{"id":1644,"date":"2020-08-24T09:38:37","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T14:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/?p=1644"},"modified":"2020-08-28T10:03:22","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T15:03:22","slug":"virtual-restoration-day-to-feature-recorded-lecture-by-dr-douglas-a-foster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/2020\/08\/24\/virtual-restoration-day-to-feature-recorded-lecture-by-dr-douglas-a-foster\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Restoration Day to feature recorded lecture by Dr. Douglas A. Foster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1645 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/files\/2020\/08\/Packer_Forum_Opening-51-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Abilene Christian University and its <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/digital-research\/#.X0PN_2pKhEI\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Center for Restoration Studies<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> will host Restoration Day 2020 on September 7. Started in 2019, Restoration Day serves to commemorate the rich heritage of the Stone-Campbell Movement by highlighting important persons, events, and ideas from this <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/?s=restoration+movement&amp;submit=Search#.X0POWmpKhEJ\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Restoration Movement<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> tradition. Held each year on September 7 to mark the anniversary of Thomas Campbell\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/webfiles.acu.edu\/departments\/Library\/HR\/restmov_nov11\/www.mun.ca\/rels\/restmov\/texts\/tcampbell\/da\/DA-1ST.HTM\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Declaration and Address <\/span><\/i><\/a>and highlight the Stone-Campbell <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Restoration Movement&#8217;s\u00a0 Day historic emphasis on unity in the Body of Christ.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This year&#8217;s Restoration Day activities will be held virtually and will center upon one of the most important figures in the movement\u2019s history, Alexander Campbell. Dr. Douglas A. Foster, professor emeritus of church history at ACU and one of the foremost scholars of the Restoration Movement, recently completed the first ever critical biography of Alexander Campbell entitled <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A Life of Alexander Campbell<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Dr. Foster will share his wisdom via a recorded lecture on the topic of Campbell\u2019s life and ministry, and as an added bonus, will speak from behind Thomas Campbell\u2019s pulpit from Ireland, currently housed at ACU\u2019s Center for Restoration Studies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Watch for a link to Dr. Foster\u2019s Restoration Day speech on Monday, September 7.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Blessings,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wes Crawford, PhD<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Assistant Professor of Church History<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Director, Center for Restoration Studies<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Abilene Christian University<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abilene Christian University and its Center for Restoration Studies will host Restoration Day 2020 on September 7. Started in 2019, Restoration Day serves to commemorate the rich heritage of the Stone-Campbell Movement by highlighting important persons, events, and ideas from this Restoration Movement tradition. Held each year on September 7 to mark the anniversary of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15468,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1644"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1672,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644\/revisions\/1672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}