Dr. Lawler Receives Weaver Award

Dr. Peter Augustine Lawler, Dana Professor of Government at Berry, received the 2007 Richard M. Weaver Prize for Scholarly Letters on Friday October 19 from Dr. Robert Preston of Belmont Abbey College in Belmont, North Carolina.





After the award Dr. Lawler delivered his address on the Crisis of the Self-Evidence of Truth, a powerful critique of the Lockean and Darwinian conceptions of man and a call for the resolution of the crisis of self-evidence through a return to theology.







The distinguished speakers at the two-day conference included Patrick Deneen (Georgetown University), Marc Guerra (Ave Maria University), Mark Henrie (Intercollegiate Studies Institute), Thomas Hibbs (Baylor University), Mary Keys (University of Notre Dame), Daniel Mahoney (Assumption College), and Robert Preston (Belmont Abbey College).