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'''Seekers''' in contemporary usage refers to [[persons]] whose [[truth]] quest leads them beyond [[conventional]] [[knowledge]] and the [[communities]] defined by such knowledge. Otherwise, historically, there was a group known as [[Seekers]], or Legatine-Arians as they were sometimes known, who were a Protestant dissenting [[group]] that emerged around the 1620s, probably inspired by the preaching of three brothers - Walter, Thomas, and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartholomew_Legate Bartholomew Legate]. Arguably, they are best thought of as forerunners of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_Society_of_Friends Quakers], with whom many of them subsequently merged. Seekers considered all organised churches of their day to be corrupt, and preferred to wait for [[God]]'s [[revelation]].
 
'''Seekers''' in contemporary usage refers to [[persons]] whose [[truth]] quest leads them beyond [[conventional]] [[knowledge]] and the [[communities]] defined by such knowledge. Otherwise, historically, there was a group known as [[Seekers]], or Legatine-Arians as they were sometimes known, who were a Protestant dissenting [[group]] that emerged around the 1620s, probably inspired by the preaching of three brothers - Walter, Thomas, and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartholomew_Legate Bartholomew Legate]. Arguably, they are best thought of as forerunners of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_Society_of_Friends Quakers], with whom many of them subsequently merged. Seekers considered all organised churches of their day to be corrupt, and preferred to wait for [[God]]'s [[revelation]].

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