How Did Anne Hutchinson Antinomianism

Alford, Lincolnshire, England, probably in the spring of 1591 (she was baptized on July 20, 1591), Anne Marbury was the daughter of a silenced clergyman and grew up in an atmosphere of learning. She married William Hutchinson, a merchant, in 1612, and in 1634 they migrated to Massachusetts. Anne Hutchinson soon organized weekly meetings of Boston women to discuss recent sermons and to give expression to her own theological views. Before long her sessions attracted ministers and magistrates as well. She stressed the individual's intuition as a means of reaching God and salvation, rather than the observance of institutionalized beliefs and the precepts of ministers. Her opponents accused her of antinomianism--the view that God's grace has freed the Christian from the need to observe established moral precepts. …show more content…
First, she espoused a “covenant of grace,” meaning that individuals had direct access to God and all responsibility for salvation came through Christ, and not the “covenant of works” that many Christian leaders of the day preached. The “covenant of works” taught that one looked outward to a person’s behavior as a sign of election. Secondly, Hutchinson was female and just as women did not vote or hold church or government office, they were not supposed to preach to congregants. Hutchinson was a woman in a patriarchal society. The central belief of Puritanism was that people should live their lives according to God's laws, particularly as stated in the Old Testament. Society in the Old Testament is wholly patriarchal - women attempting to do things 'out of their place' in a Puritan society would be viewed as a threat to the whole society by its male patriarchal