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The poisoned chalice : Eucharistic grape juice and common-sense realism in Victorian Methodism / Jennifer L. Woodruff Tait.
- Title
- The poisoned chalice : Eucharistic grape juice and common-sense realism in Victorian Methodism / Jennifer L. Woodruff Tait.
- Author
- Tait, Jennifer L. Woodruff
- Publication
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2011.
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- Description
- xiii, 189 p.; 24 cm.
- 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 and operating from epistemological presuppositions dictated by common-sense realism, placed a premium on the ability to perceive reality accurately in order to act morally. They therefore rejected any action or substance that dulled or confused the senses (in addition to alcohol, this included "bad" books, the theatre, stimulants, etc., which were all seen as unleashing unchecked, ungovernable thoughts and passions incompatible with true religion)." -- Publisher description.
- Series Statement
- Religion and American culture
- Uniform Title
- Project Muse UPCC books
- Religion and American culture (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780817317195 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0817317198 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780817384906 (electronic)
- 0817384901 (electronic)
- LCCN
- ^^2010032808
- OCLC
- 644655321
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library