004
Puritanism Meets Greek Orthodoxy, Rick Steele
Submissions from 2003
Christian Humanism: A Faith for All Seasons, Gregory Wolfe Ph.D.
Christian Humanism: A Faith for All Seasons, Gregory Wolfe and Michael Hamilton
Submissions from 2002
In a Global World, Who Is My Neighbor?, Kevin Neuhouser and Mark Edwards
Submissions from 2001
The Neuropsychology of Awareness, Jay M. Uomoto
Submissions from 2000
Enigmas of Science and Wisdom from Plato to Derrida, Janet Leslie Blumberg
Submissions from 1999
Academic Freedom at Christian Colleges and Universities, Mark D. Walhout
Submissions from 1998
Geo Graphs: Description of the Earth in Four Spiritual Maps, Kathleen Braden PhD
Submissions from 1997
Livingstone, Darwin, and Tocqueville on Global Frontiers, Donald C. Holsinger
Submissions from 1996
The Conscience of Psychotherapy, Don MacDonald
Submissions from 1995
Disorder in Science and Religion: A Pedestrian Theology of Irony, Roger H. Anderson
Submissions from 1994
To "Labor for the Conversion of the Heathen Who Came in Our Midst": Protestants and the Chinese in Nineteenth Century America, Daniel Liestman
Submissions from 1993
The Ethic of Caring: The Moral Response to Suffering, Emily Wurster Hitchens and Lilyan Snow
Submissions from 1992
The Role of the Church in Defeating Communism and Rebuilding a Capitalist Economy in Eastern Europe, Joanna Poznanska
Submissions from 1991
Sexual Depravity, Doctrinal Error, and Character Assassination in the Fourth Century, Alberto Ferreiro
Submissions from 1990
Reconsidering Higher Animal Intelligence, Michael D. Roe
Submissions from 1989
Canaanite Genocide and Amalekite Genocide and the God of Love, Dwight Van Winkle
Submissions from 1988
Theopraxis, Bruce McKeown
Submissions from 1987
Gustav Mahler's Response to Schopenhauer and the Philosophy of Negation, Eric A. Hanson
Submissions from 1986
C.S. Lewis: Defender of the Permanent Things, Michael H. MacDonald
Submissions from 1985
Forgiveness and Truth: Literary Reflections of Christian Ethics, Thomas Trzyna
Submissions from 1984
Nehemiah: Agent of Change, Kenneth D. Tollefson
Submissions from 1983
The Role of Physics in the Christian Liberal Arts University, James H. Crichton
Submissions from 1982
Genesis II: Man Becomes as God, Grayson L. Capp
Submissions from 1981
The Multiple Gospel Canon, Eugene E. Lemcio
Submissions from 1980
Is the Current Crisis Worth Understanding?, Ronald B. Palmer
Submissions from 1979
Jane Austen's Novel of Manners and the Liberal Arts in 1979, Joyce Quiring Erickson
Submissions from 1978
Becoming: A Historian's Prospectus for Integrated Learning, William Woodward
Submissions from 1977
The Trade of Tyre: Anomaly of the Ancient World, Ronald R. Boyce
Submissions from 1976
The Rhetorical Effect of an 18th Century British Tractate on the American War of Independence, William A. Hansen
Submissions from 1975
A Christian Ecology of Death, Loren E. Wiklinson