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Elias Hicks (March 19, 1748 – February 27, 1830) was a traveling Quaker minister from Long Island, New York. In his ministry he promoted unorthodox doctrines that led to controversy, which caused the second major schism within the Religious Society of Friends (the first caused by George Keith in 1691). [1]
Elias Hicks (19 de marzo de 1748 – 27 de febrero de 1830) fue un predicador cuáquero itinerante de Long Island, Nueva York. Promovió doctrinas que lo involucraron en una controversia que condujo al primer gran cisma dentro de la Sociedad Religiosa de los Amigos.
15 de mar. de 2024 · Elias Hicks was an early advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States and a liberal Quaker preacher whose followers became known as Hicksites, one of two factions created by the schism of 1827–28 in American Quakerism.
Quick Reference. (1748–1830), American Quaker. He took up the cause of the negroes. He opposed the creation of any credal basis for Quakerism, notably in his Doctrinal Epistle (1824), in which he protested against insistence on the orthodox doctrines of the Person of Christ and the Atonement.
Whitman's developing attitude toward Quakerism.7 Even Hicks's biogra-pher, Bliss Forbush, describes the impact that the Quaker had on the poet.8 And, Whitman himself remembers the evening in his 1888 essay, "Notes (such as they are) founded on Elias Hicks." Though Whitman nev-er recalls the specific words Hicks used, the Quaker's presence, "a ...
Elias Hicks was a prominent Quaker minister in the early 19th century who advocated for the immediate revelation of God's Spirit as the source of salvation. He was opposed by orthodox Friends who accused him of heresy and led to the Hicksite schism in 1827-28.
30 de mar. de 2021 · Journal of the life and religious labours of Elias Hicks by Hicks, Elias, 1748-1830. Publication date 1969 Topics Hicks, Elias, 1748-1830 -- Diaries, Hicks, Elias, 1748-1830, Quakers -- United States -- Diaries, Hicksites, Quakers, United States Publisher New York, Arno Press
