Evolution of Immortality

About this book

If the soul goes on living, does it also continue to change? F. B. Dowd puts the idea of spiritual evolution at the centre of his argument about immortality.

Writing during an age absorbed by biological evolution, Dowd carries the language of progress into questions of character, memory and the life after death. His conclusions belong to Spiritualist thought, yet the problem is recognisable beyond that movement: what becomes of growth and unfinished responsibility when a life ends? He treats immortality as a process requiring explanation, with death marking one stage in a proposed process of continued development.