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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809192103321

Autore

Tait Jennifer L. Woodruff

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2011

ISBN

0-8173-8490-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 p.)

Collana

Religion and American culture

Disciplina

264/.07036097309034

Soggetti

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

United States Church history 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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