“It is an irony still to be appreciated by many scholars that by so maximizing sinfulness (before God every man is guilty of every conceivable sin) Protestants tried to minimize its psychological burden (no man is required to ponder and recite his every actual sin)” SinChristianityConfessionReformationProtestantism Book:The Reformation in the Cities: The Appeal of Protestantism to Sixteenth-Century Germany and Switzerland Source: The Reformation in the Cities: The Appeal of Protestantism to Sixteenth-Century Germany and Switzerland