<p>Hello, I was wondering if someone could explain to why the answer to the question below is C and not D.</p>
<p>Question: Anne Hutchinson embraced "Antinomianism" in Massachusetts Bay when she:</p>
<p>A) Counsel women to accept their proper role in society
B) Called for toleration of the Quaker philosophy
C) Said ineffective ministers should have no authority in their congregations
D) Claimed that salvation could be earned through a righteous life
E) Left Massachusetts Bay rather than conform to the ideas of John Winthrop </p>
<p>This question if bugging me. The answer is C I thought it was D.</p>
<p>D definitely sounds like the right answer. It’s probably a mistake from wherever you got the test from.</p>
<p>Antinomianism is the belief that salvation can’t be earned through a righteous life, and in fact that how good you are has nothing to do with whether or not you are saved. I can’t tell you why C is the right answer, but D obviously isn’t.</p>
<p>By process of elimination, it’s not D (because, as amarkov said, antinomianism is essentially belief in predestination), it’s not E (she was banned), and it’s not A (she did this, but it has nothing to do with antinomianism).</p>
<p>That leaves B and C. B is unrelated. That leaves C as the only answer, and it makes sense–Anne Hutchinson believed that God revealed himself to people without the need for the clergy, who were unnecessary and were often, she believed, not even of the elect.</p>