The poisoned chalice : Eucharistic grape juice and common-sense realism in Victorian Methodism / Jennifer L. Woodruff Tait.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tait, Jennifer L. Woodruff.

Series:

Religion and American culture (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)

Religion and American culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lord's Supper--Wine--History of doctrines--19th century.

Lord's Supper.

Lord's Supper--Methodist Episcopal Church--History of doctrines--19th century.

Temperance and religion--United States--History--19th century.

Temperance and religion.

Grape juice--United States--History--19th century.

Grape juice.

United States--Church history--19th century.

United States.

Methodist Episcopal Church--Doctrines--History--19th century.

Methodist Episcopal Church.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

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

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.

Notes:

Based on the author's Ph. D. thesis (Duke University, 2005).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8490-1

OCLC:

772845398