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Woodruff, Jennifer Lynn.

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Purifying the poisoned chalice: Grape juice and common sense realism in the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1860--1900.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Purifying the poisoned chalice: Grape juice and common sense realism in the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1860--1900./
Author:	Woodruff, Jennifer Lynn.
Description:	350 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-08, Section: A, page: 3021.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-08A.
Subject:	Religion, General. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3228155
ISBN:	9780542816703

Purifying the poisoned chalice: Grape juice and common sense realism in the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1860--1900.
Woodruff, Jennifer Lynn.

Purifying the poisoned chalice: Grape juice and common sense realism in the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1860--1900. - 350 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-08, Section: A, page: 3021.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Duke University, 2005.

This dissertation addresses the introduction of grape juice into the celebration of Holy Communion in the late nineteenth-century Methodist Episcopal Church, explaining how an 1800-year-old practice (the use of fermented Communion wine) became theologically incomprehensible in the space of forty years. Through close textual study of denominational publications, influential exegetical works, popular fiction and songs, and prescriptive literature, I develop the dueling symbolic associations of wine and grape juice. I argue that nineteenth-century Methodists, steeped in Baconian models of science and operating from the epistemological presuppositions dictated by common-sense realism, placed a premium on the ability to perceive reality accurately in order to form their moral acts appropriately. They therefore rejected any outward physical act or substance which dulled or confused the senses. This philosophical outlook undergirded their reaction against many popular amusements and addictive behaviors, and required them to place on the Communion table a substance with a pure scientific and theological pedigree. Grape juice was considered holy because consuming it did not cloud the human mind's ability to perceive external reality and derive moral acts from those physical perceptions. The later rejection of common-sense realism by twentieth-century society, and reaction against middle-class liturgical practices by post-Vatican-II liturgists, obscured this coherent philosophical motivation of grape-juice advocates from their successors.

ISBN: 9780542816703Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017453
Religion, General.

Purifying the poisoned chalice: Grape juice and common sense realism in the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1860--1900.
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