The Poisoned Chalice: Eucharistic Grape Juice and Common-Sense Realism in Victorian Methodism (Religion & American Culture)

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.