IDENTITY
Het gebed van den onwetende
Literature
Work Summary
Het gebed van den onwetende by Multatuli (Eduard Douwes Dekker) is a poem by Multatuli whose speaker questions inherited religious certainties and asks what can truly be known about God. Its closing appeal for an answer from the unknown became one of the work's best-known expressions of religious doubt and intellectual honesty.
Evidence Summary
He uses the line in a direct reflection on God, atheism, love and lived reality.
Strong documented intellectual use of a literary text in his religious thinking.
CONTEXT
Author / Source
Multatuli (Eduard Douwes Dekker)
Work
Het gebed van den onwetende
Years / Period
23 Dec 1881
Van Gogh Relation
Quoted / Copied, Discussed / Commented On
EVIDENCE
Key Quotation
CONNECTIONS
Evidence Trail
23 Dec 1881 — Letter 193
Quoted / Copied · Quoted / discussed
Van Gogh quotes the closing line of Multatuli's Prayer of an unbeliever.
Response: He uses the line in a direct reflection on God, atheism, love and lived reality.
Connection: Strong documented intellectual use of a literary text in his religious thinking.
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Study Subject
Themes
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