Abstract: By 1750, a transition was beginning to take place in American Christianity. Americans began to replace traditional theology with public intellectual ideologies like republicanism and commonsense moral reasoning – views that had traditionally been seen as heterodox. This occurred in large parts because the traditional Puritan framework cracked and fragmented during the heated events of the colonial Great Awakening.

Keywords: Anne Hutchinson, commonwealth, Jonathan Edwards, Great Awakening, Half-Way Covenant, New England, Puritanism, Reformed theology,