Este libro investiga los principales aspectos del pensamiento teológico de nuestro personaje.

La figura de Spurgeon no necesita presentación en los círcuclos evangélicos. El conocido predicador de la época victoriana dejó una huella que se ha extendido mucho más allá de la Inglatera de la segunda mitad del siglo XIX. Sin embargo, no siempre se han aquilatado debidamente las razones de su influencia, y menos aún se ha compredido el mensaje que sacudió hasta sus cimientos las estructuras religiosas de su época. De hecho, puede decirse que el mensaje de Spurgeon ha sufrido una manifiesta distorsión con el paso del tiempo. Este libro investiga los principales aspectos del pensamiento teológico de nuestro personaje, especialmente en relación con las tres grandes controversias que le ocuparon: Su denuncia de la superficialidad religiosa; el debate en torno a la "regeneración bautismal", y la aguda polémica contra las herejías modernistas.

This book seeks to throw light on the reasons which have given rise to the superficial image of Spurgeon as a genial Victorian pulpiteer, a kind of grandfather of modern evangelicalism. Even before his death in 1892 newspapers and church leaders disputed over the features of his life which entitled him to fame. Not his 'narrow creed' but his 'genuine loving character' was most worthy of remembrance said one periodical, echoing the general view. When Joseph Parker contrasted the hard Calvinism preached at Spurgeon's Tabernacle with the praiseworthy Christianity exemplified in his orphanage, The Bapist protested that the man about whom Parker wrote 'is not the Spurgeon of history'. But the distortion continued and Spurgeon forecast how the position he help might fare in years to come: 'I am quite willing to be eaten by dogs for the next fifty years but the more distant future shall vindicate me'. This book traces the main lines of Spurgeon's spiritual thouhght in connection with the three great controversies in his ministry- the first was his stand against the diluted gospel fashionable in the London to which the young preacher came in the 1850's; the second, the famous 'Baptismal Regeneration' debate of 1864; lastly, the lacerating Down-Grade controversy of 1887-1891 when Spurgeon sought to awaken Christians to the danger of the Church 'being buried beneath the boiling mud-showers of modern heresy'.