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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]].

==Origins==

==Origins==

British historian [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Hill_(historian) Christopher Hill] explains that, long before the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Civil_War English Revolution], there already existed a "lower-class [[Heresy|heretical]] [[culture]]" in England. The cornerstones of this culture were Anti-clericalism and a strong emphasis on [[Bible|biblical]] [[study]], but there were specific heretical [[doctrines]] that had “an uncanny [[persistence]].” There was a rejection of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predestination Predestination], and an embrace of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millenarianism Millenarianism], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_sleep mortalism], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nontrinitarianism anti-Trinitarianism], and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermeticism Hermeticism]. Such [[ideas]] became "commonplace to seventeenth century Baptists, Levellers, Diggers, Seekers, early Quakers and other [[radical]] groupings which took part in the free-for-all [[discussions]] of the English Revolution."[1]

British historian [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Hill_(historian) Christopher Hill] explains that, long before the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Civil_War English Revolution], there already existed a "lower-class [[Heresy|heretical]] [[culture]]" in England. The cornerstones of this culture were Anti-clericalism and a strong emphasis on [[Bible|biblical]] [[study]], but there were specific heretical [[doctrines]] that had “an uncanny [[persistence]].” There was a rejection of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predestination Predestination], and an embrace of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millenarianism Millenarianism], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_sleep mortalism], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nontrinitarianism anti-Trinitarianism], and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermeticism Hermeticism]. Such [[ideas]] became "commonplace to seventeenth century Baptists, Levellers, Diggers, Seekers, early Quakers and other [[radical]] groupings which took part in the free-for-all [[discussions]] of the English Revolution."[1]