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Hicksite
Hicksite Hicks"ite, n. A member or follower of the ``liberal' party, headed by Elias Hicks, which, because of a change of views respecting the divinity of Christ and the Atonement, seceded from the conservative portion of the Society of Friends in the United States, in 1827.

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- 1827-1828 Hicksite-Orthodox split. The central doctrinal focus of the Hicksite-Orthodox split was the role of the Bible and Jesus Christ. Both Hicksites and...
- movement. The Hicksite–Orthodox split arose out of both ideological and socioeconomic tensions. Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Hicksites tended to be agrarian...
- Conservative Friends is found in early 19th-century schisms, first with liberal, "Hicksite" Friends and then with evangelical-oriented "Gurneyite" Friends. The Conservative...
- Society of Friends, experienced a major schism called the Hicksite–Orthodox split. The Hicksites were led by Quaker minister Elias Hicks, who put a strong...
- innovations as the pastoral system. Neither the Hicksites nor Wilburites experienced such numerical growth. The Hicksites became more liberal and declined in number...
- schism occurred in 1828, leaving two branches, "Orthodox" Quakers and "Hicksite" Quakers. West Lake The basic unit of Quaker organization is the Monthly...
- in 1703, it fell into disuse until the 1840s when it was revived by the Hicksite Quaker community of Philadelphia, which pla**** an important role in the...
- in Philadelphia, on March 3, 1826, the fifth child of ten in a liberal Hicksite Quaker family. His parents, William Wharton and Deborah Fisher Wharton...
- another and to the world. In 1827, it divided into two meetings in the Hicksite/Orthodox schism, each claiming the title of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting...
- the Trinity: Or a Check to Modern Arianism as Taught by Campbellites, Hicksites, New Lights, Universalists and Mormons, and Especially by a Sect Calling...