Download or read book Original Sin and Everyday Protestants written by Finstuen and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-07-13 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years following World War II, American Protestantism experienced tremendous growth, but conventional wisdom holds that midcentury Protestants practiced an optimistic, progressive, complacent, and materialist faith. In Original Sin and Everyday Protestants, historian Andrew Finstuen argues against this prevailing view, showing that theolog...