Abstract: The pivotal period in Wang Tao's relationship with protestant missionaries，the church，and Christianity occurred in the 1850s，especially during the period of 1854-1857． The turning point in his relationship to Christianity was the death of Walter Henry Medhurst． During the period of Wang Tao's involvement he not only succeeded his father as a translator who assisted Medhurst and others in finishing the translation of the Bible，but he also revised，and almost rewrote and translated，Medhurst's Zongzhu Shipian，and he actively took part in mission work． During this time，Wang Tao also asked to be baptized and submitted a baptismal application． The application revealed that his connection with Christianity had reached the highest point． Aside from social and cultural factors at that time，Wang Tao's standpoint of supporting the “self-strengthening”of Chinese culture，his worldly and rational knowledge，his awareness of comparative religion，his deep-rooted feelings and living habits of literati placed him in the interstices between Christian belief and non-Christian thought． He eventually completed his intellectual life in pursuit of his belief，with doubt and self-imposed exile as a intellectual in late Qing China．