The Great Works at the Acton Institute
Come view and touch great books from as far back as 1250, on display at the Acton Institute through November 30th
Event Details
Join the Acton Institute in person to see many curated works from The Remnant Trust, a public educational foundation that shares an actively growing collection of manuscripts, first edition and early works dealing with the topics of individual liberty and human dignity with some pieces dating as early as 2500 B.C. Works on display at the Acton Institute include:
Bible, Epistle of Paul to the Romans: Romans IX-XII, ca. 1250
Declaration of Independence [in] Journals of the Assembly, 1777
Abraham Lincoln, Emancipation Proclamation, 1862
George Orwell, 1984, 1949
Frederic Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom, 1855
Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics, 1488
Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae Pars Secunda, 1475
John Dalberg Acton, Historical Essays and Studies, 1907
- Open House Date/Time
- Tuesday, November 30th - 4pm to 8pm
- Location
- Acton Institute
- 98 Fulton Street East
- Grand Rapids, MI 49503
