TY - BOOK ID - 134996413 TI - The poisoned chalice PY - 2011 SN - 0817384901 9780817384906 9780817317195 0817317198 0817356975 9780817356972 PB - Tuscaloosa University of Alabama Press DB - UniCat KW - Lord's Supper KW - Temperance and religion KW - Grape juice KW - Wine KW - History of doctrines KW - Methodist Episcopal Church KW - History KW - Doctrines KW - United States KW - Church history UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:134996413 AB - 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 ER -