Anne Hutchinson

Theologian

1591-07-20 – 1643-08-20

Anne Hutchinson was an English religious reformer in colonial New England who challenged Puritan clerical authority during the Antinomian Controversy. She was tried and banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1638. Hutchinson is widely cited in histories of religious liberty and women's leadership in early America.

Quotes by Anne Hutchinson

The Lord knows that I could not open scripture; he must by his prophetical office open it unto me. So after that being unsatisfied in the thing, the Lord was pleased to bring this scripture out of the Hebrews.
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Will it please you to answer me this and to give me a rule for then I will willingly submit to any truth.
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