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In promoting art as a means of filling the gap left by the absence of Spinoza’s philosophical God and the failures of traditional Christianity, Van Gogh also discovered the limitations of the vocation to which he had dedicated himself. He concluded that in the tension between art and anomie, a new kind of religious sensibility and understanding might emerge. 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