The Poisoned Chalice: Eucharistic Grape Juice and Common-Sense Realism in Victorian Methodism

by Jennifer Woodruff Tait

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

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817356975
• ISBN13: 9780817356972
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"