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.
The University Of Alabama Press Poisoned chalice. eucharistic grape juice and common-sense realism in victorian methodism, paperback/jennifer l. woodruff tait
