Finally!

As I was reading the Puritan Readins of the New England Landscape, I came across this quote at the top of page 134

"God [to the Puritans] is not to be understood but to be adorned"

For some reason it was this quote that finally made everything about Anne Hutchinson click. I understood that the people of her society disproved of her "connection with God" but I could never understand why. I didn't realize that the Puritans look at God as a mystical being that is not to be understood but simply admired. I know it's not unusual for different religions to look at God as an all powerful being, more mighty than human understand can come to grasp, but I didn't realize the Puritans didn't even think people should not try to understand God. They just felt he should be accepted as is.

It's such a simple quotation bit it was definitely an "ah ha!" moment for me.