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Author Tait, Jennifer L. Woodruff.

Title The poisoned chalice : Eucharistic grape juice and common-sense realism in Victorian Methodism / Jennifer L. Woodruff Tait
Published Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 189 pages)
Series Religion and American culture
Religion and American culture (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)
Contents What has grape juice to do with common sense? -- Alcohol and science -- Alcohol and the overthrow of reason -- Alcohol, the ideal worker, and the poisoned chalice -- Alcohol and the truth of the Gospel -- Common sense and the common cup -- Juice and cups or wine and chalice? : concluding thoughts on symbolism and minor vices
Summary This work examines the introduction of grape juice into the celebration of Holy Communion in the late 19th century Methodist Episcopal Church and reveals how a 1,800-year-old practice of using fermented communion wine became theologically incomprehensible in a mere forty years. Through study of denominational publications, influential exegetical works, popular fiction and songs, and didactic moral literature, Jennifer Woodruff Tait charts the development of opposing symbolic associations for wine and grape juice. She argues that 19th century Methodists, steeped in Baconian models of science a
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Based on the author's Ph. D. thesis (Duke University, 2005)
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Subject Methodist Episcopal Church -- Doctrines -- History -- 19th century
SUBJECT Methodist Episcopal Church fast
Subject Lord's Supper -- Wine -- History of doctrines -- 19th century
Lord's Supper -- Methodist Episcopal Church -- History of doctrines -- 19th century
Temperance and religion -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Grape juice -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Grape juice -- History -- 19th century
RELIGION -- Christian Rituals & Practice -- Worship & Liturgy.
RELIGION -- Institutions & Organizations.
Grape juice
Temperance and religion
Theology, Doctrinal
SUBJECT United States -- Church history -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139928
Subject United States
Genre/Form Church history
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780817384906
0817384901