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Drinking With Calvin and Luther!: A History of Alcohol in the Church

Drinking With Calvin and Luther!: A History of Alcohol in the Church
By Jim West

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #166274 in Books
  • Published on: 2003-05
  • Original language: English
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 216 pages

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A joy5
Biblical Christians tend to overcorrect. We see the significant destruction abuse of alcohol has wrought, and we want to ban it all. But to do that is to cast aside a good gift of God. Its like forbidding all eating just because so many abuse food and overeat. The Bible is clear -- drunkenness and/or addiction: bad, drinking (in moderation): good.

Rev. Jim West makes an airtight case that the Reformers had a far different view than post-Temperance Movement pietists. And he does it with sly humor and real style. This is a truly wonderful book on a lot of levels -- history, Christian living, arts and culture, Biblcial studies, humor. Its even got chapters on how to select a good drink. Really loved this book.

LOL!5
This book is a funny yet serious look at the history of alcohol in Protestant Christianity. It is very enlightening and shares a lot of history and scripture about alcohol.

In all of that, it still manages to be very tounge-in-cheek. It almost had me rolling on the floor a couple of times.

This book proves, that contrary to what Prohobitionists might like to tell you, godly men of ages past enjoyed fermented beverages in moderation. It will make you want to abstain from alcohol in moderation.

Sweeter Than Wine...4
Jim West proved to be an insighful, knowledgeable, and humorous writer. His mix of history, theology, and science integrate to form a modern textbook on the subject of alcohol in the church. It's sad that although Jesus drank, and the Church accepted alcohol use for over 1900 years, many Protestants have upheld abstinence and demonized alcohol within the last century of so. West shows that an overwhelming array of Godly men over the centuries drank in moderation and proved once for all that alcohol is not evil and there is no way under heaven that it can be shown that the Bible condemns it. I especially recommend this book to my fellow Baptists.