{"id":4297,"date":"2022-08-21T15:57:13","date_gmt":"2022-08-21T20:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/?p=4297"},"modified":"2022-08-21T15:57:50","modified_gmt":"2022-08-21T20:57:50","slug":"restoration-day-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/2022\/08\/21\/restoration-day-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Restoration Day 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

You are invited to join the ACU community as it celebrates Restoration Day on\u00a0Tuesday, September 6<\/strong>, at the\u00a0Brown Library Packer Forum (6:00\u20138:00 pm)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s Restoration Day will feature the opening of a\u00a0new library exhibit that displays the first edition of Thomas Campbell\u2019s\u00a0<\/strong>Declaration and Address of the Washington (PA) Christian Association<\/i><\/strong>. This short book, written and published in 1809, is integral to the history of the Stone-Campbell Movement because it articulates many of our core beliefs about Christian unity.<\/p>\n

In 2021,\u00a0Wesley Williams of Memphis, Tennessee<\/strong>, and\u00a0Bradley Williams of Nashville, Tennessee<\/strong>, entrusted the ACU Brown Library with a copy of this book, one of only four known original copies to exist in the world today.\u00a0Members of the Williams family will be our honored guests at Restoration Day<\/strong>. Once the exhibit is unveiled, the ACU Brown Library will be the only location in North America where an original copy of this work will be on public display.<\/p>\n

Our other special guest will be\u00a0Dr. Ed Robinson<\/strong>, associate professor of history and religion at Texas College in Tyler. He will speak on the relevance of the\u00a0Declaration and Address<\/i>\u00a0for today\u2019s world. A reception following this lecture will be held in the ACU Brown Library\u2019s Special Collection & Archives department, and a new exhibit displaying this work will debut at that time.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Edward Robinson<\/p><\/div>\n

Dr. Robinson will also speak in the Graduate School of Theology\u2019s weekly chapel service at the\u00a0Chapel on the Hill<\/strong>\u00a0in the\u00a0Onstead-Packer Biblical Studies Building<\/strong>\u00a0at\u00a011:30 am<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a0Wednesday, September 7<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Restoration Day is hosted by the Center for Restoration Studies (CRS) at ACU. The Center for Restoration Studies was established in 1986 and is jointly managed by the ACU Brown Library and the ACU College of Biblical Studies. The Center advances scholarship related to the Stone-Campbell Movement and is one of the most active research communities dedicated to collecting, preserving, and disseminating scholarship related to the history of the Stone-Campbell Movement, specifically Churches of Christ. The Center for Restoration Studies also provides a robust and vital link between Abilene Christian University and congregations within the Stone-Campbell Movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You are invited to join the ACU community as it celebrates Restoration Day on\u00a0Tuesday, September 6, at the\u00a0Brown Library Packer Forum (6:00\u20138:00 pm). This year\u2019s Restoration Day will feature the opening of a\u00a0new library exhibit that displays the first edition … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10498,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4fxGI-17j","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4297"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4299,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4297\/revisions\/4299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}