Lipscomb presents Fourth Annual Carroll B. Ellis Symposium on Restoration Preaching July 14
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The life and work of E.H. Ijams will be the focus of the Fourth Annual Carroll B. Ellis Symposium on Restoration Preaching, to be held at Lipscomb University July 14.
The Ellis symposium will be held from 9:30 a.m. until 3 p.m. at Lipscomb's Center for Spiritual Renewal, located in Longview Mansion at 811 Caldwell Lane, Nashville. The $10 symposium fee includes lunch.
Presenters at this year's Symposium include Harold Shank, preaching minister at Highland Street Church of Christ, Memphis, and David Ralston, Lipscomb University board member and elder at the Highland Street congregation.
The Ellis Symposium on Restoration Preaching focuses on the work of pioneers in the American Restoration Movement, which coalesced in 1832 from independent efforts led by men from North Carolina through New England, according to Dr. Carl McKelvey, Center for Spiritual Renewal director.
The common belief that drove the movement was that restoring unity among believers could only be accomplished by returning to the Bible, "excluding all human opinions and philosophy, as the only rule of faith and practice," as David Lipscomb, another co-founder of Lipscomb University, once explained.
The symposium is an annual event and is named in memory of the late Dr. Carroll B. Ellis, longtime chair of the Department of Communication at Lipscomb University and preacher for several churches of Christ in the Nashville area. Dr. John David Thomas, a friend and former student of Dr. Ellis, provided funding to establish the symposium "to honor Dr. Ellis and advance the cause of restoration preaching." Dr. Thomas is a member of the faculty at Freed-Hardeman University, Henderson, Tenn.
For reservations or additional information, contact the Center for Spiritual Renewal at 615.279.9942 or e-mail spiritualrenewal [at] lipscomb.edu.