Downgrade Controversy: What Was the Motive Behind Spurgeon’s Initiation? and More Info
Spurgeon wrote an article titled “The Down Grade” in March 1887 for his monthly magazine, The Sword and the Trowel. Some clergy were “denying the rightful deity of the Son of God, abandoning faith in his atoning death,” according to the piece, which was anonymously published but written by Spurgeon’s friend Robert Shindler. They were…