Hicksite Friends

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Hicksite Friends is the name given to its most prominent spokesman, Elias Hicks, as the smaller of the two groups that formed as the Quakers split up between 1827 and 1828 .

The division within Quakerism arose after Elias Hicks criticized Quaker evangelical tendencies, particularly the emphasis on the authority of the Bible at the expense of traditional teaching. His opponents (so-called "Orthodox Friends") accused Hicks of disbelief and accused him of deism . The controversy eventually culminated in the split in Quakerism. Today the Hicksites belong to the "Friends General Conference" founded in 1902 and based in Philadelphia.

Individual evidence

  1. Thomas D. Hamm: Hicksiten . In: Hans Dieter Betz u. a. (Ed.): Religion in the past and present . Concise dictionary for theology and religious studies. 4th edition. tape 8 , no. 3 . UTB, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-8252-8401-5 , Sp. 1723 .
  2. J. Gordon Melton: Hicks, Elias (1748-1830) . American liberal Quaker leader. In: Encyclopedia of World Religions . Encyclopedia of Protestantism, No. 6 . Facts of File, New York 2005, ISBN 978-0-8160-5456-5 , pp. 267 f . (English).