Anne_Hutchinson

Anne Hutchinson Anne Hutchinson made the journey to the New World to break away from the Church of England. Anne wanted to feel free to express her increasingly Puritan views. Upon expressing these views, the government of Massachusetts believed that Anne was a great threat to the social and political order of Massachusetts Bay. Anne Hutchinson had claimed that a holy life was no sure sign of salvation and that the truly saved need not bother to obey the law of either God or man (pg. 47 in The American Pageant by Bailey, Kennedy, and Cohen). Anne was basically telling the people that if they were already chosen by God to go to heaven, it did not matter whether they attended church because they were already chosen to go to heaven. Her claim also meant that if they were not chosen by God to go to heaven, it did not matter if they went to church because they were already chosen to go to hell. This also meant that they didn’t have to listen to the law of man. This was a great threat towards the governing of Massachusetts. If all peoples were anne, hutchinson, massachusetts, women, world, new, government, god, go, chosen, views, threat, heaven, church, because, amongst, already, very, supremacy, state, society, social, political, pg, period, order, meant, matter, man, male, listen, life, law, kennedy, housewife