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The poisoned chalice : Eucharistic grape juice and common-sense realism in Victorian Methodism /
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 deno...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
©2011.
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| Colección: | Religion and American culture (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Notas: | Based on the author's Ph. D. thesis (Duke University, 2005). |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 189 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780817384906 0817384901 |