"You have no power to call upon me to give the grounds of my conscience. The Spirit of God is not subject to magistrates, and what I have spoken in private I am not bound to repeat in public. I have brought no scandal upon the church, but only spoken truth as the Lord revealed it to me." — Anne Hutchinson, Trial Transcript, 1637
Hutchinson's prosecution reflected Puritan anxieties about which broader pattern?
- A
Anglican infiltration of pulpits
- Bcheck_circle
Women asserting public theological authority
- C
Catholic immigration from Maryland
- D
Quaker pacifism in militia laws
Explanation
Hutchinson held mixed-gender meetings in her home and critiqued ministers, behavior considered intolerable for women in Puritan gender hierarchy.