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This article examines the life and work of Charles Spurgeon Medhurst, elder son of Thomas William Medhurst.1 The younger Medhurst was a BMS missionary in China but became heavily involved with the Theosophical Society.2 This caused a major crisis in 1904. Following his rift with Baptist colleagues he turned to the Liberal Catholic Church, where his theosophical principles and Christian faith could co-exist, and was ordained as a priest.T.W. Medhurst (1834-1917) was the first student of the college founded by C.H. Spurgeon in 1856.Hereafter referred to as the TS.
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This article examines the life and work of Charles Spurgeon Medhurst, elder son of Thomas William Medhurst.1 The younger Medhurst was a BMS missionary in China but became heavily involved with the Theosophical Society.2 This caused a major crisis in 1904. Following his rift with Baptist colleagues he turned to the Liberal Catholic Church, where his theosophical principles and Christian faith could co-exist, and was ordained as a priest.T.W. Medhurst (1834-1917) was the first student of the college founded by C.H. Spurgeon in 1856.Hereafter referred to as the TS.
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