ABSTRACT
Although not entirely forgotten, Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933), was once a widely-read poet, Presbyterian preacher, literary critic and Christian apologist. In pages from his best known work of apologetics, he characterized the age of spiritual doubt. His theological liberalism was evident in his acceptance of the principle of freedom of investigation. Yet he also laid the basis for an attack on the pretensions of materialism and rationalism to provide total explanations. Science, he believed, could not comprehend the spiritual sphere.
