The poisoned chalice [electronic resource] : Eucharistic grape juice and common-sense realism in Victorian Methodism / Jennifer L. Woodruff Tait.
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TextSeries: Religion and American culture (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)Publication details: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2011.Description: xiii, 189 pSubject(s): - Methodist Episcopal Church -- Doctrines -- History -- 19th century
- 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
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- BX8338 .T35 2011eb
Based on the author's Ph. D. thesis (Duke University, 2005).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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