RT Article T1 James Culross, C.H. Spurgeon and the Crisis of British Baptist Confessionalism, 1887–8: Part II, the Controversy JF Baptist quarterly VO 54 IS 2 SP 90 OP 125 A1 Crocker, Christopher W. LA English PB Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group YR 2023 UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1841094471 AB Initially drawn to this subject because Culross wrote a nineteenth-century biography on John Ryland Jr. (1753–1825) who was the subject of my PhD, I encountered letters held at Bristol Baptist College noting the friendship between James Culross and C.H. Spurgeon and others during the Downgrade Controversy. This article seeks to convey the contents of their correspondence during this controversy and probe the essence of their subtly divergent views of Baptist confessionalism in an attempt to gain a more complete understanding of what was a complex controversy. K1 Liberalism K1 Romanticism K1 Confessionalism K1 Baptist Union K1 downgrade controversy K1 Charles H. Spurgeon K1 James Culross DO 10.1080/0005576X.2022.2156194