Anne Hutchinson's Antinomian Controversy

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Anne Hutchinson, who lived in the Massachusetts Bay colony with her husband and John Cotton, was a religious leader of the Puritan religion who expressed her views of the religion and the Bible. Her beliefs and actions actions had lead to the controversy known as the Antinomian Controversy.
Hutchinson disagreed with the Puritan belief that human actions does not affect an individual's salvation. She believed and taught that human behavior does, in fact, reflect one’s salvation.

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