Anne Hurchinson was a freethinker. She believed woman had a right just as men to study the laws of God. Where as male puritans didn't believe woman should interfere with the church.
The puritans were Calvinists, and challenged the Anglican Church for supremacy in England. The wanted to continue the reformation and enforce the ideas of John Calvin and introduce a Presbyterian...
Although all of these faiths caused a problem for Elizabeth, It is thought that the most predominent of them was Catholicism. As far as Elizabeth was concerned, so long as Catholics behaved...
The word "Puritan" was often used to characterize the Protestant group as extremists similar to the Cathari of France. They did not call themselves Puritans, but their intent was to "purify" the...