Sacred Borders

"Why," an exasperated Jonathan Edwards asked, "can''t we be contented with. . . the canon of Scripture?" Edwards posed this query to the religious enthusiasts of his own generation, but he could have just as appropriately put it to people across the full expanse of early American history. In the minds of her critics, Anne Hutchinson''s heresies threatened to produce "a new Bible." Ethan Allen insi...