Natural Law in the Spiritual World

About this book

Can the laws that govern a plant or a living body tell us anything about the soul? Henry Drummond believed the apparent gap between nature and spiritual life had been exaggerated.

Writing in an age fascinated by evolution, he carries ideas from biology into Christian theology, asking whether growth, development and dependence follow related principles in both realms. His analogies can be challenged, yet they reveal a Victorian mind determined to reconcile religious conviction with the new scientific vocabulary. The question running through the book is how the invisible might belong to the same universe as the visible.