Communion Bibliography

Adell, Marian Y. "Toward More Frequent Communion: The Journey of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1858-1866." Methodist History 31 (1993) 161-176.

Borgen, Ole. John Wesley on the Sacraments. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1972.

Bowmer, John C. "A Converting Ordinance and the Open Table." Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society 34 (1964) 109-113.

__________. "The Manual Acts in the Communion Office." Religion in Life 28 (1958-1959) 119-126.

__________. The Sacrament of the Lord's Supper in Early Methodism. Westminster: Dacre Press, 1951.

__________. "Wesley's Revision of the Communion Service." London Quarterly and Holborn Review 176 (1951) 230-237.

Busby, Jack P. "The Lord's Supper: An Alternate Text for American Methodists." Worship 49 (1975) 13-22.

Cartwright, Michael G. and Shiplett, Gary R. "Closing Ranks on Open Communion: Two Views." Quarterly Review 8 (1988) 54-70.

Chappell, E. B. The Church and Its Sacraments. Nashville: Publishing House of the M.E. Church, South, 1921.

Goodloe, Robert W. The Sacraments in Methodism. Nashville: Methodist Publishing House, 1953.

Grislis, Egil. "The Wesleyan Doctrine of the Lord's Supper." Duke Divinity School Review 28 (1963) 99-110.

Hickman, Hoyt L. "Worship Revision in the United Methodist Church" in The Changing Face of Jewish and Christian Worship in North America, pp. 112-124. Ed. Paul F. Bradshaw and Lawrence A. Hoffman. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1991.

McCabe, Kendall K. "Spirituality and the Sacraments in United Methodism Today." Doxology 2 (1985) 15-22.

Nelson, J. Robert. "Eucharist, Ecumenism, Methodism" in Wesleyan Theology Today, pp. 313-322. Nashville: Kingswood, 1985.

__________. "Methodist Eucharistic Usage: From Constant Communion to Benign Neglect to Sacramental Recovery." Journal of Ecumenical Studies 13 (1976) 88-93.

__________. "What Methodists Think of Eucharistic Theology." Worship 52 (1978) 409-424. O'Brien, Betty A. "The Lord's Supper: Fruit of the Vine or Cup of Devils?" Methodist History 31 (1993) 203-223.

__________. "The Lord's Supper: Traditional Cup of Unity or Innovative Cups of Individuality." Methodist History 32 (1994) 79-98.

Peiffer, Robert B. "How Contemporary Liturgies Evolve: the Revision of United Methodist Liturgical Texts (1968-1988)." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Notre Dame, 1992. Pugh, William L. "Developing Eucharistic Awareness." Quarterly Review 6 (1986) 32-36.

Rattenbury, J. Ernest. The Eucharistic Hymns of John and Charles Wesley. London: The Epworth Press, 1948.

Rosser, Leonidas. Open Communion. Richmond, VA: Published by the Author, 1858.

Ruth, Lester. A Little Heaven Below: Worship at Early Methodist Quarterly Meetings. Nashville: Kingswood, 2000.

__________. "A Reconsideration of the Frequency of the Eucharist in Early American Methodism." Methodist History 34 (1995) 47-58.

Sanders, Paul S. "An Appraisal of John Wesley's Sacramentalism in the Evolution of Early American Methodism." Ph.D. dissertation, Union Theological Seminary, 1954.

__________. "The Sacraments in Early American Methodism." Church History 26 (1957) 355-371.

__________. "Wesley's Eucharistic Faith and Practice." Doxology 5 (1988) 21-34; repr. from Anglican Theological Review 148 (1966) 154-174.

Stamm, Mark W. Sacraments & Discipleship: Understanding Baptism and the Lord's Supper in a United Methodist Context. Nashville: Discipleship Resources, 2001.

Stamm, Mark W. and E. Byron Anderson. "Who May Receive Communion in the United Methodist Church?" Quarterly Review 21 (Fall 2001) 306-312.

Staples, Rob L. Outward Sign and Inward Grace: The Place of Sacraments in Wesleyan Spirituality. Kansas City: Beacon Hill Press, 1991.

Stookey, Laurence Hull. Eucharist: Christ's Feast with the Church. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1993.

Wainwright, Geoffrey. "The Sacraments in Wesleyan Perspective." Doxology 5 (1988) 5-20.

Westerfield Tucker, Karen B. American Methodist Worship. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

White, James F. "The Development of the 1972 United Methodist Eucharistic Rite." Doxology 1 (1984) 14-22.

__________. "An Evolving Sacramental Theology." The Christian Century 97 (1980) 732-733.

__________. "Function and Form of the Eucharistic Prayers." Reformed Liturgy and Music 16 (1982) 18-21.

__________. "The New American Methodist Communion Order." Worship 41 (1967) 552-560.

__________. "The Sacrament of the Lord's Supper; the New Alternate Rite." Christian Advocate 16 (September 14, 1972) 13-14.

__________. Sacraments as God's Self-Giving. Revised edition. Nashville: Abingdon, 2001.

__________. The Sacraments in Protestant Faith and Practice. Nashville: Abingdon, 1999.

__________. "Toward a Discipline of the Sacraments." Circuit Rider 4 (1980) 3-7.

__________. "United Methodist Eucharistic Prayers: 1965-1985" in New Eucharistic Prayers, pp. 80-95. Edited by Frank C. Senn. New York: Paulist Press, 1987.

Compiled by Dr. Karen B. Westerfield Tucker, Duke Divinity School, Duke University. She is a member of the Holy Communion Study Committee.