The Poisoned Chalice - Eucharistic Grape Juice and Common sense Realism in Victorian

Informationen zum Autor Jennifer L. Woodruff Tait is Adjunct Professor of Church History at Huntington University, Asbury Theological Seminary, Southwestern College, and United Theological Seminary. Her articles and essays have appeared in Christianity Today, Christian History and Biography , and in American Denominational History . Klappentext "The Poisoned Chalice" 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. Zusammenfassung "The Poisoned Chalice" 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.

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• Authors: Jennifer L Woodruff Tait, Jennifer L. Woodruff Tait
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2011
• EAN: 9780817356972
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-5697-2
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Religion and American Culture; Religion and American Culture; Religion & American Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works