Anne Hutchinson

Governor Winthrop had a ream to build a puritan society with strict rules on his metropolis on the hill. He was not going to let Anne Hutchinson, a forceful woman with unique ghostly beliefs, decompose his plan. Anne developed a respectful reputation during her early old age in New England as a midwife, healer and a dev unwrap Christian. It was because of this reputation and her general magnetic personality that drew people to her. She was an intelligent woman, which was rare, so people wanted to listen to what she had to say.This would have been fine, except what she wanted to talk about was her religious beliefs. A woman lecture In a prude rich colony was unacceptable and was not to be tolerated. Although, the strong willed Anne, who finally had the freedom to express her religious beliefs was not about to quit. A woman, preaching her religious beliefs outside the church walls, was sufficient enough of a crime to bring Anne Into trial. Under Governor Winthrop lead, no person, es pecially female, would preach unless you were a member of the clergy.The prude ministers were the only apparent conduit between the people and God and any possible gateway to heaven. This belief gave Governor Winthrop a lot of control in managing his colony. So here Is the problem he faced. The Governor Is advocating that you must be approved through the Puritan ministers to get into heaven, and now there is this influential woman preaching too many others that you can access God directly through your own actions and beliefs. So why follow the church establish rules laid out by the Government If you can write your own destiny?Governor Winthrop was prosecuting Anna not just because she was a woman acting out of her social etiquette, scarce because he was threatened that with her existing influence and religious beliefs, his city upon a hill would fall. I believe the outcome of Anne Hutchison trial was decided before she stepped In the door. What does this episode say about the hope s and difficulties of the City upon a Hill community that tin can Winthrop and others were trying to build?John Winthrop, a man very steadfast in the Puritan faith believed that the reformed religion could create a functioning community. He hoped to build a model community In which all others would follow, John Winthrop, along with other early colonists, had confidence that the new colony would be so perfect, that other English people would migrate and reform. Winthrop yearned for a society based on, community solidarity. It would be a well-oiled machine where all settlers would work together In harmony to build this dream colony.According to Governor Winthrop, this type of community could not exist without uniform religious beliefs. Therefore, he put laws in place that empowered his Puritan ministers and obstructed any other beliefs. The foremost difficulty that the city upon a hill faced early on not share the same Puritan beliefs that John Winthrop laws had scripted. It is diffi cult to ask people escaping the corrupt church service of England religion, to simply fall onto another dictatorial way of religious belief.The bigger the colony grew, the more difficult it got for Winthrop to govern the growing amount of dissenters within his colony. Also, settlers began to befall opportunity for financial suck up in the colony of Massachusetts, and this monetary hunger in individuals soon overshadowed their religious beliefs and standards. From dissenters to the vastly increasing population and monetary gain of individuals, John Winthrop hope for a religiously uniformed city upon a hill had collapsed, and the hope for religious freedom in America had begun.