Anne Hutchinson's Religious Beliefs

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Anne Hutchinson grew up in the age of the Puritans. The Puritans were people who based how they lived their lives on religious beliefs.Their religion was called Calvinism, which was built on the idea that God had planned their life since birth and if anything was strayed from that path should’ve been immediately disposed of. She became a woman who believed in her own interpretations of the Bible, which she followed from the Protestant Minister John Cotton and went to Massachusetts Bay Colony with her husband. When she had settled in Boston, she had frequent meetings about the minister's’ sermons, that had up to 60 to 80 people. Anne's beliefs talked about how God’s grace can be directed bestowed by faith. That went against the Puritans